Five more ESRC Impact Acceleration Awards for Social Sciences
The fourth round of the University’s ESRC-funded Impact Acceleration Account has funded five Social Science projects to a total of £75,000
The University of Bristol’s ESRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) has been designed to enable rapid response to knowledge exchange and impact development opportunities, usually in collaboration with non-academic partners. The funding available ranges from £100+ for Impact Travel Awards, to £20,000 for Impact Projects and Knowledge Exchange Secondments.
See more details at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/red/industry/esrc-iaa/
The projects awarded in this fourth round of funding are listed below. The full list of projects awarded to date is on the website at http://www.bristol.ac.uk/red/industry/esrc-iaa/esrciaaawards.html
The next deadline for proposal submissions is 16 September 2015.
If you are a researcher at Bristol with an idea or project that would benefit from funding by the Impact Acceleration Account, do talk to your School Research or Impact Director, and contact Andrew Wray, Frances Frith or Nikki Hicks in RED's Alliance Development Group.
If you work outside the University and are seeking a collaborator or research partner, do contact Andrew Wray, Frances Frith or Nikki Hicks in RED's Alliance Development Group.
New awardees
- Sarah Childs (SPAIS), The UK Parliament: A Gender Sensitive Institution - a Knowledge Exchange Secondment project
- Emily Baughan (Humanities) , Save the Children Past, Present and Future: Policy and Proximity to Political Power - an Exploratory Impact project
- Eric Herring (SPAIS), Somali First – Promoting Somali-led Reconstruction - an Impact project
- Shailen Nandy (Policy Studies), Aiding Poverty Data and Analysis Capacity Development in the Pacific - an Impact project
- Elina Steinerte (Law), Developing the strategy and practical tools for the Dutch NPM’s engagement in situations when the Dutch prisons are leased by foreign governments to hold prisoners under their jurisdiction - an Impact project