British Academy Innovation Fellowships Scheme 2026 (up to £120,000) – YOA

Deadline: November 18, 2026

Applications are invited for the British Academy Innovation Fellowships Scheme 2026. The Innovation Fellowships scheme will present funding and assist for established early-profession and mid-profession researchers within the humanities and social sciences to associate with organisations and enterprise within the artistic, cultural, public, non-public and coverage sectors, to tackle challenges that require revolutionary approaches and options.

Through the Innovation Fellowships, their researchers within the SHAPE neighborhood might be supported to create new and deeper hyperlinks past academia, so enabling data mobilisation and translation, in addition to particular person expertise growth.

The Innovation Fellowships scheme has two routes: Route A: Researcher-led and Route B: Policy-led. This name is for Route B with the Academy, working with the FCDO and Cabinet Office.

Areas of Interest

The Academy and the FCDO invite purposes for Fellowships in any of the next areas:

• Applied History
• Critical Infrastructure and European Warfare
• South Asia Geopolitics and Regional Security
• The UK-France Relationship in 2027 and Beyond
• UK National Security Strategy

grant

• The Academy is in a position to provide awards of up to £120,000 for 12 months in length (with Full Economic Costing at 80 per cent).

Eligibility

• Eligible candidates have to be ordinarily resident within the United Kingdom with a present lengthy-time period appointment that can proceed for at the least so long as the interval of the award at a UK-based mostly establishment (e.g., a Higher Education Institution [HEI] or Independent Research Organisation [IRO]).
• They should additionally meet the necessities set out within the ‘Working at and with the FCDO’ part.
• Applications are welcome from early-profession researchers and mid-profession researchers. Note that purposes from unbiased researchers can’t be accepted on this spherical of the scheme.
• Applicants might not maintain a couple of British Academy award of a comparable nature at anyone time.
• Applicants for the Innovation Fellowships Scheme needs to be intending to pursue challenges that may profit from the contribution of Humanities or Social Sciences experience.
• Postgraduate college students are usually not eligible to apply for grant assist from the Academy, and Applicants are requested to affirm within the private particulars part(s) that they aren’t at present working in direction of a PhD, nor awaiting the result of a viva voce examination, nor awaiting the acceptance of any corrections required by the examiners.

Application

The deadline for submissions and UK institutional approval is eighteen November 2026, 17:00 (GMT).

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For extra data, go to British Academy Innovation Fellowships.