We are delighted that the British Academy International Fellowships 2025 are now open for applications. The University of Manchester is especially keen to sponsor applicants from the global South. 

The 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. The programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

Researchers are required to prepare the application with a host organisation. The Global Development Institute (GDI) is keen to sponsor applicants from the global South, acting as host and providing a supervisor who would offer support and mentoring.

GDI produces and co-produces research that extends knowledge frontiers, driven by the desire to advance social justice on a global scale. We achieve this by conducting world-class, interdisciplinary, research that critically and rigorously advances development theory. We work closely with a wide range of researchers from the global South and this fellowship would be an excellent opportunity to extend this.

If you are interested in applying, please contact Odile Masiá, GDI research manager, by Friday 14th February.

Call details can be found here and below:

Indicative timeline

British Academy submission deadline: 18th March 2025 – 5pm GMT

Earliest start date: 1st October 2025

Application criteria

The applicant must:

• Have a PhD, or applicants in the final stages of their PhD will be accepted provided that the PhD will be completed (including viva) before the start date of the Fellowship. Confirmation of award of the PhD will be required before any Fellowship award is confirmed.
• Applicants should have no more than seven years of active full time postdoctoral experience at the time of application (discounting career breaks, but including teaching experience and/or time spent in industry).
• Be working outside the UK.
• Not hold UK citizenship.
• Be competent in oral and written English.
• Have a clearly defined and mutually-beneficial research proposal agreed with a UK host researcher.

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