Humanities Center Collaborative Research Pop-Ups 25/26

Following five successful Research Pop-Ups in 2024-24, the Humanities Center in London is pleased to announce a call for Research Pop-Up Applications in 2025-26. This next round of funding once again supports faculty wishing to undertake small-scale, dynamic, collaborative research activities, typically involving at least three faculty members.

Research Pop-Ups can support a variety of research activities on Humanities themes, including but not limited to:

• Faculty research (materials, support for gatherings) on shared methods, topics, or texts
• Faculty research group visits to archives, museums, libraries or other relevant sites and exhibits
• Faculty groups to attend research-based workshops/networking events

Priority will be given to applications that clearly demonstrate how the Pop-Up aligns with the Humanities Center’s priorities for research that:

• advances social justice, has meaningful social impacts, and moves humanity toward greater equity
• engages at the global level while also closely attending to the local
• co-creates initiatives with communities beyond the university in partnership with multigenerational teams of undergraduate, graduate, and faculty collaborators
• utilizes transdisciplinary approaches in areas including, but not limited to, digital, environmental, health, and public humanities

Applications are welcome from any Northeastern Faculty based in London. Up to £750 will be available per award to support activities conducted in the 2025/26 academic year. Funding must be spent by June 30, 2026.

Please note the program is designed to stimulate new collaborative research initiatives, not to fund existing or already planned events (the Humanities Center will run another call as part of its events funding program in summer 2026).

Please write a 350 word rationale on how the proposal fits the above priorities, and provide a one page budget summary that clearly justifies the expenses listed. Please submit via this form by 5pm Friday 16th January 2026.

Northeastern University’s Humanities Center, spanning our global campus network, promotes collaborative, innovative, and publicly-engaged humanities research and programming. The Humanities Center pairs deep reflective inquiry with experience to attend to the past, foster meaningful conversations in the present, and pursue more just futures. Its leadership team is comprised of:

• Professor Olly Ayers, London Humanities Center Director
• Professor Simon Rabinovitch, Boston Humanities Center Director
• Professor Kirsten Saxton, Oakland Humanities Center Director
• Professor Getty L. Lustila, Boston Associate Director
• Tiana Owens, Assistant Director