Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) Individual Fellowship 2027 – YOA

Deadline: October 31, 2025

Applications are open for the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) Individual Fellowship 2027. STIAS supplies and maintains an unbiased ‘creative space for the mind’ to advance the reason for science and scholarship throughout all disciplines. It is world in its attain and native in its African roots, and values unique pondering and innovation on this context.

It encourages the cross-pollination of concepts and therefore provides desire to initiatives that can faucet into, and profit from, a multi-disciplinary discourse whereas additionally contributing distinctive views to such a discourse. This interplay is fostered by inviting particular person fellows or challenge groups the place every group member is evaluated individually.

The STIAS programme includes initiatives that are fully self-generated and proposed by candidates, in addition to initiatives and programmes initiated and led by STIAS, sometimes with choose accomplice organisations. STIAS Fellows are anticipated to be resident at STIAS for the length of a fellowship, with no tutorial obligations aside from pursuing the proposed analysis challenge. Obligations whereas in residence embody taking part within the Tuesday and Thursday STIAS Fellows’ seminar the place Fellows in flip current their work to different Fellows and invited teachers from the area people and to have lunch on the STIAS Wallenberg Research Centre from Monday to Friday.

Eligibility

• No restriction is positioned on the nation of origin, self-discipline, or tutorial affiliation when STIAS considers a fellowship invitation.
• STIAS fellows who’ve been in residence beforehand are welcome to submit new purposes, allowing for that in a 5-yr cycle desire is given to first-time candidates.
• Apart from candidates who apply throughout the framework of an settlement with the Volkswagen Foundation, STIAS doesn’t think about postdoctoral purposes.

Selection Criteria

STIAS fellows are chosen on the idea of educational excellence and the originality of their proposed analysis challenge. The following standards function essential tips:

• Level: Does the proposal entail analysis on the highest stage?
• Innovation: Does the challenge break new floor? Does it maintain the promise of recent insights and the potential to provide new data?
• Interdisciplinarity: To what extent does the challenge draw on completely different disciplines and what methodology is envisaged for doing so? Will the challenge facilitate an interdisciplinary discourse?
• Relevance: Does the challenge have relevance for South Africa and Africa? Is the challenge acceptable for the programme of an institute for superior study?
• Feasibility: How convincing is the proposed methodology and analysis design, and the way sensible is the analysis plan? Is the applicant geared up to ship on the proposed challenge?

Application

Applications for the first semester of 2027 (mid-January to mid-June) could also be submitted earlier than 31 October 2025. The outcomes of the cohort choice will likely be out there in March 2026.

Along with a masking letter, purposes ought to embody:

• A complete Curriculum Vitae.
• An inventory of publications (could also be included within the CV).
• One or two latest articles typical of the applicant’s analysis work, or associated to the proposed challenge.
• A challenge title and outline (2-4 pages) of the deliberate work and  anticipated outcomes.
• A quick abstract/ introductory textual content (most 200 phrases) of the proposed challenge accessible to readers from outdoors the candidate’s particular self-discipline. This will likely be posted on the STIAS web site (see project summaries for examples).
• A transparent indication of the size of fellowship being utilized for, along with most well-liked and different dates of residence at STIAS.
• A quick indication of how the applicant turned conscious of the STIAS programme and motivation to decide on STIAS.

Submit application through:

• Email at [email protected]. Documentation needs to be submitted in PDF format.
• Mail to Ms Gudrun Schirge, STIAS Senior Programme Administrator
  Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa.

For extra info, go to STIAS Individual Fellowship.