British Academy International Fellowships 2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: March 11, 2026

Applications are open for the British Academy International Fellowships 2026. The International Fellowships programme offers help for excellent early profession researchers to make a primary step in direction of creating an impartial analysis profession via gaining expertise throughout worldwide borders. Each award is anticipated to contain a particular and guarded analysis focus with the award holder enterprise prime quality, unique analysis. This scheme is collectively run by the British Academy and the Royal Society.

The overarching goal of the International Fellowships programme is to draw and retain rising expertise within the UK and construct a globally linked, cellular analysis and innovation workforce. The targets are to:

• Attract gifted International early profession researchers to determine and conduct their analysis within the UK;
• Support early profession researchers to pursue excessive-high quality and revolutionary strains of analysis;
• Provide alternatives to amass and switch new abilities and information via coaching and profession growth;
• Foster lengthy-time period relationships via networking alternatives and the International Fellowships alumni programme.

Benefits

• The International Fellowships provide help for 2 years and the award is obtainable at 80% FEC. Applicants might apply for analysis bills of as much as £12,000 and relocation prices of as much as £8,000. Applicants might want to justify the extent of analysis bills and relocation prices requested of their application.
• Applicants might also be eligible to obtain comply with on Alumni funding following the tenure of their Fellowship to help networking actions with UK-based mostly or worldwide researchers.

Eligibility

The applicant should:

• Have a PhD, or candidates within the ultimate levels of their PhD will probably be accepted supplied that the PhD will probably be accomplished (together with viva) earlier than the Final Awards Committee meets on the 1 June 2026.
• Applicants shouldn’t have any greater than 5 years of lively full time postdoctoral expertise on the time of application (discounting profession breaks, however together with instructing expertise and/or time spent in business).
• Be working exterior the UK.
• Not maintain UK citizenship.
• Be competent in oral and written English.
• Have a clearly outlined and mutually-helpful analysis proposal agreed with a UK host researcher.

Application

Read the scheme guidance rigorously earlier than making use of.

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For extra data, go to British Academy International Fellowships.