UKRI: Support knowledge exchange for European humanities research

Overview

Who can apply

You must:

• hold a PhD or an equivalent qualification or experience
• have knowledge of the European knowledge exchange landscape
• be based at an established organisation with the capacity to undertake high quality research.

Your institution must:

• possess an existing in-house capacity to host a grant and to carry out research that materially extends and enhances the national or international research base
• be able to demonstrate an independent capability to support the conduct of the specified work.

Lead institutions that are not currently recognised to hold UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funding will have to complete UKRI due diligence checks before any grant can be confirmed. In these instances, it is likely to take approximately eight weeks for the appropriate checks to be undertaken before the grant could start.

The research organisation may be based anywhere in the world. However, experience of the European knowledge exchange landscape is required.

For UK applicants, before applying for funding, check the Eligibility of your organisation.

UKRI has introduced new role types for funding opportunities being run on the new UKRI Funding Service.

For full details, visit Eligibility as an individual.

There are no restrictions regarding project lead’s affiliation with a Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) project. For example, it is permissible for a project lead to be affiliated with a HERA project or not.

Job sharing between two applicants is permissible. If there is a job sharing application, only one of the applicants will hold project lead status on the grant funding system.

Scope

The knowledge exchange facilitator’s role is to strengthen the overall cohesion of the HERA Crisis joint research programme and coordinate knowledge exchange efforts and activities at the programme level including organising kick off and closing programme conferences.

As the knowledge exchange facilitator, you are expected to be an internationally well-positioned researcher with relevant expertise and knowledge of the programme themes and supported by a research assistant.

The knowledge exchange facilitator will create added value, increasing the impact of the programme, the projects funded within it and benefit the wider humanities network.

The knowledge exchange facilitator will be expected to regularly report to HERA governance structures about the recent activities and progress of the programme. This includes:

• engaging with project monitoring and impact assessment activities not led by the knowledge exchange facilitator
• attending meetings of the knowledge exchange group and HERA Network Board to discuss this progress
• producing a final report for the HERA Network Board to approve.

Aim

The Knowledge Exchange Facilitator will structure their work around two key objectives: strengthening the overall cohesion of the HERA Crisis programme and coordinating knowledge exchange efforts and activities.

The knowledge Exchange Facilitator (KEF) will strengthen the overall cohesion of the HERA Crisis programme by:

• bringing together the various teams from the transnational research projects to work synergistically, and to gain a greater holistic understanding of contributions to the broad Crisis themes while setting the theme within the context of values of the humanities
• developing sub and meta themes across the transnational research projects and facilitating the cross-pollination of research perspectives and outputs for advocacy of the humanities-led research
• establish and strengthen links between projects and relevant arts and humanities research infrastructures and support the develop of the new EU partnerships and stakeholder engagement.

Duration

The fixed duration of this award is three and a half years.

The project must start by 6 January 2025.

Further information including further aims and what they will fund is available on the website