Call for Researchers: KB Fellowship at NIAS 2026 – YOA

Deadline: March 16, 2026

Applications are open for the KB Fellowship at NIAS 2026. The KB Fellowship at NIAS provides researchers the OPPORTUNITY to work on any subject that’s pertinent to a future-oriented performance of the (public) library and/or the sustainability of the library as a public establishment and pillar of liberal democracy. The KB Fellowship at NIAS was established in cooperation between NIAS and the KB National Library of the Netherlands in 2025 and is meant for proficient researchers in all scholarly and creative disciplines.

During the fellowship, researchers are given the chance to work on any subject that sits at a cross part with- or broadens the scope of the KB analysis agenda. The name is open to proposals addressing societal and sensible challenges reaching past the KB as nationwide library and even the library discipline, in addition to to these specializing in issues pertaining to the (digital) collections or different points of the nationwide library per se. The name particularly invites proposals addressing their subject from a world (comparative) perspective.

Fellows be a part of a stimulating worldwide educational neighborhood at NIAS in Amsterdam the place they could profit from interdisciplinary collaboration with students from the humanities and social sciences. Fellows at NIAS are enabled to pay attention totally on the study of their chosen subject whereas being dedicated not solely to their very own, but additionally to one another’s work and progress.

Fellowship

• The KB provides one 5-month fellowship per 12 months at NIAS (September 2026 to January 2027).
• Fellows obtain a private stipend or, for students affiliated to a Dutch college or analysis institute, a Dutch University grant, given to the establishment.
• Fellows are supplied with an workplace within the NIAS constructing, together with analysis amenities, and (the place eligible) subsidised lodging in Amsterdam.
• A residency at the Institute constitutes a full-time dedication and fellows are anticipated to be current at the Institute 4 workdays per week from the opening of their semester till the tip of their semester.

Eligibility

• Open to scholarly researchers, with or with out institutional affiliation, with at least 3 years of analysis expertise after having obtained their PhD (on the deadline of the decision) and to artistic practitioners, with or with out institutional affiliation, with at least 3 years of impartial artwork apply since formal commencement or equal. Note that artists are welcome for creative manufacturing as a analysis technique and for pre-manufacturing analysis. NIAS doesn’t provide ateliers nor supplies or instruments for creative manufacturing.
• The working language at NIAS is English. Applicants should have a very good command of English to contribute successfully to the fellows group and obtain enter on their very own analysis.

Application

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For extra data, go to KB Fellowship at NIAS.