2025/26 IAS Major Project Application
The IAS supports, promotes and grows new and creative interdisciplinary ideas that transform our perspectives in challenging and provocative ways. We provide time, space, and resources to exchange and integrate ideas, knowledge and skills. We are a home to an inclusive, diverse and supportive community of scholars from Durham University and across the world.
The IAS is now launching its call for Major Projects – investment of up to £55,000 per project in major interdisciplinary research ideas across the University. We are inviting applications for Major Projects which should be genuinely interdisciplinary, innovative and ambitious. We encourage projects that have the potential to build towards research of the scale and ambition suited to large programme or centre type funding. All projects must be led by two academics in two different faculties with a wider team ideally involving collaboration across a broad range of disciplines.
MAJOR PROJECTS (to run in academic year 2025/26)
These will be ambitious projects working across at least two disciplines and across faculty boundaries. Successful projects will be supported with:
- Two Durham Academic PIs awarded Christopherson-Knott Fellowships to buy out their time for one term to work on the project
- Two high quality external IAS Fellows to visit Durham for a period of one term to work on the project
- Financial support of up to £3500 for research activities during the project
- Financial support to build activities in the year running up to the project term
- Further financial support to continue the momentum of the work from the project term in the following year
- Access to the facilities and resources of the IAS