{"id":1254,"date":"2019-05-10T11:20:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T11:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=1254"},"modified":"2019-05-15T11:27:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T11:27:41","slug":"dr-sean-molloy-awarded-british-academy-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2019\/05\/10\/dr-sean-molloy-awarded-british-academy-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Sean Molloy awarded British Academy funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/staff\/canterbury\/molloy.html\">Dr Sean Mollo<\/a>y, Reader in International Relations of the School of Politics and International Relations has been awarded funding under a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship scheme to recognise \u2018outstanding\u2019 contributions towards public understanding of the humanities and social sciences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/staff\/canterbury\/molloy.html\">Dr Sean Molloy\u00a0<\/a> is among 30 leading academics from universities across the UK to be awarded fellowships.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk\/\">British Academy <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk\/news\/new-mid-career-fellowships-awarded-30-talented-academics\">Mid-Career Fellowships<\/a>, worth on average \u00a3116,000 for a period of 6-12 months, are designed both to support talented individual researchers with excellent research proposals, and to promote public understanding of \u2013 and engagement with \u2013 subjects in the humanities and social sciences.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme allows academics time to focus on a major piece of research by obtaining time away from teaching and administration commitments.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Molloy\u2019s winning research proposal was entitled <em>E.H. Carr: Realist Ethics Between Hegel and Marx<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The awards provide opportunities for scholars who have already established a significant track record as an excellent communicator and \u2018champion\u2019 in their field, and who are normally within no more than 15 years from the award of their doctorate.<\/p>\n<p>To be eligible, Mid-Career Fellows are required to demonstrate a commitment to public engagement and to communicate their project to a broad audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sean Molloy, Reader in International Relations of the School of Politics and International Relations has been awarded funding under a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2019\/05\/10\/dr-sean-molloy-awarded-british-academy-funding\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39550,"featured_media":1255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[131000,131002],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}