AHRC responsive mode: Curiosity Award

The AHRC Curiosity Award provides flexible funding to support early-stage ambitious and novel fundamental research in arts and humanities which has the potential to act as a springboard towards new and exciting research agendas. The funding opportunity celebrates the full diversity of the arts and humanities and is intentionally flexible, welcoming applications from teams, networks, and solo researchers. Projects can be single discipline, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary, with the majority of the disciplinary focus falling within AHRC's subject remit. The awards support activities including idea generation, seed corn funding, high risk and high potential concepts, novel research, networking activity, partnership building, knowledge exchange, public engagement, international collaboration, scoping and piloting, pivots in research focus at any career stage, and mentoring for members of the research team. Applications are welcomed from researchers across all career stages, from early career to established researchers.