This pre-deadline webinar for prospective applicants to the British Academy and Nuffield Foundation Understanding Communities research and policy innovation workshop is an opportunity to meet the team, and to ask questions about the aims of the collaboration and the practicalities of the application process, workshop and research funding that will be available.

The workshop is at the heart of a new research and policy collaboration between the British Academy and the Nuffield Foundation, designed to identify practical solutions to support local communities in the UK. Applications to the workshop are open until 4 June 2021. The collaboration will award at least £500,000 in research funding, with grants ranging in value from £20,000 to £200,000 for projects of up to two years, during which the British Academy and the Nuffield Foundation will support a programme of synthesis, dissemination and engagement across projects to promote understanding and learning between funded research teams and engage relevant stakeholders in the wider body of evidence produced.

ABOUT THE BRITISH ACADEMY
The British Academy is the UK’s national academy for the humanities and social sciences. We mobilise these disciplines to understand the world and shape a brighter future. From artificial intelligence to climate change, from building prosperity to improving well-being – today’s complex challenges can only be resolved by deepening our insight into people, cultures and societies. We invest in researchers and projects across the UK and overseas, engage the public with fresh thinking and debates, and bring together scholars, government, business and civil society to influence policy for the benefit of everyone.

ABOUT THE NUFFIELD FOUNDATION
The Nuffield Foundation is an independent charitable trust with a mission to advance educational opportunity and social well-being. It funds research that informs social policy, primarily in Education, Welfare and Justice, and provides opportunities for young people to develop skills and confidence in science and research. The Nuffield Foundation is the founder and co-funder of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory and the Ada Lovelace Institute. Find out more at www.nuffieldfoundation.org and follow us on Twitter @NuffieldFound

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