Chevening British Library Coptic Collections Fellowship 2027 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: October 27, 2026

Applications are open for the Chevening British Library Coptic Collections Fellowship 2027. The Chevening British Library Coptic Collections Fellowship is co-funded by the British Library and the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. It is open to functions from mid-profession professionals from Egypt, Palestine, and Sudan, who’ve a robust curiosity in Coptic manuscript heritage and cultural collections.

The British Library holds one of many world’s most important collections of Coptic manuscripts, comprising a whole lot of full and fragmentary codices, in addition to papyrus, parchment, and paper fragments documenting greater than 1,500 years of Coptic historical past, theology, and literary tradition. This internationally vital assortment supplies distinctive insights into the historical past of Christianity, Egypt’s cultural heritage, manuscript manufacturing, and scholarly traditions.

The fellowship will happen on the British Library, the place you’ll work intently with Dr. Michael Erdman, Head of Asian and African Studies (interim) to steer a analysis challenge. You will use your language expertise, topic experience, {and professional} expertise to survey the British Library’s Coptic holdings, improve catalogue data, examine assortment provenance, and develop new alternatives for public and neighborhood engagement.

Benefits

Each fellowship contains:

• 12-month interval of challenge-primarily based exercise on the British Library
• Living bills during the fellowship
• Return financial system airfare
• Allowance bundle for fellowship-associated actions
• Up to £1,000 for permitted challenge-associated bills

Eligibility

• Be residents of Egypt, Sudan, or Palestine. Applicants ought to usually be resident in considered one of these nations, nevertheless residents of those nations who’re resident elsewhere within the Middle East and North Africa area in Chevening eligible, ODA-eligible nations (Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen) can also apply. Applicants should exhibit a transparent intention to return to and contribute to their nation of citizenship following the fellowship and should return there for a minimum of one 12 months after the fellowship ends.
• 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 educational analysis expertise (a minimum of 5 years).
• Be presently employed or enrolled as a PhD candidate (your PhD should not be with a UK/EU or USA college).
• Have wonderful data of Coptic (Sahidic or Bohairic), with data of Arabic and/or Greek fascinating.
• Have good written and spoken English, with the flexibility to speak analysis findings successfully.
• Have expertise of cataloguing and dealing with manuscript collections, with data of manuscript description requirements.
• Have expertise of provenance analysis and documentation, or a demonstrable curiosity on this space.
• Have expertise of working with heritage communities or delivering engagement actions associated to cultural heritage collections.

Application

Applications are open till 27 October 2026, at 12:00 (UTC). The period of this fellowship is 12 months.

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For extra info, go to Chevening British Library Coptic Collections Fellowship.