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Call for new Proposals for Academy Research Projects

The Academy has issued a call for proposals for the adoption of new Academy Research Projects. Full details and application forms are available on the Academy's online e-GAP system. The deadline for outline applications is 2 November 2011, for projects to be supported from 1 April 2012.

The scheme essentially offers the kitemarking of academic excellence to major infrastructural projects or research facilities, intended to produce fundamental works of scholarship, in most cases for the use of a variety of disciplines, rather than to produce interpretative works or monographs. Application is made by the project director. The Academy expects to use this opportunity to broaden the current portfolio of projects into a wider subject base. Accordingly, the Projects Committee has identified two broad generic areas from which new proposals will be particularly welcome, namely Social Sciences; and projects which contribute to the Academy’s Languages and Quantitative Skills programme.

The Academy expects to be able to add a small number of new projects to the existing portfolio up to a maximum of five, but there is no specific number of awards available. Further details of existing Academy Research Projects are given below. Enquiries can be sent to projects@britac.ac.uk

Where a web page does not yet exist for a project, links may instead point to a related publication from the British Academy catalogue (where appropriate).

Academy Centenary Research Project

After a rigorous process intended to identify major new and innovative strands of long term research in the humanities and social sciences, which will make a significant impact on the development of scholarship in the first part of the twenty-first century, the Academy adopted the following project in 2003 as an Academy Centenary Research Project.

From Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain

Project Director: Professor R I M Dunbar, FBA
Project Director: Professor C S Gamble, FBA
Project Director: Professor J A J Gowlett
contact: robin.dunbar@anthro.ox.ac.uk
website: http://www.liv.ac.uk/lucy2009/

Academy Research Projects

The Academy grants the title of Academy Research Project to about 40 long-term enterprises, each organised and run by its own Project Committee. These projects aim to make available fundamental research tools of benefit to a wide range of scholars. The following projects are currently supported through this scheme, which offers recognition and limited funding: