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The British Academy announces 17 recipients of the 2024 Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research Projects
19 Apr 2024
Today, the British Academy has announced the 17 successful recipients of the Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research Projects 2024 awards.
This programme is funded by the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation & Technology with additional support from the UK’s International Science Partnerships Fund managed by the Department for Science, Innovation & Technology.
This round of the International Interdisciplinary Research Projects is supporting international collaborations between early career researchers in the UK and elsewhere on internationally focused research projects of an interdisciplinary nature involving the humanities and social sciences.
Professor Simon Goldhill, Foreign Secretary and Vice-President of the British Academy, said:
“We are thrilled to announce this new cohort of award holders. The projects funded under this programme will facilitate original ideas and policy-relevant insights from across the SHAPE disciplines, showcasing the importance of interdisciplinary and international collaboration. I very much look forward to seeing these projects develop over the next 24 months.”
The 2024 Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research Projects awardees are:
Please note: Awards are arranged alphabetically by surname of the grant recipient. The institution is that given at the time of application.
Dr Ipshita Basu
University of Westminster
Planetary Health and Relational Wellbeing: Investigating the Ecological and Health Dimensions of Adivasi Lifeworlds in India
Dr Caitlin Bawn
King's College London
Marginalised Women at Risk: experiences and impacts of hyper-precarity and the growth of digitisation and AI in rural communities
Dr Neema Begum
University of Nottingham
Inter-Minority Coalition or Conflict? Identity Formation and Inter-Minority Relations between Asian and Black communities in the UK and US
Dr Radhika Borde
University of Leeds
Reframing the Urban via Southern Spatial Religiosities: Mapping Sufi Geographies in the Indian National Capital Region
Dr Joanna Demaree-Cotton
University of Oxford
Gendered Conceptions of Autonomous Consent: A Philosophical, Psychological and Linguistic Investigation Across Cultures
Dr Isabelle Gapp
University of Aberdeen
From the Floe Edge: Visualising Local Sea Ice Change in Kinngait, Nunavut
Dr Jamelia Harris
University of Warwick
Colonial legacies and the labour market in the English-speaking Caribbean
Mrs Catarina Heeckt
London School of Economics and Political Science
Towards post-growth cities: the cultural politics of mobility transitions in Barcelona and London
Dr Pauline Heinrichs
King's College London
The Production of Climate Justice: Towards Critical Actuarial Science in Loss and Damage Negotiations
Dr Max Lacey-Barnacle
University of Sussex
Building 'common' wealth through just transitions: the role of anchor institutions in supporting community-led decarbonisation in Canada and the UK
Dr Farah Mihlar
Oxford Brookes University
Sustaining struggles and working towards transformative change – women activists and transitional justice in Lebanon and Sri Lanka
Dr Rishika Mukhopadhyay
University of Southampton
Reframing sacred urbanism: India-UK diasporic worlding and nationalist heritage revival
Dr William Otchere-Darko
Newcastle University
Energising Landscapes: lands, livelihoods, and energy infrastructures in Ghana
Dr Katherine Roscoe
University of Liverpool
Ethical Digital Public Histories: Prisoners and the legacy of enslavement 1817-1970
Dr Mike Slaven
University of Lincoln
Colonialism and Migration in Global Perspective
Dr Laurence Williams
University of Sussex
Fact-checking: epistemologies, public perceptions and automated futures
Dr Ruth Wilson
James Hutton Institute
INTANGIBLE: Understanding the socio-cultural dimensions of island population change in Scotland, England, Canada and Japan
The awards listed are those for the 2024 Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research Projects. Previous award announcements can be found on the Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research Projects past awards page.
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