The final call for bids to the University’s Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) will be closing at 12:00 on Monday 20 March 2017.
For an application form, please contact Leigh Purdie at: [email protected]
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. All bids must be based on funded social science research and lead to measurable non-academic impact.
The mechanisms that can be funded through the IAA are:
- Knowledge Transfer through People – Flexible secondments, both outwards and inwards to and from industry, third sector and government.
- Impact Acceleration projects – Projects to facilitate the uptake of knowledge and innovation originating from the research base targeting strategic stakeholders including industry, third sector and government departments or agencies (both nationally and internationally).
This final funding call will give priority to applications in the following areas in order to ensure that we broaden the reach of the IAA funding at the University:
- Principal Investigators (PIs) who have not previously applied for IAA funding.
- New collaborations, either new PIs collaborating with an organisation currently engaging with the University or new organisations collaborating with the University.
- Flexible secondments.
Collaborative partners and impact do not need to be UK-based. The funding for this final call is to support both impact acceleration projects and secondments.
This call will close at 12:00 on Monday 20 March 2017.
Awards for this call have to be spent by 28 February 2018.
For an application form, please contact Leigh Purdie at: [email protected]
