Short overview
Building research and institutional strength is difficult generally and particularly so in and on areas of conflict and crisis. This programme aims to address these deficiencies by developing both researcher and institutional strength in a simultaneous and mutually reinforcing fashion.
The deadline for submissions and institutional approval is Wednesday 20 January 2021 at 5pm (UK time).
What the fund will achieve
The chairs are envisaged as bilateral research chairs, helping to develop networks, mobility and exchange between institutions. Applications are welcome from institutions in the Middle East, Eastern Africa, Western Africa, Myanmar and Bangladesh (this includes relevantly sited British International Research Institutes).
The wider FCDO ERICC programme, of which this call is a part, is intended to work in 6 focal countries/regions, which have been provisionally identified as Northern Nigeria, South Sudan, Myanmar and the Syria region (comprising Jordan, Lebanon and Syria). The bilateral research chairs can be sited in these FCDO ERICC focal countries/regions but also more widely as set out above.
The prospective research chair applicant will, in collaboration with their identified institutions in these regions/countries, work with a partner institution anywhere in the world to submit their applications for the bilateral research chair jointly.
The bilateral research chairs are required to add significant value to the research and institutional strength of the institutions involved, and to play an active role in developing the research capacity, profile and sustainability of the institutions and their researchers. The British Academy views the bilateral research chairs as an opportunity to foster collegial research cultures, develop the next generation of research, and embed effective and long-lasting institutional practices for the benefit of education research on conflict and crisis specifically and for the chairs’ institutions more broadly.
Three awards of up to £555,000 over 3 years are available.