British Council 90th Anniversary Research Fellowships at the University of Edinburgh 2027 – YOA

Deadline: July 31, 2026

Applications are open for the British Council ninetieth Anniversary Research Fellowships at the University of Edinburgh 2027. Under a brand new British Council partnership with the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, they’re awarding a collection of 12-month postdoctoral fellowships for worldwide early-profession researchers. Fellowships will start in January 2027. This is a 3-yr partnership from 2025 to 2027.

Fellows will spend the first ten months of their Fellowships at IASH, adopted by as much as two months primarily based of their home international locations targeted on data change and dissemination in collaboration with the British Council.

Benefits

A 2027 British Council ninetieth Anniversary Research Fellowship supplies:

• Research go to at the University of Edinburgh for ten months, adopted by as much as two months primarily based of their home international locations targeted on data change and dissemination
• Bursary of £2,500 per thirty days for 12 months
• Dedicated workplace area, University e-mail and library entry
• A University mentor from an space related to the Fellows’ analysis pursuits
• Weekly Fellows’ Lunch to construct group
• Collegial work-in-progress seminar collection for testing new concepts
• Calendar of partaking occasions at the Institute and College
• Opportunities to take part in and design funded workshops, colloquia, and so on at the Institute

Eligibility

• Applicants have to be primarily based in an ODA-recipient nation the place the British Council operates and be certified to undertake postdoctoral degree analysis for this early profession Fellowship, which means they should have a PhD, accomplished inside the final seven years (factoring in profession breaks, e.g. intervals of parental depart or time away from academia).
• Research subjects needs to be related to the areas of precedence throughout Arts, Education and the English language which can be outlined in the technique, and to areas of cross-slicing strategic British Council curiosity comparable to worldwide relations and smooth energy, worldwide growth and peace constructing, and cultural relations and cultural diplomacy.
• You shouldn’t have held a everlasting place at a college, or a earlier Fellowship at IASH. Those who’ve held non permanent, recurring and/or brief-time period employment are eligible to apply. If you could have taken parental depart or different time away from academia, this won’t depend in direction of the seven-yr restrict, however we ask that you simply present temporary particulars of why and for a way lengthy you weren’t working.

Assessment Criteria

Applications shall be thought of by an evaluation panel comprised of University of Edinburgh and British Council employees. Assessment will take account of the extent to which candidates meet the following standards:

• A analysis and/or skilled background and educational file that pertains to broad thematic remit of the programme
• A analysis proposal with clear potential to help the British Council’s goals for the programme
• Demonstrable expertise of partaking non-educational audiences and stakeholders in analysis (e.g. by means of engagement with coverage makers, practitioners, artists or different public audiences)
• A transparent dedication to data change and dissemination as part of the fellowship and past the timeframe of the fellowship itself, primarily based on the networks, insights and learnings developed by means of their analysis

Application

• In addition to the application type, CV and analysis proposal, a cowl letter outlining how the Fellowship will help the British Council’s goals for this programme is required, in addition to a minimal of two and a most of three confidential references.
• Applicants ought to ask their referees to e mail their reference to the Director at [email protected] by the deadline. If references should not acquired by this date, your application can’t be thought of.
• Referees ought to touch upon the nature and high quality of the analysis proposal, in addition to on the {qualifications} of the applicant. One referee ought to certify the profitable viva (defence) and last examination of the candidate’s PhD thesis.

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For extra info, go to British Council 90th Anniversary Research Fellowships.