AHRC responsive mode: Curiosity Award (Grant)

Flexible awards to fund fundamental research that leads to new research agendas, networking activity and idea generation, which enables the development of further research opportunities and new research agendas. Curiosity awards support early-stage ambitious and novel fundamental research 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. It is flexible, and applications are welcomed from teams, networks, and solo researchers. Projects can be single discipline, interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdisciplinary. Practice-based and practice-led research is supported by this funding opportunity. Partnerships and collaboration are supported. The funding opportunity is intentionally flexible and may include 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.