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We welcome applications from post-doctoral, mid-career and senior scholars to become non-stipendiary Visiting Research Fellows at the Institute of Advanced Studies.
Call for applications
We welcome applications from post-doctoral, mid-career and senior scholars to become non-stipendiary Visiting Research Fellows at the Institute of Advanced Studies to spend between three months and one year with us.
What the IAS offers you:
- Desk space
- Membership of the IAS community and Common Ground
- Access to UCL resources, including seminars, events and the library
- Full participation in IAS events
- Opportunities to meet colleagues from all areas of a large multi-disciplinary university
What the IAS expects from you:
- Participation in IAS-generated research-based activities
- Involvement in the IAS intellectual community, including working with PhD students
- In-person attendance at weekly IAS Residential Seminars (N.B. not remotely)
- Delivery of one IAS Residential Seminar
- Presentation of your research (as appropriate) in IAS forums
- Contributions to other IAS events/platforms as invited
- Generation of ideas and events for scheduling at IAS
- Acknowledgement of the IAS in any publications resulting from research done during the period of the appointment
All new Visiting Research Fellows will have a Right To Work check carried out when they arrive (this is required, even though it is a non-stipendiary position), so if you are coming from overseas please ensure that you are travelling on the correct visa. You can check on the UK government website if you need a visa and how to prove your Right to Work in the UK.
If you wish to apply, please complete this application form and equal opportunities monitoring form, and e-mail it to Catherine Stokes, along with a short (two-page) CV and a sample article or book chapter, already published, in PDF format.
Please note that we do not accept old versions of the application form for this scheme. Please use the one above.