Eight interdisciplinary projects were awarded funding through the autumn 2023 joint IAA call across the arts & humanities and engineering & physical sciences.
EPSRC and AHRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) Open Call - Now open
Funding to promote impact acceleration projects across arts & humanities and engineering & physical sciences. This call is not interdisciplinary but there is a single application process across both the AHRC and EPSRC remits. See: March 2024 Open IAA Call
'Light Up Lancaster’ Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) Call - Now open
An IAA call is currently open that enables research to reach and benefit audiences at a light art festival, featuring as part of 'Light Up Lancaster 2024’ (LUL24) an after-dark multi-artform light arts trail across the city. See: AHRC/EPSRC IAA Light Up Lancaster Call
Our Research Council IAAs
Click on the logo to find out more about each of Lancaster's Impact Acceleration Accounts.
What is an Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)?
IAAs are strategic awards provided to institutions to support knowledge exchange (KE) and impact from their research. IAAs allow Research Organisations to respond to opportunities in flexible, responsive and creative ways, aligned to their institutional strategies and opportunities. Responsibility for management of IAAs is devolved to the institution to operate tailored schemes to facilitate the realisation of impact. The awards are intended to add value to existing funding and take advantage of new or unforeseen opportunities. IAAs are one of the funding mechanisms for supporting knowledge exchange, innovation and impact at UK Research and Innovation.
Responsive Mode IAA Applications
Across all of Lancaster’s Impact Acceleration Accounts, we try to be as flexible as possible in meeting the needs of Principle Investigators and their project ideas. Typically, we average a formal ‘Call’ for project applications twice in any twelve-month period and can receive as many as thirty submissions to each.
However, we recognise that, on occasion, either an opportunity arises which is time-bound such that it could not wait for the next ‘Call’ or there were valid reasons why the deadline for the previous ‘Call’ may have been missed. In such cases we are prepared to consider a very limited number of applications under our ‘Responsive Mode’, but this is under continual review based on our available IAA budget. For further details, see IAA Responsive Mode.
Collaborations that count
Listen to Lancaster University's Impact Acceleration Account managers and some of our project researchers and partners discuss the role of Impact Acceleration Account funding.
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Contact Us
For more information about our UKRI Impact Acceleration Funds click on the relevant logo at the top of the page or contact Mark Bowen (EPSRC) or Jamie Hodge (EPSRC & AHRC)