British Academy Mid-Career Fellowships 2025 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: August 20, 2025

Applications are open for the British Academy Mid-Career Fellowships 2025. Through this scheme, the Academy intends to each assist excellent particular person researchers with glorious analysis proposals, and to advertise public understanding of and engagement with the humanities and social sciences.

The main rationale of the scheme is, due to this fact, to free profitable candidates from their regular educational and administrative commitments for a interval of 6 to 12 months to dedicate to the completion of a serious piece of analysis. In addition, the Academy will search for proof of a transparent dedication to a method of public engagement and communication of the analysis outcomes throughout the interval of the Fellowship.

Scope pf the Award

These awards assist excellent particular person researchers and communicators who will promote public engagement and understanding of the humanities and social sciences. Awards will likely be judged each on the standard of the analysis proposed and on the capability of the applicant to speak with a broad viewers. Applicants are invited to point methods during which their proposed programme will contribute to advances in understanding, together with public understanding, of their topic space and to the identification of acceptable strategic priorities within the social sciences and humanities.

Award

• These Fellowships are lined underneath the Full Economic Costing (FEC) framework, however the Academy’s contribution is calculated at 80 per cent of this determine, with the Academy’s contribution to the wage of the Mid-Career Fellow capped at an higher restrict of £80,000. It just isn’t anticipated that the full worth of an award will exceed £152,000 (80 per cent Academy contribution to FEC). Awards will be held for no less than 6 months as much as a most of 12 months.

Eligibility

• Prospective award holders have to be employed at a UK-based mostly college, Higher Education establishment or Independent Research Organisation; the Academy is wanting notably to assist mid-profession students.
• The Academy takes no account of an applicant’s bodily age or present standing in figuring out eligibility for these awards. Rather, these awards are supposed primarily to supply alternatives for researchers who’ve already made an impressive contribution to their area and have achieved distinction as a superb communicator and ‘champion’ of their area, and who would normally be inside not more than 15 years from the award of their doctorate.
• In contemplating eligibility, the Academy will make due allowance for candidates who’ve had profession breaks; and for established researchers who should not have doctorates, who ought to be inside fifteen years of their first educational appointment.

Application

The application deadline is August 20, 2025 at 17:00 BST. Late functions won’t be thought-about.

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For extra data, go to British Academy Mid-Career Fellowships.