British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Faculty of Arts at the University of Warwick encourages outstanding postdoctoral scholars to apply to The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme, for Fellowships hosted at Warwick starting in the 2024/25 academic year.

The Faculty is one of the world’s top 50 Arts and Humanities faculties and is home to a thriving research culture spread across six Departments and Schools. These are Classics and Ancient History; English and Comparative Literary Studies; History; Modern Languages and Cultures; Cross-Faculty Studies; and the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures, which includes Film and Television Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, History of Art, the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, and the Warwick Writing Programme. The Faculty also hosts a number of outstanding research centres, including the Yesu Persaud Centre for Caribbean Studies and the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. Further information about each of these and the Faculty’s research can be found here: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/research/.

Applications are welcomed from candidates who have a strong research profile and meet the following eligibility criteria:

• Applicants are expected to have completed their viva voce between 1 April 2022 and 1 April 2025.
• They must either be a UK/EEA national, have completed their doctorate at a UK university or have a strong prior association with the UK academic community
• They must not yet have held a permanent academic appointment
• Appointments at the University of Warwick are dependent on the award of the Fellowship. The expectation is that Fellows should undertake a significant piece of publishable work during the funded period. For more information on the scheme’s aims and eligibility criteria, please visit https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/postdoctoral-fellowships/

Prospective applicants are required to identify an academic mentor at the University of Warwick. Candidates should approach their mentor to discuss the project at the earliest opportunity.

Applications will require approval from the proposed host department. For this, candidates will need to send the following information by email to Colette Kelly, Research Support Officer for the Faculty of Arts (Colette.Kelly@warwick.ac.uk) by 5pm on Wednesday 28^th August 2024 for the purpose of an internal selection round:  

• A short description of their proposed project (maximum 2 A4 pages)
• A copy of their CV (maximum 2 A4 pages)
• The name of their proposed mentor at the University of Warwick
• The name of their referee (please note that referees will not need to provide a statement for the internal selection round).

If their application is approved, candidates will be invited to submit their full proposal through Flexi-Grant, the British Academy’s application portal. They will be supported in this process by the University’s Research and Impact Services team. For more information about this and for any other enquiries about the scheme, please contact Colette Kelly on the above email address. The deadline for submissions to the British Academy is Wednesday, 2^nd October 2024.