These are highlights from the opportunities compiled by UK Parliament’s Knowledge Exchange Unit (KEU) in their 5 June roundup with reference to Arts and Humanities disciplines. 

Take a look at the KEU’s webhub of information and resources for researchers for further information on how to get involved. 

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All Arts and Humanities Researchers and especially Doctoral Researchers

  • NEW OPPORTUNITY: APPLY FOR A POLICY FELLOWSHIP
    Apply for a UKRI Policy Fellowship in UK Parliament     (Deadline for applications, 8 September 2025). UK Parliament has launched their new set of fellowships through the Policy Internships scheme, funded by UKRI. The scheme provides the opportunity for doctoral students funded by the research councils of UKRI (including AHRC) to work for three months within a host policy organisation, such as UK Parliament. Applicants specify their preferred host organisation when they apply for the internship.  An online information session about the UK Parliament based internships will be held on Thursday 3 July – email post@parliament.uk if you wish to attend. More details are available in the KEU roundup, on the POST website and on the UKRI website.  

Archaeology 

  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Multifunctional Land Use Decisions (Contribution deadline: 11 June 2025). Archaeology may give insight into multifunctional land-use in the past. If you are interested, please contribute via this form. 

Architecture and Design

  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Multifunctional Land Use Decisions (Contribution deadline: 11 June 2025). This POSTnote may be of interest, given possible insight from architecture and design for past, current and potential future multifunctional land-use, and how architecture and design might help meet the challenges posed by the competing demand for housing, infrastructure, food, energy and nature recovery, climate mitigation and adaptation. Contribute via this form. 

Classics

  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Multifunctional Land Use Decisions (Contribution deadline: 11 June 2025). This POSTnote may be of interest, given possible insight from Classics of multifunctional land-use in the past, and how ancient communities governed land-use. If you are interested, you can contribute via this form.  

Cultural and Museum Studies

  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Combatting New Forms of Extremism, Home Affairs Committee (Deadline for evidence submission: 18 June 2025). This inquiry on the growth of extremism and radicalisation in the UK, the impact of new technology, “com networks”, and the efficacy of Prevent may be of interest to researchers in cultural studies and pop culture as well as (potentially) gender and sexuality studies. 

Development Studies (and Area Studies)

  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Multifunctional Land Use Decisions (Contribution deadline: 11 June 2025). This POSTnote may be of interest, given possible insight from area and development studies of multifunctional land-use, and its governance, in other countries, and how this is impacted by cultural, religious and/or historic factors. Contributevia this form.

Diplomacy, International Relations and War Studies

  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry on Preventing Waste and Enabling a Circular Economy, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). This inquiry is asking questions around why the INC-5 talks in November 2024 failed to reach an agreement on the Global Plastics Treaty, areas of agreement and disagreement between parties, and whether these can be overcome. Researchers in relevant areas of diplomacy and IR may have useful insight for the committee on these issues. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry on Cost of Maintaining the FCDO’s overseas estate, Public Accounts Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 26 June 2025). This inquiry may be of relevance to scholars in diplomacy, especially questions of cost-efficiency. 

Gender Studies

  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Combatting New Forms of Extremism, Home Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). This inquiry on the growth of extremism and radicalisation in the UK, the impact of new technology, “com networks”, and the efficacy of Prevent may be of interest. 

Geography (especially cultural and/or historical geography)

  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Combatting New Forms of Extremism, Home Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). This inquiry on the growth of extremism and radicalisation in the UK, the impact of new technology, “com networks”, and the efficacy of Prevent may be of interest to cultural geographers. 

History

  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Governance and decision-making on major projects, Public Accounts Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 10 June 2025). This inquiry may benefit from historical research into delivery (or non-delivery) of UK Government “mega-projects” to understand how information has fed into key decisions on projects, and lessons learned.
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into Call Lists, Procedure Committee (No deadline advertised). This inquiry may be of interest to political historians.
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Multifunctional Land Use Decisions (Contribution deadline: 11 June 2025). This POSTnote may also be of interest, given possible insight from history of multifunctional land-use, and the governance of land-use, in the past. Contribute via this form. 

