[STS-Africa] Fwd: Global Professorships - The British Academy

[gianluca.miscione at ucd.ie]

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.

The Global Professorships are awards for individuals in an institutional
setting. Applications must be for new, coherent and cutting-edge projects.
The Global Professorships are expected to add significant value to the UK
host institutions and vice versa, and thus the projects must be significant,
leading to novel and innovative collaborations.

With the Global Professorships, the Academy is looking to support academics
that are proposing ambitious, beyond the state-of-the-art applications that
break new ground. The Academy views the Global Professorships as an
opportunity to apply to undertake high-risk, curiosity-driven research in
the humanities and social sciences that enables the award-holders and their
UK host institutions to achieve a step-change in their respective research
programmes.

Aims

The aim of the programme is to attract internationally-recognised
established scholars to further their individual research goals while
enhancing the UK’s commitment to international research partnerships and
collaboration and is intended to strengthen the UK’s research excellence and
capability in the humanities and the social sciences.

Eligibility Requirements

*	Applicants must hold a doctoral degree (or have equivalent research
experience).
*	Applicants must be available to take up an unpaid leave of absence,
a long-term secondment or employment at an eligible UK institution. If this
is unclear from an applicant’s national setting, then the Academy welcomes
communication with applicants prior to applications being submitted.
Eligible institutions include but are not limited to the British
International Research Institutes.
*	Awards are only available to individuals, to be held in an
institutional context. Co-applicants are not permitted.
*	Awards will not be made retrospectively: this means that the work
for which support is requested must not have commenced before the award is
announced. Applications must be for new research ideas that are coherent on
their own and are cutting-edge.
*	Applicants are required to provide a formal statement of support
from a senior member of their proposed host institution in the UK (normally
expected to be a Pro-Vice-Chancellor or equivalent, or at minimum Head of
Department/Faculty/Institute).
*	Applicants are required to nominate one academic referee who is not
based at the UK host institution or at the overseas institution at which the
applicant is based at the time of application and is not involved in the
programme of research and other activities submitted as part of the
application. The statement must be provided on letter-headed paper, and must
be signed and dated by the referee.

Value and duration

Awards are expected to run for four years each from a starting date to be
agreed with the British Academy. The starting date must not be before 1
September 2022 or after 1 February 2023.

The Academy will provide up to £900,000 per award.

Application Process

Applications must be submitted online using the British Academy's Grant
Management System, Flexi-Grant®.

Application and referee / head of department statements deadline and current
UK host institution approval deadline: Wednesday 27 April 2022, 17:00 BST.

This programme is funded by the UK's Department for Business, Energy and
Industrial Strategy.

 

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/global-professorships

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