The Talent Development Awards are available to promote the acquisition and advancement of skills in relevant areas by UK-based researchers, supporting innovative research methods, be that through skills development, collaboration or dissemination. The aim of the scheme is to enable researchers to build their skills and capacities in core areas to develop their current and future research.
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Benefits
- raising the quality of advanced quantitative skills and/or data science skills used in research, including digital methods;
- creating new opportunities for knowledge and skills to exchange across disciplines and sectors; and
- promoting language learning and the transferable skills that language learning provides.
Requirements
Eligible Lead Applicants must:
- Be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom;
- Be holding a current long-term appointment at a UK-based Higher Education Institution (HEI) or Independent Research Organisation (IRO), which will continue for the full duration of the proposed award;
- Be intending to pursue original, independent research within the Humanities or Social Sciences;
- There are no quotas for individual subject areas and no thematic priorities within the scheme.
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Application Deadline
October 7, 2026How To Apply
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