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IAS Publishes its Latest Term Card Showcasing Upcoming Events
IAS Publishes its Latest Term Card Showcasing Upcoming Events
The IAS partners with the Charles Wallace India Trust for a new joint Fellowship opportunity in Durham
The IAS is delighted to announce that it has partnered with the Charles Wallace India Trust (CWIT) to fund an additional Fellowship for a scholar from India.
Top Anthropology medal for Nayanika Mookherjee
Political Anthropologist and IAS Co-Director, Professor Nayanika Mookherjee has been honoured with the 2025 Rivers Memorial Medal, one of the highest accolades in Anthropology.
IAS Call for Research Development Projects 2025/26
From today we welcome applications for IAS Research Development Projects (RDPs) to run in academic year, 2025/26. Led by Durham academics, our RDPs are aimed to help and support the early-stage development of ambitious interdisciplinary research ideas and projects. Find out more about how to apply and the application deadline.
Welcome to IAS Epiphany term Fellows
We are delighted to have welcomed our second cohort of 2024/25 Fellows to the IAS to collaborate with colleagues on two major IAS projects: ‘Humans and Numbers’ and ‘The Many Facets of Social Inequality’, as well as other collaborations.
Matariki Institutes of Advanced Study support staff exchange between Matariki partners
Institutes of Advanced Study at four Matariki Universities, including the Durham IAS, are offering their communities as home for academic visitors travelling between Matariki partners.
Call for 2026/27 IAS Major Projects
We are now launching our call for 2026/27 Major Projects. We are inviting applications for Major Projects which should be genuinely interdisciplinary, innovative and ambitious. We encourage projects that have the potential to build towards research of the scale and ambition suited to large programme or centre type funding. All projects must be led by two academics in two different faculties with a wider team ideally involving collaboration across a broad range of disciplines.
New Zealand reporter Pete McKenzie announced as 2025 Sir Harry Evans Global Fellow
Pete McKenzie has been awarded the 2025 Sir Harry Evans Global Fellowship in Investigative Journalism.
Call for Development Projects 2024/25
In addition to support for large scale projects, we remain very keen to assist research conversations, workshops, and network building which have the potential to develop into major projects in the future. We therefore invite colleagues to apply for small scale funding (up-to £1500) to help the early-stage development of ambitious interdisciplinary projects during 2024/25.
A welcome return of IAS Fellows
The IAS welcomed its Michaelmas Fellows to Durham earlier this week to work with Durham colleagues on two major IAS projects.
Issue 13 of Transformations, the IAS newsletter, is out now
Find out about current, and future funding calls, as well ongoing collaborations, news from former Fellows and major IAS projects, and forthcoming events through our Term Card
IAS Director takes on new President role
The IAS is delighted to share the wonderful news that the Director of the Institute, Professor Alex Easton, has been elected as the next president of the European Brain and Behaviour Society (EBBS).
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