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Call for 2026/27 IAS Major Projects

20 November 2024
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We are now launching our call for 2026/27 Major Projects. 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. 

 Please see our timeline below.

  • Deadline for one-page initial outline proposals – midday Thursday 16 January 2025 (online process here);
  • Project PIs to attend the IAS on either Tuesday 21, Wednesday 22 or Thursday 23 January 2025 to discuss their project and ideas;
  • Full application process opens on 27 January 2025. Application deadline midday 20 March 2025;
  • Project outcomes announced to applicants on 09 April 2025. Successful applications will be invited to consider and submit Fellowship nominations. Nomination deadline midday 23 May 2025.

Full call details can be found here.

A drop-in session will also be held at the IAS on Monday 03 February between 10am and 12pm in Cosin’s Hall for any colleague who wishes to come along to the IAS and discuss the call in-person and a full application submission. 

Durham Colleagues interested in developing project applications are welcome to contact the IAS Director, Professor Alex Easton alexander.easton@durham.ac.uk) or the IAS Co-Directors: Professor Patrick Zuk, Arts & Humanities (patrick.zuk@durham.ac.uk); Professor Gretchen Larsen, Business (gretchen.larsen@durham.ac.uk); Professor Nayanika Mookherjee, Social Sciences and Health (nayanika.mookherjee@durham.ac.uk); and Dr Margarita Staykova, Science (margarita.staykova@durham.ac.uk).

Enquiries can also be made to the IAS Manager, Linda Crowe (ias.manager@durham.ac.uk).