Chevening Southeast Europe British Library Fellowship 2026-2027 – YOA

Deadline: May 15, 2026

Applications are open for the Chevening British Library Fellowships 2026. The Chevening Southeast Europe British Library Fellowship provides one distinctive candidate the OPPORTUNITY to steer a analysis mission and produce a spread of outputs, together with knowledge evaluation, weblog posts, and a group information.

Fellows can have the chance to:

• Improve and enrich catalogue information for Southeast European collections (for instance, updating language data, publication particulars, contributor information, and topic classes)
• Develop sensible approaches to analysing massive collections of knowledge to determine tendencies, strengths, and gaps
• Contribute analysis and create accessible guides to assist others higher perceive the historic Southeast European collections

Benefits

• 12-month interval of mission-based mostly exercise on the British Library 
• Living bills at some stage in the fellowship 
• Return economic system airfare  
• Allowance package deal for fellowship-associated actions
• Up to £1,000 for authorised mission-associated bills

Eligibility

• Be a citizen of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, and Turkey and be a resident in considered one of these international locations on the level of application 
• Have superior proficiency in at the least two languages of Southeast Europe, together with Albanian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian, Romanian, Serbian, and Slovenian 
• Have a postgraduate degree qualification (or equal skilled coaching or expertise in a related space) on the time of application 
• Have vital skilled and/or tutorial analysis expertise (at the least 5 years) 
• Be presently employed or a presently enrolled PhD candidate (PhD should not be with a UK/EU or USA college) 
• Experience working with massive datasets and/or computational strategies within the library and data context 
• Experience working with 18th-twentieth century printed books
• Strong curiosity within the historical past and tradition of the Balkan area 
• Excellent humanities analysis abilities working in a collections/information setting
• Familiarity with library metadata requirements is fascinating, particularly expertise with MARC21, RDA, and using LCSH inside an built-in library system 

Application

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For extra data, go to Chevening Southeast Europe British Library Fellowship.