Law

  • NEW OPPORTUNITY TO BE A SPECIALIST ADVISOR: Apply to be a specialist advisor for the the House of Lords Finance Bill Sub-Committee to support their scrutiny work (Deadline for applications: 25 June 2025). The role is part-time and remunerated by a daily fee of £375. The successful candidate(s) will provide impartial advice to members of the sub-committee on their scrutiny of the draft Finance Bill, demonstrating established expertise in the field of tax policy and administration. The adviser(s) will work closely with sub-committee members and staff team under the direction of the Clerk to the Ssb-committee. Interested candidates should send a CV and short covering letter setting out their suitability for the post to the Finance Bill Sub-Committee email address: financebill@parliament.uk.
  • NEW CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons, Procedure Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 31 July 2025). This is an exciting opportunity to contribute evidence on how Parliament governs itself with relation to preserving “comity” between the courts and the House, to avoid Parliament influencing, or appearing to attempt to influence, the outcome of court proceedings, and to avoid Parliament acting as an alternative forum for resolution of matters that are before the courts. This inquiry will look at whether the current resolution, agreed by the House of Commons in 2001, continues to strike the appropriate balance. Relevant expertise from lawyers in this area might help the committee’s scrutiny work. The committee is especially interested in legal developments since 2001, for instance an increasing role for Tribunals and judicial review; the Law Commission’s proposals for reform of the Contempt of Court Act 1981; and/or the impact of international legal developments. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Improving Family Court Services for Children, Public Accounts Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 9 June 2025). This inquiry will ask questions relating to capacity to meet demand; a “whole systems approach”; and how to deliver an effective and efficient service.
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Improving local areas through developer funding, Public Accounts Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 16 June 2025). This inquiry might be of interest to experts in planning law. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Combatting New Forms of Extremism, Home Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). This inquiry on the growth of extremism and radicalisation in the UK, the impact of new technology, “com networks”, and the efficacy of Prevent may be of interest to experts on extremism, Prevent, and online regulation. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Preventing Waste and Enabling a Circular Economy – Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). International lawyers may have valuable insight for the committee as it looks to understand what were the main reasons for the INC-5 talks in November 2024 failing to reach an agreement on a Global Plastics Treaty; what the main areas of agreement and disagreement are between parties; how these might be overcome; and what a successful outcome might look like.  
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Reducing NHS Waiting times for elective care, Public Accounts Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 19 June 2025). This inquiry will hear from senior officials and NHSE and DHSC on governance and oversight of elective care transformation programmes. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Civil Service Pensions, Public Accounts Committee (Deadline to submit evidence:  23 June 2025). This inquiry in looking at the impact of the McCloud judgement and issues of age discrimination. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Government fees, charges and levies, Public Accounts Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 26 June 2025). This inquiry is interested in how effectively government adheres to HM Treasury’s Managing Public Money guidelines in implementing changes; the legal authority of charging fees; and transparency. Case studies are likely to focus on charges around passports, visas, Companies House fees, driving licence fees, data protection fees, court fees, and gambling licenses. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Local Bus Services in England, Public Accounts Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 3 July 2025). This inquiry is interested in risks and barriers to improvement of local bus services. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Resilience to threats from animal disease, Public Accounts Committee  (Deadline to submit evidence: 7 July 2025). This inquiry will question senior officials from Defra and representatives from other relevant bodies on Defra’s ability to establish and manage the structures, systems and governance processes needed to ensure England’s resilience to animal diseases, and whether England is prepared to respond to animal disease outbreaks and could effectively recover. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Accountability in small government bodies (Deadline to submit evidence: no deadline). This inquiry is interested in questions about requirements, obligations and standards for providing reliable and timely information from smaller government bodies. It may benefit from evidence from legal experts in this area. 
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Multifunctional Land Use Decisions (Contribution deadline: 11 June 2025). This POSTnote may also be of interest, given possible insight from lawyers on land-use governance. Contribute via this form.
  • Reminder: Devolved Legislature engagement opportunity: Promoting and Facilitating the use of British Sign Language (BSL) Area of Research Interest, Senedd Cymru (No deadline). This ARI specifically mentions the question of how effective the existing legislative framework is at recognising and protecting the rights of d/Deaf people and BSL users. Academics at all career stages, research institutions, and experts are encouraged to register their interest in this ARI, add their existing research and any planned research in this topic area to the ARI repository, and suggest questions that the Committee could be asking the Welsh Government in the short, medium, and long-term.

Languages and Literature

  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Combatting New Forms of Extremism, Home Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). This inquiry on the growth of extremism and radicalisation in the UK, the impact of new technology including AI, “com networks”, and the efficacy of Prevent may be of interest to people studying gender and sexuality, and/or extremist language, the framing of extremism, AI-generated communications, and online communication networks. 

