British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences
Collaborative Research Awards
The British Academy has made two major international research awards through the Collaborative Research scheme of its Sponsored Institutes and Societies funding programme (BASIS). The successful projects are:
- Islam, Trade and Politics across the Indian Ocean: Interaction between Southeast Asia and Turkey and the Ottoman Empire, 16th-20th centuries – a collaboration between the British Institute at Ankara, the Association for South-East Asian Studies UK, and researchers at Suleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey, Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore; the International Centre for Aceh and Indian Ocean Studies, Indonesia, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia), and Otter Gallery, Chichester University, UK. (£150,000 over 3 years)
- Clerical Authority in Shiite Islam: Culture and learning in the seminaries of Iraq and Iran – research will be carried out by the British Society for Middle Eastern Studies and the British Institute of Persian Studies with contributions from the UK, Europe, Iraq and Iran, including the universities of Cambridge, Durham, Exeter, Oxford, and St Andrews, the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Universita degli Studi Siena, Mufid University and the Iman Khomeini Madrasa (Qum, Iran), Razavi University of the Islamic Sciences (Mashad, Iran), Bahr al-Ulum Institute and Kashif al-Ghita Foundation (Najaf, Iraq), and Imam Sadiq Hawza (Karbala, Iran) as well as in London-based Iranian and Iraqi diaspora seminaries. (£140,000 over 3 years)
The Collaborative Research scheme enables new and innovative research to be carried out by international partners who otherwise would not have opportunities to work together. Providing funding for the first time over a three-year period has meant that substantial, longer term research projects are given certainty of support.
NOTES TO EDITORS
Published:
09 October 2008
More information about BASIS is available from http://www.britac.ac.uk/institutes/index.cfm
Information about how the British Academy supports post-doctoral research in the humanities and social sciences in the UK and overseas is available from: http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/index.cfm