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Seed funding for International Knowledge Exchange

16 May 2023

The British Academy and Royal Irish Academy announce seed funding for early-career researchers to promote international knowledge exchange

The British Academy and Royal Irish Academy have announced seed funding for eight SHAPE research projects as part of their joint Knowledge Frontiers Symposium.

Funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, the symposium aimed to support the development of international research collaborations between early career researchers in these islands. Across two days, the event focused on how the SHAPE disciplines can address challenges facing humanity and the cultural forces defining the future.

Seed funding has been awarded to symposium participants to support long-term collaboration. Successful research projects include those looking at cultural and linguistic minorities and land use in farming communities.

The 2023 British Academy and Royal Irish Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium awardees are:

  • ‘Compare and Contrast How Nationalist-separatist Parties Today in Quebec, Catalonia, the Basque Country and Nothern Ireland Engage with Nation-state Parliaments in Canada, the UK, Republic of Ireland and Spain’ – Dr Thomas Leahy, Cardiff University; Dr Matthew Barnfield, University of Essex; Dr Iker Erdocia, Dublin City University
  • ‘Land-use Futures in Farming Communities in the UK and Ireland’ – Dr Stuart Henderson, Ulster University; Dr Brenda McNally, Dublin City University; Dr Rosie Everett, Northumbria University; Dr Zainab Oyetunde-Usman, Rothamsted Research
  • ‘Joint Comparative Study of the Political Economy of Emission Reductions of the Livestock Industry in the United Kingdon and Ireland’ – Dr Zainab Oyetunde-Usman, Rothamsted Research; Dr Danny Marks, Dublin City University
  • ‘The Lifecycle of Cardboard, the Most Quotidian, Ubiquitous of Materials, and its Implications for Environmental Histories and Futures’ – Dr Antonia Thomas, University of the Highlands and Islands; Dr Lucy Razzall, University of Cambridge; Dr Hannah Boast, University College Dublin
  • ‘Vocabularies of Time’ – Dr Daniel Ibrahim Abdalla, University of Liverpool; Dr Ailbhe McDaid, University College Cork; Dr Kasia Mika-Bresolin, Queen Mary University of London
  • ‘Thinking Through Lichen’ – Dr Jade French, Loughborough University; Dr Antonia Thomas, University of the Highlands and Islands; Dr Sarah Bezan, University College Cork
  • ‘A Study of Linguistic and Cultural Minorities within Ireland and the United Kingdom Law, Policy and Practise’ – Dr Elizabeth A Faulkner Keele University; Dr Iker Erdocia, Dublin City University; Dr Mary Robinson, Newcastle University; Dr Ailbhe McDaid, University College Cork
  • ‘The Apocalyptic Quotidian: The Everyday Crises of Environments’ – Dr Daniel Ibrahim Abdalla, University of Liverpool; Dr Sarah Bezan, University College Cork; Dr Hannah Boast, University College Dublin; Dr Lucy Razzall, University of Cambridge, Dr Kasia Mika-Bresolin, Queen Mary University of London; Dr Antonia Thomas, University of the Highlands and Islands; Dr Jade French, Loughborough University.

 

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