British Academy Evidence-informed Policymaking Grants 2025 (up to £150,000)

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About British Academy Evidence-informed Policymaking Grants

This programme is part of the £337m International Science Partnerships Fund, which is designed to enable potential and foster prosperity. It puts research and innovation at the heart of the UK's international relationships, supporting UK researchers and innovators to work with peers around the world on the major themes of our time.

It is managed by the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology and delivered by a consortium of the UK's leading research and innovation bodies.

This call is therefore aiming to respond to questions, such as the following:

• What is needed to build structural, political and social conditions that value and support effective evidence use in policymaking?
• How do contextual factors and the political economy of evidence shape the substance of policies and the parameters regarding who is included or excluded, and who benefits more or less?
• How are policy outcomes (positively or negatively) affected when research evidence is used?

• Sponsor Organisation: The British Academy

Benefits of British Academy Evidence-informed Policymaking Grants

• The Academy is able to offer awards of up to £150,000 for 12 months in duration. The Academy expects to make at least 20 awards.

British Academy Evidence-informed Policymaking Grants Requirements

Eligible Countries

• This call supports ODA-eligible international collaborations between researchers, policymakers and practitioners in the UK and those in Brazil, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kenya, Malaysia, Philippines, South Africa, Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam and/or Least Developed Countrieson evidence-informed policymaking. Applications that are not considered ODA-eligible will not be taken forward through the assessment process.

This programme will support grants in the following areas to develop this evidence base further and applications can consider interventions across one or more of a variety of mechanisms of change, including awareness and attitudes, mutual understanding and agreement, communication of and access to, interaction between policymakers and researchers, skills development, and/or structure and processes related to evidence-informed policymaking:

• Research related to how evidence use theory and research has been implemented in practice.
• Research or research-based activities related to knowledge systemsstrengthening and/or organisational change to support evidence use in practice.
• Knowledge systems strengthening and/or organisational change to support evidence use in practice.

The Academy is looking to support awards that work in the following fields:

• Environment, Sustainability & Nature
• Transformative Technologies
• Health & Wellbeing
• Cities & Urbanisation
• Global Order, Geopolitics and International Affairs

Successful awards will be required to work closely with the Academy in two respects. They are:

• Engaging with and involving Academy staff in the progress and development of their projects, including meetings with the Academy and the other grants supported through the programme.
• Commit to work with the Academy and wider stakeholders through meetings and other engagements on appropriate measures and indicators for assessing evidence use in policymaking through the tracking of progress and evaluation initiatives. This includes participating in a meeting at the start of the award to discuss and agree the measures and indicators to be used across the projects supported.

Application Date and Process

Applications can only be submitted online using the British Academy’s online Flexi-Grant® Grant Management System (GMS) system.

Scheme Guidance

You can view further details about the scheme and how to submit an application on the scheme guidance page.

Application Deadline

19 February, 2025

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