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Grants to work in UK across social sciences, humanities, arts “for people and the economy”
International fellowships have been awarded to researchers in Shape disciplines to work at UK universities, courtesy of the British Academy.
Shape is described by the Academy (whose headquarters are pictured) as a collective name for “social sciences, humanities, and the arts for people and the economy”.
The fellowships, which have been awarded to 12 early career researchers, will last two years at the fellows’ respective institutions.
A total of £2.8 million has been assigned to the fellowships, with each project receiving in the region of £190,000 to £225,000.
The funding also aims to encourage “long-term relationships” through networking alongside the projects.
Each principal investigator also receives a sponsor at their UK institution through the scheme.
Shape projects
Among the research projects being funded are those on the growth of non-religious identity among young people in Turkey, the increasing manifestation of worker insecurity across the world, and variations in the extent to which international peace missions are accepted by locals in host countries.
Social Science Research for Progress in Southern Africa is a project being hosted at University College London, while the University of Bristol is hosting a study of the history of philosophy in the context of the “creative process” of theoretical physics.
Other hosting institutions include Newcastle University, and the universities of Strathclyde, Surrey, Oxford, Cambridge, Birmingham, York and Exeter.