CRASSH Visiting Fellowships for Scholars from the Global South 2026-2027 – YOA

Deadline: February 16, 2026

Applications are open for the CRASSH Visiting Fellowships for Scholars from the Global South 2026-2027. The Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge is inviting functions for funded Visiting Fellowships for students from the Global South.

The function of those Fellowships is to offer alternatives for students working at increased schooling establishments in the Global South to trade concepts with different researchers primarily based at CRASSH and elsewhere in the University of Cambridge and to attract profit from entry to the University’s collections and sources. It is hoped that these visits will lead on to future collaborations and exchanges.

Fellowship Details

For 2027, CRASSH will associate with the University of Cambridge’s Legacies of Enslavement Initiative. Enslavement and different types of coerced labour have formed lives and areas throughout the globe for millennia, and significantly in the fashionable period. The violence of enslavement upon individuals, communities and landscapes has additionally invited resistance and responses from those that suffered from it. These struggles echo throughout time; lengthy after the formal abolition of slavery, they proceed to form experiences of inequality in the current day.

They invite functions that discover these matters in interdisciplinary methods – whether or not the focus is historic, up to date or some mixture of the two. This could embody the following areas of analysis:

• slavery and resistance, together with its social, materials and cultural manifestations
• the environmental impacts and legacies of the plantation system and the transportation of hundreds of thousands of people
• questions of reminiscence transmission and heritage
• the practices of data and energy that sustained and reproduce inequalities
• practices of restore and restoration to heal the wounds of enslavement.

They invite functions from any self-discipline, together with anthropology, archaeology, artwork historical past, digital humanities, ecology and environmental research, geography, historical past, philosophy, medical humanities, museum research, science and expertise research, and sociology. Whatever their method, tasks must be primarily based on authentic interdisciplinary analysis and goal to talk to a large viewers.

Benefits

• Visiting Fellows will obtain return (economic system fare) journey from the scholar’s home establishment, in accordance with the University’s journey coverage. CRASSH will even cowl the price of a visa, if required.
• CRASSH will even guide and canopy the price of single ensuite lodging will probably be offered at Wolfson College. Wolfson College will waive its normal membership payment and supply free entry to the faculty library, gymnasium, and social areas, in addition to participation in actions open to varsity members. Fellows could take meals in the faculty Dining Hall at their very own expense.
• As this scheme is open to students already employed at the next schooling establishment, it’s assumed that almost all on a regular basis bills will probably be met via their wage; nonetheless, a subsistence allowance of £175 per week is offered to assist with the prices of meals and native journey, which can be increased in the UK than in the applicant’s nation of residence.
• Each Visiting Fellow can have desk house and laptop entry at CRASSH, together with full entry to the University’s libraries, collections, and tutorial occasions hosted by CRASSH and different University establishments.
• The in-individual Fellowship have to be held for a minimal of 9 weeks, and could also be prolonged to 12 weeks if the Fellow needs. It will probably be adopted by a 9-month digital Fellowship, offering continued entry to the University’s on-line occasions and sources.

Eligibility

• Applicants have to be presently employed at the next schooling establishment or a analysis institute positioned in the Global South, on at the least a 50% contract, and dealing primarily inside the arts, humanities, or social sciences. For the functions of this Fellowship scheme, ‘Global South’ is outlined as these nations which are included in the OECD’s record of nations receiving Official Development Assistance.
• Applicants ought to have been awarded a PhD at the least 5 years earlier than the date of application.
• Applicants should have a stage of spoken English that may permit them to interact actively in dialogue on matters of educational curiosity.

Application

The following paperwork are required: 

• A curriculum vitae – see the hooked up guidance document
• A letter of help from your Head of Department (or equal), confirming that go away of absence will probably be granted by your establishment for the full interval of the Fellowship
• Answers to the following three application questions:
  • Why do you want to apply for this Visiting Fellowship? What advantages would spending a time period at CRASSH and the University of Cambridge convey you? (max. 500 phrases)
  • What analysis will you be conducting whereas in Cambridge? Please give a top level view of your present venture and clarify which part(s) of it you propose to hold out throughout the time period of your Visiting Fellowship. (max. 1000 phrases)
  • The Visiting Fellows appointed underneath this scheme will probably be requested to work collectively to design an occasion, to happen throughout the time period you might be in Cambridge, which is able to present an OPPORTUNITY for you to current your personal analysis, alongside others. What concepts would you recommend for the theme and format or such an occasion? (max. 400 phrases)

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For extra info, go to CRASSH.