Commonwealth Peace & Reconciliation Challenge Grants
Description:
Applications are now open for Commonwealth Peace and Reconciliation Challenge Grants. Aimed at academic and professional staff at ACU member universities, grants of up to 2,500 GBP will support collaborative work addressing peace, reconciliation, and indigenous knowledge.
Grants: Grants of up to GBP 2, 500 each are available to support collaborative work focused on either of the two main strategic priorities of the Commonwealth Peace and Reconciliation Network:
- Historical memory and trauma
- Institutional reform and indigenous knowledge
From designing new learning modules to improve the understanding of settler-Indigenous relations in Canada, to promoting a decolonized approach to studying abroad - last year’s Peace and Reconciliation Challenge Grants funded a range of initiatives led by our member universities. Applications could include ideas for:
- Virtual exchange or collaboration, teaching / professional practice collaboration, sharing and co-development of learning materials, tools, training and approaches to support contingency and continuity of operations planning at Higher Education Institutions.
- Virtual fellowships or collaboration, comparative analyses, research management and uptake capacity building, understanding and documenting indigenous knowledge and practices.
Eligibility:
- Young women from Africa and Asia.
- Final-year university students and early career professionals with not more than three (3) years of post-university work experience.
- Excellent academic record
- Applicants must speak, write, and read English with proficiency.
- Applicants must have regular access to the internet.
Deadline: Monday 10 April 2023
How to apply: https://crm.acu.ac.uk/user/login?destination=node/258
Official website: https://www.acu.ac.uk/funding-opportunities/for-university-staff/grants/commonwealth-peace-reconciliation-challenge-grants/
To find out more, email reconciliation@acu.ac.uk