CaribOx Visiting Fellowship Scheme 2027 – YOA

Deadline: September 15, 2026

Applications are open for the CaribOx Visiting Fellowship Scheme 2027. CaribOx is a visiting fellowship and travel-grant programme designed to assist researchers throughout all disciplines primarily based at Caribbean analysis establishments and to facilitate collaborations with researchers primarily based on the University of Oxford. They welcome purposes from all educational disciplines and strongly encourage purposes from researchers from minoritised teams (together with however not restricted to gender/class/ethnic background).

The elected fellows will probably be affiliated with the University of Oxford for twelve months ranging from January 2027. This will embrace a ten month-lengthy digital engagement, and a two month in-particular person go to to Oxford, which is able to happen between Sunday, twenty fifth April to Saturday, nineteenth June 2027 (Trinity Term).

Fellowship

The fellowship contains:

• Ten months of digital engagement with the nominated Oxford collaborator.
• A two month in-particular person go to to Oxford between Sunday, twenty fifth April to Saturday nineteenth June 2027.
• A University Card for entry to on-line sources accessible via the University of Oxford, legitimate for 1 calendar yr.
• A per-diem in the direction of the price of subsistence whereas in Oxford.
• The full price of return economic system-class flights to/from the UK.
• Association and lodging via All Souls College throughout residency in Oxford. This will embrace membership of the Common Room (which supplies entry to a typical house reserved for the usage of lecturers and members of the educating employees, in addition to the precise to eat lunch and dinner with out cost).
• Visa application and logistical assist for journey to/from Oxford.
• Support and facilitation for digital occasions and actions via TORCH.

Eligibility

• Applications are open to researchers in all disciplines.
• Applicants are anticipated to:
  • Hold a PhD or equal.
  • Be a authorized resident of a Caribbean nation (together with the Windward and Leeward Islands).
  • Be totally employed by an instructional establishment primarily based within the Caribbean (together with the Windward and Leeward Islands). The applicant’s contract of employment ought to cowl the size of the Fellowship.
  • In compliance with UK visa rules, decide to return to the Caribbean following the CaribOx Fellowship residency in Oxford.
  • Have an present collaboration or keep in touch with a possible collaborator at Oxford previous to the application deadline.
  • Arrange and supply proof of related approvals by their home establishments associated to taking over the Fellowship.
  • Possess a minimal of intermediate information of English.

Evaluation Criteria

Applications will probably be assessed on the next standards:

• Quality of the analysis proposal.
• The assertion of assist by the Oxford-based analysis collaborator.
• Potential outcomes, together with longer-time period alternatives for collaboration.
• The relation of the proposed challenge to a candidate’s profession trajectory.
• Account will probably be taken of what different analysis funding the candidate is eligible to apply for. 

Application

• Ensure you might be eligible to apply.
• Contact your proposed Oxford collaborator forward of constructing your application. If you don’t at present have Oxford collaborator, seek the advice of the college web site on the divisions and division of the college to search out one: https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/divisions-and-departments. They count on potential candidates to have made contact with an Oxford collaborator forward of the application. The CaribOx Programme Officer is accessible to reply basic questions on Oxford departments, divisions, and schools, although they do count on extra detailed disciplinary inquiries to be directed particularly to potential Oxford collaborators.
• Request your Oxford Collaborator to finish the assertion of assist kind and submit it through electronic mail to: [email protected] earlier than the deadline, Tuesday, fifteenth September 2026, 17.00 UK time. Applications with no assertion of assist from an Oxford-based researcher will probably be disqualified.
• Fill out the application kind in English. This contains submitting a analysis proposal that clearly outlines the proposed work to be undertaken through the Fellowship. Download the Application Form CaribOx Visiting Fellowship 2027
• Attach a CV. Make certain so as to add details about any profession breaks or related in your CV. They welcome purposes from those that have taken a non-conventional path to academia or who’ve taken profession breaks.
• Request a letter of assist to your application from the Academic Dean, or equal, on the establishment you might be employed by, to be submitted to [email protected] by Tuesday, fifteenth September, 17.00 BST  
• Submit the application kind, the letter of assist from a senior member of employees on the establishment you’re employed for, and your CV through electronic mail to: [email protected] earlier than the deadline, Tuesday, fifteenth September 2026, 17.00 UK time. Kindly embrace your identify and ‘CaribOx Visiting Fellowship’ within the topic title of your electronic mail.

For extra data, go to CaribOx Visiting Fellowship.