Fellowships

The Institute of the Americas visiting-fellowship programmes allow scholars to participate in and enhance the work of the Institute and thus strengthen national and international research partnerships. Details of visiting-fellowship schemes and how to apply for them can be found below..

Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorships

This scheme allow eminent senior professors from overseas, to bring genuinely novel expertise and enhance the skills and knowledge of academic staff and students in an underrepresented area in the UK.

Accepting applications on a rolling basis.

Please follow link for more details about the departmental application process and deadlines.

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships

A scheme aimed at early career researchers, with a research record but who have not yet held a full-time permanent academic post, to undertake a significant piece of publishable work.

*** Pre-applications to host institution are now closed ***

Please follow link for more details about the departmental application process and deadlines.

Wellcome Trust Early-Career Awards

This scheme provides funding for early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity.

*** Pre-applications to host institution are now closed ***

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British Academy Global Professorships

This programme provides mid-career to senior scholars – active in any discipline within the social sciences and the humanities and based in any country overseas – with the opportunity to work in the UK for four years.

*** Pre-applications to host institution are now closed ***

Please follow link for more details about the departmental application process and deadlines.

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship

The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships are three-year Fellowship awards made to an annual cohort of outstanding Early Career Scholars.

*** Pre-applications to host institution are now closed ***

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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowship

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of PhD researchers who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility.

*** Applications to this scheme are now closed ***

Please follow link for more details, informal enquiries for future years are welcome!

British Academy International Fellowships

*** Applications to this scheme are now closed *** The International Fellowships Programme provides support for outstanding early career researchers to make a first step towards developing an independent research career through gaining experience across international borders. Each award is expected to involve a specific and protected research focus with the award-holder undertaking high quality, original research.

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships

*** Applications to this scheme are now closed *** ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships are aimed at those in the immediate postdoctoral stage of their career, to provide the opportunity to consolidate their PhD through developing publications, their networks, and their research and professional skills.