British Library Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Sustainability and Environment 2025 (up to £8,000)

Deadline: January 7, 2025

Applications are open for the British Library Visiting Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Sustainability and Environment 2025. This is a collections-based fellowship, aimed toward early profession researchers in the humanities and humanities or social sciences. It is designed to encourage the promotion and use of British Library collections in sustainability and environmental analysis, an increasing and pressing space of present social and cultural enquiry.

This is a pilot scheme, designed to help the Library to work in new methods to meet its environmental and sustainability targets, to showcase the wealthy potential of our collections in this space, and to assist us to higher perceive the wants of customers together with broader analysis communities equivalent to activists and artistic practitioners.

Researchers are invited to suggest any initiatives which discover assortment areas related to sustainability and atmosphere, which search to join shared histories and futures. They are significantly in initiatives which discover their historic collections, together with however not restricted to: science, legislation, politics, literature, stamps, newspapers, maps, poetry, climate reviews, oral histories, and so on. They welcome a wide range of proposed outputs ensuing from this analysis, together with however not restricted to: journal articles, weblog posts, podcasts, public talks or performances, group engagement actions, submission of analysis bids or different funding purposes.

Research Themes

They are open to any kind or focus of proposal, however are significantly excited for researchers to method
our collections via the next analysis themes:

• Development of environmentalism – eco-criticism; representations and experiences of local weather disaster; local weather activism; altering attitudes to the pure world; accessibility of environmental data; sustainability and wellbeing; public engagement in science.
• How archive and library collections can be utilized to look at altering landscapes, waterways, climates and ecologies – together with anthropogenic impacts, human-animal relations; human geography.
• Colonial and imperial environments – networks, establishments and communities; pure economies and commodity frontiers; shortage and extraction; battle, company and social justice.
• Green Libraries – creating environmentally sustainable practices in archives and libraries; enhancing environmental situations for historic collections; threat administration together with new and rising dangers from a altering local weather; group engagement and studying apply/pedagogies.

Benefits

• £8,000 bursary to assist 4 months full-time analysis (or part-time equal) on the Library, paid as lump sum;
• Up to £2,000 extra funding out there to assist journey bills throughout the Fellowship;
• Provision of employees move, laptop computer, and desk area in Research Development workplace.

Eligibility

• Open to all researchers inside 10 years of their PhD, who’re resident in the UK.
• Fellows are anticipated to be resident in London for almost all of the interval of the award, and to make a contribution to the mental lifetime of the Library.

All purposes shall be anticipated to display the next:

• Ability to talk successfully verbally and in writing, internally and externally;
• How the proposed work will contribute to the non-public and skilled improvement of the applicant;
• Why the British Library collections are obligatory for this analysis (candidates are strongly inspired to discover out there catalogues and assortment guides);
• How the proposed analysis will assist the Library in its intention to open up the gathering in new and fascinating methods, to assist work on options to the environmental challenges we face;
• The significance of the proposed analysis inside the wider mental and cultural panorama;
• How the proposed analysis may have interaction completely different tutorial and public communities in sustainability and environmental points.

Application

In order to apply for this fellowship, submit the next to [email protected] :

• Cover electronic mail with title of proposal and desired dates of Fellowship exercise;
• Research proposal together with aims, methodology, anticipated outputs and Library collections to be explored (1000 phrases max);
• CV (2 web page max).

For extra info, go to British Library.