For scholars within 3 years of PhD award.
For scholars within 10 years of PhD award.
For scholars more than 10 years post-PhD.
For independent scholars.
For pairs of scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds.
For scholars working in Political Economy.
For groups of 2-10 scholars.
The ISRF seeks to fund innovative research which breaks with existing explanatory frameworks so as to address afresh empirical problems with no currently adequate theory or investigative methodology.
Innovation may also come from controversial theoretical approaches motivated by critical challenge of incumbent theories. Interdisciplinarity in the generation of new investigative initiatives may be achieved by combining and transforming empirical methods and theoretical insights from the social sciences. Projects ranging across the breadth of the social scientific disciplines and interdisciplinary research fields are welcome, and relevant applications from scholars working within the humanities and the natural sciences are also encouraged.