The British Academy has announced the applications for Just Transitions within Sectors and Industries Globally Programme to provide UK and internationally-based researchers at any career stage, and active in the humanities and social sciences, with the opportunity to submit proposals for in-depth studies focused on just transitions in sectors and industries globally.
Aims
- Climate change is the existential challenge of their
time. Ensuring just transitions whilst tackling climate change and
biodiversity loss is key to supporting inclusive economies and societies
in the future. Evidence from the social sciences and humanities is
critical to supporting a just transition and how they can shape a positive
future locally, nationally and globally.
- This call focuses specifically on action required in
sectors and industries globally across supply and value chains and they
expect the focus to be on key economic emitters or areas of society that
will help reduce and/or eliminate greenhouse gas emissions. Projects can
and should build on existing or ongoing research, but should ultimately
allow them to establish an evidence base that can be used to answer the
questions:
- How the notion of just transition is being defined and
implemented, in particular by and for whom in these sectors and
industries globally, and how this may be being contested?
- What are the challenges and pinch points socially,
economically and politically that will need to be met for just
transitions to take place at different points in supply and value chains
within these sectors and industries globally?
- How can this process be managed equitably, sustainably
and in a socially just manner?
- What are the options and pathways for communities,
workers, businesses, policymakers and the wider public to manage the
potential disruption and deliver the opportunities of a just transition
in these sectors and industries?
Funding Information
- Awards of five months in duration and up to £100,000
are available.
- Funding can be used to support the time of the
Principal Investigator and Co-Applicants; research assistance; travel,
fieldwork and related expenses; and networking costs. Awards are offered
on an 80% full economic costing basis.
- Projects must begin on 27 October 2021.
Eligibility Criteria
- The lead applicant must be a researcher from the
humanities or social sciences and be based at an eligible UK university or
research institute. The lead applicant must be of postdoctoral status or
above (or have equivalent research experience) and their position must
last at least the duration of the grant funded by the Academy.
- Projects can involve up to three Co-Applicants and must
include at least one named Co-Applicant who will be actively assisting in
the direction and management of at least parts of the project.
Collaboration between researchers in different institutions is encouraged
where appropriate, and they expect to see Co-Applicants based in both the
UK and internationally.
Post Date: 01-Sep-2021