AHRC Impact Acceleration Account

The University of Sussex has been awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) grant of £600,000 over four years (April 2022 - March 2026), to accelerate the impact of arts and humanities research.

The programme enables researchers across the University (conducting research in the Arts and Humanities remit) to help bring about societal, economic, environmental and other impacts beyond academia. It offers advisory and financial support for individual impactful projects, and facilitates collaborations between researchers and external partners in a wide range and scale of organisations, to work on real-world changes.

The funding will be used to explore and develop new opportunities and innovative avenues to utilise arts and humanities research, with the aim of achieving impactful outcomes, particularly across our core strands:

  • Creative Economy
  • Cultural Heritage
  • Policy
  • Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
  • AI & Digital Transformation
  • Place-making & Community

Project funding calls 

Due to high demand and limited remaining funds, the AHRC IAA seed-funding calls are now closed (final round closed 25 October 2024).

Further information

Read about the programme's previous calls and other activities on the AHRC IAA main webpage (behind Sussex login).

The AHRC IAA impact training programme ran during 2024 - please visit the AHRC IAA training webpage (behind Sussex login) for resources, recordings and more.

Please contact the AHRC IAA team inbox with any questions about the programme: ahrciaa@sussex.ac.uk 

For impact support more generally, please contact the relevant PS colleague(s) from these lists: