The #British Academy: Funding Call – Visiting Fellowships 2025

Funding Call – Visiting Fellowships 2025

The British Academy is inviting applications from international researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to develop collaborative research projects with UK colleagues based at UK higher education or research institutions.

Aims

The Visiting Fellowships programme illustrates the British Academy’s ongoing commitment to international academic engagement.

Through this programme, the Academy aims to:

• Enhance and build new links between scholars from around the globe and in the UK

• Foster opportunities and encourage the development of new and future partnerships for collaborative research into the humanities and social sciences

• Enable academics from across the globe to undertake research and/or professional development with UK colleagues

• Strengthen the UK’s research bases in the humanities and the social sciences

Eligibility requirements

Visiting Fellows must be of postdoctoral level or above or have equivalent research experience at the time of application. Candidates should be based outside of the UK at the time of application. Applicants may be on permanent or fixed-term contracts. Fixed-term contracts must not end before the end date of the Visiting Fellowship. Independent scholars are also welcome to apply.

Applicants must demonstrate that they have been in contact with their UK host institution prior to applying. Please note that the British Academy is not able to assist with locating or facilitating contact with a UK host institution.

For more details about the Visiting Fellowship programme, including eligibility requirements, please see the scheme notes.

Value and duration

Visiting Fellowships are available for a period of between three to six months. Applicants will be asked to provide their preferred start date for their Fellowship over the spring and summer (March-August 2025).

The maximum funding available is £40,000.

Application process

Applications must be submitted online using the British Academy’s Grant Management System (GMS), Flexi-Grant®.

The deadline for applications is 17:00 (BST) on Wednesday 23 October 2024.

Contact details

For any queries, please get in touch with the International team at the British Academy.

Email: internationalgrants@thebritishacademy.ac.uk