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Future IAS projects

We are commtited to supporting and developing exciting ideas with potential

Across a 3-year project cycle, we support PIs to deliver their goals and objectives

Year 1 - Pre-project year (developing preliminary ideas and planning for the project start)
Year 2 - Project year (joined by visiting Fellows for an intensive term of research collaboration)
Year 3 - Post project year (building on outcomes of Y1 and Y2

Our Major Projects for next year (2026/27) are:

Mercy and Justice

Tackling the pressing problem of mercy’s potential for harm.
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Community as an Enabler of Scientific Progress and Innovation

Investigating the role of communities as drivers of scientific progress
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Circulatory Materials

Challenging/critically recasting a growing body of work on the ‘circular economy’ premised on extending 'life-cycles' of products and maintaining material circulation
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Reconceptualising Resistance

Exploring disciplinary and methodological orientations; divergence between empirical, theoretical, and normative framings of resistance and the role of the academy
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