The British Academy Global Professorships programme

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Deadline: 6 March 2019
Open to: world-class internationally-recognized mid-career to senior researchers who are currently employed outside the United Kingdom and hold a doctoral degree (or have equivalent research experience)
Benefits: the British Academy will provide funding of up to GBP 187,500 per annum, and up to GBP 750,000 over four years

Description

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 relocate for a period of four years to the UK and make a contribution to UK research and higher education.

Each four-year appointment is intended to be a complete project in itself and is expected to involve a specific research focus, although the British Academy does not have a preferred model for the balance of time to be spent between research and teaching (which may vary over the course of the award and will depend on the UK host institution’s needs).

The aim of the programme is to enable world-class internationally-recognized established scholars to further their individual research goals while strengthening the UK research base and advancing the research goals and strategies of their UK host institutions.

Eligibility

Applicants must:

  • Be a world-class internationally-recognised mid-career to senior researchers who are currently employed outside the United Kingdom, on a permanent contract (which may be part-time or full-time) or, if temporary, would normally be on a contract that will not end during the course of the grant unless expressly agreed with the Academy prior to the application being submitted that such an application would be considered eligible, in any field of the humanities or the social sciences;
  • Hold a doctoral degree (or have equivalent research experience);
  • Be available to take up an unpaid leave of absence, a long-term secondment or employment at an eligible UK host institution. Eligible institutions include but are not limited to the British International Research Institutes.

Benefits

Awards are for a period of 4 years.

The British Academy will provide funding of up to GBP 187,500 per annum, and up to GBP 750,000 over four years.

The host UK institution will be expected to contribute GBP 37,500 per annum (20% of the Academy’s annual contribution) to help support the applicant’s salary in each of the four years.

How to apply?

Applications must be submitted online using the British Academy’s grants application system, Flexi-Grant.

For more detailed information, please visit the official web page.