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We are committed to supporting and developing exciting ideas with potential. 

In each year 2025/26 and 2026/27 four projects will run, two in each term (Michaelmas; and Epiphany).


Our projects next year are:

  1. Interest in Cattle: value, risk and security in eastern and southern Africa;
  2. Confronting Climate Apartheid: law, economy, culture;
  3. Surfacing Knowledge from Doctoral Research: mining the hidden potential of international doctoral theses;
  4. Arts Engagement and Mental Health at Work. 

We will also support several Research Development Projects during the year.  Details of these will be made available in June 2025.

Our projects in 2026/27 are:

  1. Mercy and Justice;
  2. Community an a Enabler of Scientific Progress and Innovation;
  3. Reconceptualising Resistance;
  4. Circulatory Materials.

Our Major Projects begin with preliminary ideas and planning the year before the project takes place with events and activities to build project capacity. Follow our What's On pages to find out what activities and events are taking place.

During the project year itself, sees an intensive term of activity for each project with visiting Fellows and a variety of events. 

Further details of all our future Major Projects, including contacts can be found below. 

Future IAS projects

Click on the links below to take you to each individual project and further information. 

Interest in Cattle: value, risk and security in eastern and southern Africa

This project explores how cattle are linked to changing understandings of future security, value and risk and develop new collaborations and research projects
Cattle being herded in the Masi Mara - istock

Surfacing Knowledge from Doctoral Research: mining the hidden potential of international doctoral theses

This project explores the knowledge and impact of the research produced by PhD studies in UK universities.
Image of PhD thesis

Arts Engagement and Mental Health at Work

Aims to explore how arts engagement can help to combat loneliness at work, thereby increasing working adults’ mental health and well-being.
people watching an orchestra

Confronting Climate Apartheid: law, economy, culture

Takes an integrative interdisciplinary approach to understand how climate apartheid is, has been, and could be used by focusing on the contexts in which it appears.
Dried up river

Mercy and Justice

Tackling the pressing problem of mercy’s potential for harm.
people holding hands - image courtesy of iStock