British Academy – CIFAR Global Scholars 2026-2028 (up to $100,000 CAD) – YOA

Deadline: November 5, 2025

Applications are open for the British Academy- CIFAR Global Scholars 2026-2028. This is a two-yr OPPORTUNITY to collaborate and obtain mentorship inside an in depth-knit, interdisciplinary community of main world researchers in a CIFAR analysis program.

They encourage UK-based mostly researchers throughout the social sciences and humanities to apply and benefit from this distinctive alternative. Successful candidates be part of one in every of CIFAR’s interdisciplinary analysis packages, collaborating with world analysis leaders to advance transformative information and deal with a number of the most vital questions dealing with science and humanity.

The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) Programs accepting purposes, in partnership with the British Academy, embody:

• Child & Brain Development
• Future Flourishing
• Humanity’s Urban Future

Benefits

The CIFAR Global Scholars Program supplies:

• $100,000 CAD in unrestricted analysis assist. These funds can be utilized for analysis bills, educating launch, scholar or postdoc assist, convention journey, and extra.
• Opportunities to apply for CIFAR seed funds. These time-restricted funds assist excessive-threat, excessive-reward interdisciplinary collaborations with CIFAR Fellows, Advisors and different Global Scholars.
• Membership within the prolonged group of CIFAR Global Scholars. This community of inventive and like-minded friends throughout cohorts and numerous disciplines presents invaluable assist and additional alternative for collaboration.
• Targeted coaching in important areas of analysis management, together with staff management, trainee mentorship, science communication and science advocacy.

Eligibility

To be thought of for the CIFAR Global Scholars program, you could:

• Hold a PhD (or equal).
• Hold a full-time place at an establishment of upper schooling or analysis. Your function should embody duty for main impartial analysis as a principal investigator and supervising or educating trainees towards their attainment of a level. This place should be safe all through the complete time period from 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2028. Typically, an eligible applicant is a tenure-monitor Assistant Professor (within the North American context), or holds an equal place designed to lead to a everlasting college appointment (in educational programs outdoors of North America).
• Engage in analysis that enhances the themes and objectives of a recruiting CIFAR analysis program.

Application

The deadline for purposes is 5 November 2025 at 17:00 GMT.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to British Academy- CIFAR Global Scholars.