British Academy Visiting Fellowships

This programme enables academics from any country overseas to be based at a UK higher education or other research institution of their choice for up to six months and develop collaborative projects with UK colleagues.

• Funding status: Open for applications
• Career stage: Postdoctoral or equivalent research

Funded by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

More about the programme

The British Academy’s Visiting Fellowships programme provides outstanding academics based in any country overseas with the opportunity to be based at a UK higher education or other research institution. The programme is open to academics at any career stage, and in any discipline within the humanities and social sciences.

Aims

Visiting Fellowships illustrate the British Academy’s profound and on-going commitment to international engagement. The aim of this programme is to ensure that the UK remains an attractive, welcoming, and productive research environment for academics globally. 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
• To enable academics from across the globe to undertake research and/or professional development with UK colleagues;
• And 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 of facilitating contact with a UK host institution.

The British Academy welcomes applications from a diverse range of UK host institutions, and would particularly encourage applications from historically and/or structurally disadvantaged groups, low-income countries, and female researchers.

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 3 to 6 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®.

Deadline

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