AHRC Impact Acceleration Account 2022-2025
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) has awarded the University a £450K Impact Acceleration Account 2022-2025, which is a block grant to accelerate the impact of research.
Call currently open. See March 2024 Open IAA Call.
Previous Calls
As part of the AHRC IAA 2022-2025 programme, we ran the first open call in November 2022. This was followed by an interdisciplinary call across AHRC and EPSRC remits. There are no funding calls currently open.
Though subject to change, you can get a sense of the application process by reviewing the guidance and application forms below.
Previous AHRC funding is not a requirement but projects must involved collaboration with a non-academic partner. 51% of project activity must fit within one or more of the arts and humanities disciplines (see page 92 of the AHRC Research Funding Guide for a list of disciplines). Funding ranges from ~£5,000 to ~£25,000 and no idea is too small.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss a proposed project, please contact us on ahrciaa@lancaster.ac.uk
What is an Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)?
IAAs allow us to respond to impact opportunities in more flexible, responsive and creative ways. They provide us with agility and flexibility to make decisions about how to invest IAA funding in ways that best suit our institutional strategies and opportunities. The IAA funding builds capacity and creates opportunities for the social sciences to work across disciplines to progress research outputs and outcomes towards impact.
Our aims
- AHRC IAA funding allows us to respond to arts and humanities knowledge exchange opportunities in more flexible, responsive and creative ways
- The IAA introduces agility and flexibility for us to take strategic-level decisions about how to invest the funding in ways that best suit our strategies and opportunities
- It includes the opportunity to work across disciplines and leverage other funding to progress research outputs and outcomes towards impact
Our objectives
- To strengthen knowledge exchange through culture change, including through the development of skills for Knowledge Exchange activity
- To strengthen research organisation and researcher – research user engagement
- To support knowledge exchange – including at early stages of progressing research outputs and outcomes to the point when they can be supported by other funding
- To support new, innovative and imaginative approaches to KE and impact, including processes that enable “fast failure” and appropriate learning
- To support activities that enable impact to be achieved in an effective and timely manner, including secondments and people exchange