CRASSH Visiting Fellowships for Scholars from the Global South 2027 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: January 22, 2027

Applications are open for the CRASSH Visiting Fellowships for Scholars from the Global South 2027. The Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge is inviting functions for funded Visiting Fellowships for students from the Global South.

The goal of those Fellowships is to supply alternatives for students working at increased training establishments in the Global South to change concepts with different researchers based mostly at CRASSH and elsewhere in the University of Cambridge and to attract profit from entry to the University’s collections and assets. It is hoped that these visits will lead on to future collaborations and exchanges.

Music Bodies & Ecologies

For 2028, CRASSH will companion with the Faculty of Music.

Since antiquity, music has had an advanced relationship with the physique and the broader ecologies surrounding it. On the one hand, music has been integral to types of celebration, sacred worship, track and dance throughout huge cultural geographies. Yet on the different hand, music has usually been understood as suspect for its potential for extra. In our present second of mounting ecological and different crises, new criticism and questions have arisen about whether or not music has any significant function to play in cultivating sustainable and regenerative types of life.

They invite functions that discover these questions of music and its connections to human our bodies and to broader ecologies past the human. They welcome proposals coping with any musical custom/tradition, however particularly encourage functions from students engaged on musical practices past the Western artwork music custom. Some areas of analysis that could be notably related embrace:

• music and listening as bodily practices
• music and dance
• music and ritual
• music and bodily presence, together with shared co-presence and neighborhood
• music and the surroundings
• Black and Indigenous ecomusicological thought and practices
• music and time (doubtlessly together with ‘deep time’, seasonality, and life cycles)
• music, sound and voice
• non secular and different cosmologies of music/sound and the broader world round us
• extra-than-human musical practices (together with non-human animals, crops, and geology)
• music and technological mediation, together with the digital and synthetic intelligence
• music pedagogy and the disciplining/coaching of the physique

Benefits

• Visiting Fellows will obtain return (financial system fare) journey from the scholar’s home establishment, in accordance with the University’s journey coverage. CRASSH may even cowl the price of a visa, if required.
• CRASSH may even guide and canopy the price of single ensuite lodging will likely be offered at Wolfson College. Wolfson College will waive its regular membership price and supply free entry to the faculty library, gymnasium, and social areas, in addition to participation in actions open to varsity members. Fellows might take meals in the faculty Dining Hall at their very own expense.
• As this scheme is open to students already employed at a better training establishment, it’s assumed that the majority on a regular basis bills will likely be met by their wage; nonetheless, a subsistence allowance of £175 per week is offered to assist with the prices of meals and native journey, which can be increased in the UK than in the applicant’s nation of residence.
• Each Visiting Fellow could have desk area and laptop entry at CRASSH, together with full entry to the University’s libraries, collections, and educational occasions hosted by CRASSH and different University establishments.
• The in-individual Fellowship have to be held for a minimal of 9 weeks, and could also be prolonged to 12 weeks if the Fellow needs. It will likely be adopted by a 9-month digital Fellowship, offering continued entry to the University’s on-line occasions and assets.

Eligibility

• Applicants have to be presently employed at a better training establishment or a analysis institute situated in the Global South, on a minimum of a 50% contract, and dealing primarily inside the arts, humanities, or social sciences. For the functions of this Fellowship scheme, ‘Global South’ is outlined as these international locations which can be included in the OECD’s record of nations receiving Official Development Assistance.
• Applicants ought to have been awarded a PhD a minimum of 5 years earlier than the date of application.
• Applicants should have a stage of spoken English that may permit them to have interaction actively in dialogue on subjects of educational curiosity.

Application

Applications have to be submitted through the on-line application system by the deadline indicated. Register or log in to your application on the proper-hand facet of this web page. The following paperwork are required: 

• A canopy letter, explaining why you wish to be thought of for a Fellowship at CRASSH.
• Acurriculum vitae –  use the template equipped. Applications with CVs in various codecs will likely be thought of ineligible.
• A replica of your PhD certificates, confirming that your PhD has been formally awarded and clearly exhibiting the date of award.
• A letter of help from your Head of Department (or equal), confirming that depart of absence will likely be granted by your establishment for the full interval of the Fellowship.
• A pattern of written work – please add a brief textual content (e.g. a journal article or guide chapter) you might have already revealed on a subject related to your analysis proposal.
• A analysis proposal – please define in as much as 1500 phrases the analysis undertaking you intend to undertake throughout your Fellowship at CRASSH.
• • Your proposal ought to clearly establish a central analysis downside or query and clarify the authentic contribution your undertaking seeks to make to current data or understanding. We are notably fascinated by how your undertaking emerges from your earlier work, and the way it builds on or challenges current scholarship.
  • Please clarify the particular sources, supplies, proof or circumstances you plan to research, the method you’ll take, and the way these will allow you to deal with your analysis questions. Your proposal also needs to clarify what part of the undertaking you’d purpose to finish throughout the Fellowship. We are trying for proposals that reveal unbiased mental judgement, a effectively-developed understanding of the analysis downside, and a transparent rationale for the selections underpinning the undertaking. We worth precision, originality and important engagement over broad claims about the significance or novelty of the proposed analysis.

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