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Apply for up to £20,000 AHRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) funding to spark innovative collaborations with arts, cultural and heritage partners.
There are three Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Impact Acceleration Account funding streams available.
The purpose of this funding is to support UCL academics with knowledge exchange, impact and innovation projects with arts, creative, cultural and heritage organisations.
We’re particularly keen to fund collaborations which bring together academic expertise from different faculties with external partners to create new methodologies, models and ways of working. Ideally, these will have the potential to be applied - and make an impact - nationally and internationally.
This funding is designed to accelerate the impact of UCL’s research outside academia. It cannot be used to fund:
- primary research activity
- public engagement activities (such as an event or exhibition) where there is no two-way knowledge exchange with an external organisation.
Apply between 14 October and 8 November 2024.
Art Futures seed funding (£10,000)
Art Futures connects artists, creative organisations and researchers from across UCL to explore seismic shifts in technology, funding models, and audience behaviours in the arts sector.
This seed funding enables researchers to collaborate with industry by enabling an initial project that will grow and have long-term impact. Outcomes might include new initiatives, partnerships, programmes, products, services, tools, frameworks or support resources in fields of art, law and technology.
The funding is for UCL academic staff at any stage of their careers working with an arts, technology or legal sector partner on one of the below Art Futures programme themes:
- Art tech innovation
- Art and artificial intelligence (AI)
- Skills/education
- Law and intellectual property (IP)
- Art markets
The minimum amount you can apply for is £3,000. The maximum amount you can apply for is £10,000.
Application for this funding should be made through Innovation & Enterprise’s regular Knowledge exchange and innovation funding scheme.
Please add ‘[Art Futures]’ to the start of your project title when you apply, to indicate that your application is for Art Futures seed funding.
Secondments (£15,000)
With this funding, you can put your research into practice outside academia by seconding a UCL staff member or doctoral student into a non-academic partner organisation.
The organisation could be a business, charity, NGO, public sector body or arts of cultural organisation based in the UK. The secondee will need to work on a project that will accelerate the impact of AHRC’s research portfolio and share expertise.
Application for this funding should be made through Innovation & Enterprise’s regular Secondments funding scheme.
Note: the maximum you can apply for is £15,000 (not £20,000 as indicated for EPSRC secondments).
General knowledge exchange funding (£20,000)
If your project does not fit the Art Futures seed funding or secondments models, you may be able to apply for funding from the existing Knowledge exchange and innovation funding scheme.