Deadline: 28 January 2025
The UK Research and Innovation awaits entries for its New Generation Thinkers Program as it offers five early career researchers the opportunity to be ‘researchers in residence’ where they will work with programme makers at BBC Radio 4 and produce a piece of writing to be recorded for radio.
If selected, you’ll also take part in learning and development opportunities with AHRC around working with the media, engaging the public with research and how to work with policy makers. You’ll be an up-and-coming early career researcher with a passion for sharing ideas with the largest possible audience.
Topics
- The main topic areas are:
- archaeology
- classics
- cultural and museum studies
- development studies
- history
- information and communication technologies
- law and legal studies
- library and information studies
- philosophy
- political science and international studies
- theology, divinity and religion
- dance
- design
- drama and theatre studies
- media
- music
- languages and literature
- linguistics
- visual arts
Scopes
- They are looking for applications from a diversity of backgrounds, research disciplines and institutions, particularly candidates who can demonstrate:
- how one area of their research could make a strong, clearly expressed and engaging piece of writing for BBC radio. The scheme will match researchers with programmes or BBC units, so they are looking for discussion ideas for those programmes which draw upon your own research or your knowledge of trends in your subject area
- how this research could have the potential to either change public opinion or influence policy
- creativity, originality and the potential to talk and write about other areas within the arts and humanities in an accessible and interesting manner, particularly to a wider audience
- that they are comfortable talking and writing about ideas from beyond their own research area in an accessible and interesting way
- a wide range of interests through their review and description of their current research
- high standards of scholarship: clear explanations in interesting, well-written, jargon-free language, that is editorially and stylistically suitable for a BBC audience
Eligibility Criteria
- To apply for the New Generation Thinkers scheme, you must be:
- a UK resident
- over the age of 18
- currently working or studying at a UK research organisation that is eligible to receive funding from UKRI.
- studying a relevant area of research.
- You must also be either:
- currently studying for your first PhD and having made considerable progress on your research, for example within one year of submission
- within eight years of the award of your first PhD, excluding any period of career break such as parental leave, caring responsibilities, health reasons, or reasons consequent upon the COVID-19 pandemic
- within six years of your first academic appointment at an organisation that is eligible to receive funding from UKRI, excluding any period of career break such as parental leave, caring responsibilities, health reasons, or reasons consequent upon the COVID-19 pandemic. This must be a paid contract of employment, either full-time or part-time, which lists research or teaching as the primary function, including research assistantships
Ineligibility Criteria
- You cannot apply if:
- you work for the BBC, AHRC or UKRI
- you are a senior academic
For more information, visit UK Research and Innovation.
