AKO UAL Storytelling Research Fellowship 2026/2027 – YOA

Deadline: September 11, 2026

Applications are open for the AKO UAL Storytelling Research Fellowship 2026/2027. The Storytelling Research Fellowship is a programme from the UAL AKO Storytelling Institute, in partnership with the Power of Pop Fund at Comic Relief. It helps unique analysis into how fashionable tradition creates social and environmental change—
throughout inventive media together with tv, movie, video games, music, social media, podcasts, comics, publishing and digital content material.

The programme goals to construct a stronger proof base for understanding how, when and why fashionable tradition creates significant social change. Research ought to be rigorous and virtually helpful — primarily to creatives, and secondarily to funders, broadcasters, civil society organisations and campaigners.

The targets of the Fellowship are to:

• Deepen understanding of how fashionable tradition influences beliefs, behaviours, attitudes and public discourse
• Support unique analysis into the mechanisms and situations by means of which tales contribute to social and environmental change
• Produce insights helpful to these producing cultural content material, and to these in social justice organisations, commissioning, funding and analysis
• Encourage analysis that mixes mental rigour with accessible, public-dealing with dissemination
• Bring fellows collectively by means of workshops, analysis steering and a closing symposium to share studying throughout trigger areas

Benefits

• They provide a 9-month employment contract for 2 days per week (0.4 FTE), beginning in November 2026, at an annual wage of £48,563 (professional rata). The wage payable for the 9-month contract is £19,425, topic to PAYE and National Insurance contributions.

Eligibility

All candidates should:

• Have the best to work within the UK at some point of the Fellowship.
• Be in London for the kick off assembly and mid-level workshop in-individual.
• Be in a position to decide to the entire programme.
• Propose an unique analysis undertaking and have an curiosity particularly within the influence of fashionable tradition and in making a difference with their work. All analysis outputs mustn’t have been beforehand printed.
• Be fluent in English.

Application

Application ought to embody:

• CV
• Record of analysis outputs (present hyperlinks the place obtainable)
• Research proposal most 1000 – 1200 phrases
• Supporting assertion together with at the least one instance of a analysis undertaking you’ve designed and delivered.

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For extra data, go to Storytelling Research Fellowship.