Collaboration and Innovation Grant

The Collaboration and Innovation Grant brings together interdisciplinary researchers, practitioners, artists, community groups, and cultural partners to co-design public engagement activities. 

This grant aims to challenge traditional, researcher-led models of public engagement by fostering shared decision-making, relationship-building, and meaningful knowledge exchange. 

Currently in its pilot phase, the programme is supporting two projects: one exploring the theme of Walking, Power, and Inclusion, and the other centred on Community Gardening. We are working with researchers and public engagement practitioners from a broad range of disciplines, including history, literature, languages, and cultures, performance, human geography, and sociology. 

These pilot projects are designed to test new approaches to equitable and impactful collaboration, approaches that are experimental, unexpected, and interdisciplinary. Learning and insights from this pilot phase will shape the open call for applications, launching in Spring 2026.