British Council 90th Anniversary Research Fellowships at the University of Edinburgh 2026 – YOA

Deadline: July 28, 2025

Applications are open for the British Council ninetieth Anniversary Research Fellowships at the University of Edinburgh 2026. The British Council celebrated its ninetieth anniversary in 2024. They are delighted to announce a analysis partnership between the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh and the British Council.

They are awarding two 12-month Fellowships beginning in January 2026 – open to postdoctoral researchers based mostly in any ODA-recipient nation the place the British Council operates. Fellows will spend the first ten months of their Fellowships at IASH, adopted by as much as two months based mostly of their home nations targeted on data trade and dissemination in collaboration with the British Council.

The Fellowship supplies a bursary month-to-month and journey bills in addition to desk house, library entry and educational mentoring as part of the vibrant scholarly neighborhood of visiting fellows at IASH. Fellows may also be anticipated to have interaction intently with the British Council all through their Fellowships (together with visits to UK places of work), with the choice to spend time in a British Council workplace of their home nation as part of the data trade element of the Fellowship.

Benefits

British Council ninetieth Anniversary Research Fellowship supplies:

• Research go to at the University of Edinburgh for ten months, adopted by as much as two months based mostly of their home nations targeted on data trade and dissemination
• Bursary of £2,500 per thirty days for 12 months
• Dedicated workplace house, University e-mail and library entry
• A University mentor from an space related to the Fellows’ analysis pursuits
• Weekly Fellows’ Lunch to construct neighborhood
• Collegial work-in-progress seminar collection for testing new concepts
• Calendar of partaking occasions at the Institute and College
• Opportunities to take part in and design funded workshops, colloquia, and so forth at the Institute

Eligibility

• Applications are invited from ODA-recipient nations the place the British Council operates.
• Applicants should even have been awarded a doctorate at the time of application, and usually inside the final seven years (i.e. it is best to have graduated between 2018 and 2025, though earlier graduates could also be eligible if they’ve taken vital profession breaks since finishing their doctorate; if in case you have not but graduated, you need to have the ability to produce a transcript, testamur, or a letter of completion/eligibility to graduate as part of your application, exhibiting that your viva examination has been efficiently accomplished and all mandatory corrections made to your thesis; you do not want to have really graduated at the time you apply).
• You shouldn’t have held a everlasting place at a college, or a earlier Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities. Those who’ve held non permanent, recurring and/or quick-time period appointments are eligible to apply. If you’ve taken parental depart or different time away from academia, this is not going to depend in the direction of the three-yr restrict, however they ask that you just present temporary particulars of why and for the way lengthy you weren’t working.

Assessment Criteria

Applications might be thought of by an evaluation panel comprised of University of Edinburgh and British Council workers. Assessment will take account of the extent to which candidates meet the following standards:

• A analysis and/or skilled background and educational document that pertains to broad thematic remit of the programme.
• A analysis proposal with clear potential to help the British Council’s goals for the programme.
• Demonstrable expertise of partaking non-educational audiences and stakeholders in analysis (e.g. by way of engagement with coverage makers, practitioners, artists or different public audiences).
• A transparent dedication to data trade and dissemination as part of the fellowship and past the timeframe of the fellowship itself, based mostly on the networks, insights and learnings developed by way of their analysis.

Application

• In addition to the application kind, CV and analysis proposal, a canopy letter outlining how the Fellowship will help the British Council’s goals for this programme is required, in addition to a minimal of two and a most of three confidential references.
• Applicants ought to ask their referees to e-mail their reference to the Director at [email protected] by the deadline. If references are usually not acquired by this date, your application can’t be thought of.
• Referees ought to touch upon the nature and high quality of the analysis proposal, in addition to on the {qualifications} of the applicant. One referee ought to certify the profitable viva (defence) and remaining examination of the candidate’s PhD thesis.

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For extra data, go to British Council 90th Anniversary Research Fellowships.