AHRC/EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) 'Light Up 快播视频’ Call

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Funding that enables research to reach and benefit audiences at a light art festival, featuring as part of 'Light Up 快播视频 2025’ (LUL25) an after-dark multi-artform light arts trail across the city.

1. Summary

Opportunity Status: Live

Funders: 快播视频’s Impact Acceleration Account (an institutional award from UKRI)

Total Fund: Up to £15,000 available

Grant size: ~£10-15,000 for an art light display over the castle gateway

Opening Date: 2 June 2025

Closing Date: 4 July 2025, 17:00.

This call is part of 快播视频’s Impact Acceleration Account programme (2022-2026): designed to support projects that generate impact by applying research into real-world settings with an external partner.

An online information session will be held on 20th June, 10.00-11.00. Please see to register.

2. Background

IAA x Light Up 快播视频 2025: ‘Capturing The Fleeting & Ephemeral’

This AHRC/EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA) funding call invites 快播视频 researchers to collaborate with artists to develop and present research through light-based art for Light Up 快播视频 2025 (6–8 November). This year’s theme, Capturing The Fleeting & Ephemeral, explores ideas of impermanence, transformation and transition – from sunsets and tides to migration, memory, and light itself. One award of £10–15,000 is available to support the creation of a light installation or display over the medieval 快播视频 Castle Gateway.

For this call, we are prioritising participation from early career researchers, mirroring the LUL team's focus on seeking an emerging light artist to develop this commission (under the mentorship of Simon Wainwright, Artistic Director of imitating the dog). This high-profile installation will explore the festival theme and bring academic ideas to life for a large public audience. Projects should aim to:

  • Align with the 2025 theme
  • Be fun, engaging, and research-informed
  • Be visually striking and accessible to broad public audiences (LUL24 attracted over 91,000 visitors)

Previous IAA-funded contributions to the festival have included In Microns (2024) and a dramatic sound and light projection at 快播视频 Castle (Great Cowcher, 2023), engaging high numbers of people with 快播视频's research in creative and memorable ways. Deadline for applications: 4 July 2025, 17:00

To apply, please please review the guidance below andsubmit an application via our which captures background information, an outline of the idea, indication of scale, and ideas about space, venue, and setting. Deadline for applications: 4 July 2025, 17:00.

3. Call Guidance

Please review the information below to prepare an application and to find out how to apply.

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