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. Award decisions are expected by the end of January 2022.
In November 2021, the ISRF launched its first Collaborative Fellowships competition. Award decisions will be announced by the end of June 2022.
November 2021 also saw the launch of the ISRF’s first First Book Grant competition. Award decisions will be announced by the end of June 2022.
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 Makini-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.