Linguistics

  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Combatting New Forms of Extremism, Home Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). This inquiry on the growth of extremism and radicalisation in the UK, the impact of new technology including AI, “com networks”, and the efficacy of Prevent may be of interest to linguists. 
  • Reminder: Devolved Legislature engagement opportunity: Promoting and Facilitating the use of British Sign Language (BSL) Area of Research Interest, Senedd Cymru (No deadline). Academics at all career stages, research institutions, and experts are encouraged to register their interest in this ARI, add their existing research and any planned research in this topic area to the ARI repository, and suggest questions that the Committee could be asking the Welsh Government in the short, medium, and long-term.

Media and Communication Studies, and Journalism

  • NEW CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Sub judice resolution in the House of Commons, Procedure Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 31 July 2025). This is an exciting opportunity to contribute evidence on how Parliament governs itself with relation to preserving “comity” between the courts and the House, to avoid Parliament influencing, or appearing to attempt to influence, the outcome of court proceedings, and to avoid Parliament acting as an alternative forum for resolution of matters that are before the courts. This inquiry will look at whether the current resolution, agreed by the House of Commons in 2001, continues to strike the appropriate balance. The call for evidence specifically mentions the changing media landscape since 2001, and the implications for the operability of the sub judice resolution from the emergence of social media and increased media attention on Parliamentary matters. 
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Combatting New Forms of Extremism, Home Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). This inquiry on the growth of extremism and radicalisation in the UK, the impact of new technology including AI, “com networks”, and the efficacy of Prevent may be of interest. 

Philosophy

  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Combatting New Forms of Extremism, Home Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). This inquiry on the growth of extremism and radicalisation in the UK, the impact of new technology including AI, “com networks”, and the efficacy of Prevent may be of interest to philosophers (including philosophers of language and political philosophers). 
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Multifunctional Land Use Decisions (Contribution deadline: 11 June 2025). This POSTnote may be of interest to philosophers given it is interested in how co-production may involve different types of knowledge and expertise. Contribute via this form.

Political Theory

  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Combatting New Forms of Extremism, Home Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). This inquiry on the growth of extremism and radicalisation in the UK, the impact of new technology, “com networks”, and the efficacy of Prevent may be of interest to political theorists working on extremism, online harm, and/or “mixed, unclear and unstable ideologies”. 
  • Reminder: Contribute to a select committee inquiry into: Electronic Voting, Procedure Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: no deadline). This inquiry will look at the pros and cons of the current operation of divisions in the House of Commons and the potential merits and pitfalls of introducing electronic voting arrangements for divisions in the House. Political theorists interested in democratic theory and/or questions around transparency, trust, and accessibility may have useful insights for this committee. 
  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Multifunctional Land Use Decisions (Contribution deadline: 11 June 2025). This POSTnote may be of interest to political theorists, given its interest in collaborative decision-making models (e.g. scholars who work on democracy, citizens assemblies, and forms of deliberative democracy), and also normative questions about land and land-use and the benefits of different uses and decision-making processes. Researchers in the history of political thought may consider insights from how land-use decisions have been made in the past (or forms of decision-making or collaborative use that have been suggested in the past). Contributevia this form.

Theology, Divinity and Religion

  • Reminder: Contribute to a POSTnote on Multifunctional Land Use Decisions (Contribution deadline: 11 June 2025). This POSTnote may be of interest, given possible insight from researchers into different religious systems about both collaborative decision-making, and land-use. Contribute via this form.

Science and Technology Studies

  • NEW CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Government use of data analytics to make fraud and error savings, Public Accounts Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: no deadline). The committee will hear from senior officials on how government as a whole is seeking to improve its use of data analytics to tackle fraud. Experts working from an Arts and Humanities perspective might have useful insights to inform the committee’s scrutiny.   
  • Reminder: Contribute evidence to a select committee inquiry into: Combatting New Forms of Extremism, Home Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). Science and Technology studies experts working from an Arts and Humanities perspective or disciplinary background may have useful insights for this inquiry on the growth of extremism and radicalisation in the UK, the impact of new technology including AI, “com networks”, and the efficacy of Prevent.
  • Reminder: Contribute to a select committee inquiry into: Preventing Waste and Enabling a Circular Economy, Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee (Deadline to submit evidence: 18 June 2025). Science and Technology studies experts working from an Arts and Humanities perspective may have valuable insight for the committee as it looks to understand what were the main reasons for the INC-5 talks in November 2024 failing to reach an agreement on a Global Plastics Treaty; what the main areas of agreement and disagreement are between parties; how these might be overcome; and what a successful outcome might look like.