Reporting on the academic activities of the ISRF for the calendar year ending 31st December 2022.
In January 2022, the ISRF launched its ninth Independent Scholar Fellowship competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, the Selection Panel met in July 2022, and voted to make five awards.
In April 2022, the ISRF launched its sixth Mid-Career Fellowship competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, the Selection Panel met in December 2022, and voted to make five awards.
April 2022 also saw the launch of the ISRF’s fifth Political Economy Fellowship competition. The deadline for applications was 5pm BST on Friday 1st July 2022, and award decisions are expected by the end of January 2023.
In August 2022, the ISRF launched its ninth Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition. The deadline for applications was 5pm BST on 14th October 2022. Award decisions are expected by the end of February 2023.
The 2nd ISRF Congress took place on 23rd May 2022, at the ISRF’s London Office.
The 2022 ISRF Conference – The Digital Condition and Humanities Knowledge – took place on 22-24 September 2022, at The Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, Greece, in partnership with the Research Centre for the Humanities.
The third in the series of Economics &… workshops, Economics & Semiotics, took place on 28th & 29th October 2022 at Goldsmiths, University of London.
The ISRF was co-organiser of a book launch event and discussion around Professor Lisa Hajjar’s book The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight Against Torture, which took place on 23rd November 2022.
The ISRF Book Launch series continued in 2022, with events celebrating the launches of Care, Power, Information (Alexander Stingl); Colonizing Animals: Interspecies Empire in Myanmar (Jonathan Saha); The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A True Story of Sex, Crime and the Meaning of Justice (Julia Laite); The Spaces of Mental Capacity Law: Moving Beyond Binaries (Beverley Clough); Care, Crisis and Activism: The Politics of Everyday Life (Eleanor Jupp); Limits of the Numerical: The Abuses and Uses of Quantification (Anna Alexandrova, Stephen John & Christopher Newfield); Inventing Value: The Social Construction of Monetary Worth (Dave Elder-Vass); and Being Social: The Philosophy of Social Human Rights (Kimberley Brownlee, David Jenkins & Adam Neal).
The termly print bulletin continues to be accompanied by a regularly updated blog, which features scholarly contributions from ISRF Fellows, Advisors and Associates.
Reporting on the academic activities of the ISRF for the calendar year ending 31st December 2021.
In January 2021, the ISRF launched its sixth Early Career Fellowship competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, the Selection Panel met in September 2021, and voted to make six awards.
January 2021 also saw the launch of the ISRF’s eighth Independent Scholar Fellowship competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, the Selection Panel met in July 2021, and voted to make six awards.
In August 2021, the ISRF launched its eighth Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, a selection panel nominated 24 projects for award.
In November 2021, the ISRF launched its first Collaborative Fellowships competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, the Selection Panel met in July 2022, and voted to make three awards.
November 2021 also saw the launch of the ISRF’s first First Book Grant competition. Having received a number of strong proposals, the Selection Panel met in June 2022, and voted to make six awards.
The ISRF Book Launch series continued in 2021, with events celebrating the launches of An African Path to Disability Justice (Oche Onazi), Victory: The Triumph and Tragedy of Just War (Cian O’Driscoll), Being Sure of Each Other (Kimberley Brownlee), The Retreat of Liberal Democracy (Gábor Scheiring), The War Lawyers (Craig Jones), Power Shift (Petter Newell), The EU, Hamas and the 2006 Palestinian Elections (Catherine Chiniara Charrett), Unexpected Subjects (Alessandra Gribaldo), Colonial Terror (Deana Heath), Law and Disorder (Illan rua Wall), and On Burnley Road (Mike Makin-Waite).
The ISRF also held its first Congress on 19th November 2021, at the People’s History Museum, Manchester.
The termly print bulletin continues to be accompanied by a regularly updated blog, which features scholarly contributions from ISRF Fellows, Advisors and Associates.
Reporting on the academic activities of the ISRF for the calendar year ending 31st December 2020.
In October 2019, the ISRF launched its sixth Flexible Grants for Small Groups competition. Award decisions were announced in March 2020.
In January 2020, the ISRF launched its fifth Mid-Career Fellowship competition. Award decisions were announced in July 2020.
In January 2020, the ISRF launched its fourth Political Economy Fellowship competition. Award decisions were announced in August 2020.
In July 2020, the ISRF launched its seventh Independent Scholar Fellowship competition. Award decisions were announced in December 2020.
The Independent Social Research Foundation and the Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour awarded the 2020 ISRF Essay Prize in Social Theory to Dr Doron Shultziner (Hadassah Academic College Jerusalem) & Dr Sarah Goldberg (Technion Israel Institute of Technology) for their essay The Stages of Mass Mobilization: Separate Phenomena and Distinct Causal Mechanisms.
An ISRF Book Launch series commenced in 2020 with Freedom: The One Good Thing That We’ve Got?, a book launch and conversation with Professor Annelien de Dijn, author of the book Freedom: An Unruly History.
The 2020 ISRF Annual Workshop, and the Economics & Semiotics Workshop, were postponed due to Covid-19.
The termly print bulletin is now accompanied by a regularly updated blog, which features scholarly contributions from ISRF Fellows, Advisors and Associates.
