The Fellowships will cover the natural sciences, medical and health sciences, engineering, humanities, social sciences and the arts with applications made via UK-based institutions. The scheme is receiving £3 million of government funding from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. The Nuffield Foundation, an independent charitable trust, is contributing £0.5 million towards the scheme. The call will be open on a rolling basis with monthly submission windows. The first submission window runs until 5pm (UK time) on Wednesday 4 May 2022.

The first priority of the scheme will be as a response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has exposed Ukrainian-based researchers to direct threat. We wish to open the scheme more widely when possible. The scheme aims to complement and be additional to the work already being done by UK institutions, including through their existing cooperation with Cara as members of the Cara Universities Network, enabling them to provide additional two-year fellowships to researchers at risk with funding of circa £37,000 per annum. Queries are welcome to researchersatrisk@thebritishacademy.ac.uk.

We have also just announced the latest awards from our Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research Projects programme. These nine new awards respond to the question ‘what is a good city?’. We have also launched the next call in this programme. The focus is interdisciplinary projects involving both the humanities and the social sciences on the theme of global (dis)order. We are interested in projects of an interdisciplinary nature that focus on the deeper and more long-term issues of global (dis)order. We expect awards under the programme to engage deeply with the values, heritage, justice, languages, vocabularies, traditions, cultures, literatures, histories and self-understandings that are critical to an effective approach on this topic and their historical development. Critically, we wish to support research that brings to bear perspectives on global (dis)order from across all of the regions of the world and across different languages internationally. Awards are for up to £200,000 for 24 months in duration. The deadline for submissions is 5pm (UK time) on Wednesday 19 October 2022.