The British Academy 2025 Evidence-informed Policymaking Grants (Up to £150,000 )

The British Academy is inviting proposals related to evidence-informed policy-making in Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam and/or Least Developed Countries.

This programme is part of the £337m International Science Partnerships Fund, which is designed to enable potential and foster prosperity. It puts research and innovation at the heart of the UK’s international relationships, supporting UK researchers and innovators to work with peers around the world on the major themes of our time. It is managed by the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology and delivered by a consortium of the UK’s leading research and innovation bodies.

• Table of Content
• About British Academy
• British Academy Fellowship
• Aim and Benefits of British Academy Fellowship
• Requirements for British Academy Fellowship Qualification
• Application Deadline
• How to Apply

About British Academy

The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical, Philosophical and Philological Studies is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It was established in 1902 and received its royal charter in the same year. It is now a fellowship of more than 1,000 leading scholars spanning all disciplines across the humanities and social sciences... continue reading

British Academy Fellowship

• Category Fellowship
• SponsorBritish Academy
• City to study -
• School to study -
• Course to study Not specified
• Application Deadline February 19, 2025

Aim and Benefits of British Academy Fellowship

Aim The aim of this call is to support ODA-eligible international collaborations between researchers, policymakers and practitioners in the UK and those in Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam and/or Least Developed Countries on evidence-informed policymaking. Applications that are not considered ODA-eligible will not be taken forward through the assessment process.

This call is therefore aiming to respond to questions, such as the following:

• What is needed to build structural, political and social conditions that value and support effective evidence use in policymaking?
• How do contextual factors and the political economy of evidence shape the substance of policies and the parameters regarding who is included or excluded, and who benefits more or less?
• How are policy outcomes (positively or negatively) affected when research evidence is used?

Benefits:  

The Academy is able to offer awards of up to£150,000 for 12 months in duration. The Academy expects to make at least 20 awards.

Requirements for British Academy Fellowship Qualification

This programme will support grants in the following areas to develop this evidence base further and applications can consider interventions across one or more of a variety of mechanisms of change, including awareness and attitudes, mutual understanding and agreement, communication of and access to, interaction between policymakers and researchers, skills development, and/or structure and processes related to evidence-informed policymaking:

• Research related to how evidence use theory and research has been implemented in practice.
• Research or research-based activities related to knowledge systems strengthening and/or organisational change to support evidence use in practice.
• Knowledge systems strengthening and/or organisational change to support evidence use in practice.

The Academy is looking to support awards that work in the following fields:

• Environment, Sustainability & Nature
• Transformative Technologies
• Health & Wellbeing
• Cities & Urbanisation
• Global Order, Geopolitics and International Affairs

Successful awards will be required to work closely with the Academy in two respects. They are:

• Engaging with and involving Academy staff in the progress and development of their projects, including meetings with the Academy and the other grants supported through the programme.
• Commit to work with the Academy and wider stakeholders through meetings and other engagements on appropriate measures and indicators for assessing evidence use in policymaking through the tracking of progress and evaluation initiatives. This includes participating in a meeting at the start of the award to discuss and agree the measures and indicators to be used across the projects supported.

Application Deadline

February 19, 2025

How to Apply

Interested and qualified? Go to British Academy on britishacademy.flexigrant.com to apply

Applications must be submitted by 19 February 2025, 17:00 (GMT).

Applications can only be submitted online using the British Academy’s online Flexi-Grant® Grant Management System (GMS) system.

You can view further details about the scheme and how to submit an application on our scheme guidance page.

For more details visit: The British Academy website.