The final call for bids to the University’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) is now open, please note the closing date has been brought forward to Friday 14 October 2016.
The ESRC IAA supports social science knowledge exchange activities with non-academic partners. It is intended to create impact beyond the academic world, helping to shift perceptions and understandings of important current issues to influence policy and practice.
The types of activities that can be funded include:
- placements
- policy or evidence seminars
- activity to translate research evidence for use by policy makers and practitioners
- co-produced research activity which aims to shape research agendas in order to address current policy and practice issues with quality research
- building sustainable relationships with non-academic partners
- training to increase knowledge and experience of Knowledge Exchange (KE) and impact (to be targeted at different career stages as appropriate)
- support for KE social science resource and infrastructure
All bids must be based on funded social science research and lead to measurable non-academic impact.
This call closes on Friday 14 October 2016. Please note this date has been brought forward.
Collaborative partners and impact do not need to be UK-based. The funding available for this final call is £80k to support both impact acceleration projects and secondments. Awards have to be spent by March 2018.
For an application form please contact Leigh Purdie at [email protected]
