Institute Visiting Fellowships
The 10 institutes of the School offer a number of visiting research fellowships in their specialist subject areas.
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Institute of Classical Studies
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
Institute of English Studies
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
Institute of Historical Research
Institute of Musical Research
Institute of Philosophy
Institute for the Study of the Americas
The Warburg Institute
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
Welcoming researchers in any area of legal scholarship who can profit from the strengths of its holdings in United Kingdom and foreign law: its particular research interests lie in legal education and the profession; company and partnership law; financial services regulation; economic crime; comparative law; law reform; and the law of children.
The main Fellowships available are:
- Visiting Fellowships (by application each year; see the Institute's website for details on how to apply). Tenure: between 3 and 12 months. Non-stipendiary.
- Inns of Court Fellowship (one Fellowship awarded per annum. Nominations must be made by the Chief Justice of the jurisdiction). Tenure: normally 3 months. Non-stipendiary, but accommodation will be provided.
- Visiting Fellowship in Law Librarianship (by application each year; see the Institute's website for details on how to apply). Tenure: between 3 and 12 months. Non-stipendiary.
- Associate Research Fellowships (by appointment of the Institute's Advisory Council). Conferred on persons participating in Institute research activities and/or assisting with MPhil/PhD research supervision, thereby enabling them to benefit from library and other facilities equivalent to those enjoyed by other members of staff.
Institute of Classical Studies
With its internationally renowned library, the IClS provides outstanding research facilities for scholars working in the fields of Ancient Greek and Latin languages and literature, Ancient History, Mycenaean Studies, Classical Archaeology and Ancient Philosophy. Specialist archive rooms are dedicated to research in the Ancient Theatre, in Epigraphy and Papyrology, and for the Ancient Commentators on Aristotle Project. Offices for research fellows are located within the area of the library. A computing room is well supplied with electronic information resources in Classics and related fields.
The main Fellowships available are:
- Visiting Fellowships: non-stipendiary, between three months and 12 months.
- T B L Webster Fellowship
- A. D. Trendall Fellowship: appointment in alternate years
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies is the only postgraduate academic institution in the United Kingdom devoted to the study of the Commonwealth. Its purpose is to promote inter-disciplinary and inter-regional research on the Commonwealth and its member nations in the fields of history, politics, economics and other social sciences, and in subjects like development, environment, health, migration, class, race, and literature.
The Institute of Commonwealth Studies offers a number of Fellowships each year. These Fellowships include the following:
- Visiting Fellowships, Tenure: 3 months to 1 year, unfunded.
- Senior Fellowships, Tenure: 1 - 3 years, unfunded.
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Henry Charles Chapman Visiting Fellowship
(1 Fellowship biennially) Tenure: between 3 and 12 months, funded (not more than £4,000).
Institute of English Studies
The activities of the Institute of English Studies attract those interested in the English language and its literatures (including other national and international literatures in English), in the History of the Book, and in cognate fields of study. Its approach is interdisciplinary, and it co-ordinates a substantial amount of research activity through the Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies which it hosts on behalf of a cross-sectoral group of seven universities and libraries including the British Library and the St Bride Printing Library. It has a strong presence in the writing of national histories of the book in Britain and Ireland and a strong presence in mediaeval English Palaeography. It hosts a variety of Research Seminar series annually, and about twenty conferences, as well as an ambitious publishing programme.
The Institute offers Non-Stipendiary Visiting Research Fellowship.
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
The Institute welcomes applications for non-stipendiary Visiting Fellowships from scholars of international distinction, whose research is in a field relevant to the Institute’s work, and who wish to spend a period of time (from one month to one year) in London.
- Senior and Junior Research Fellowships
- Sylvia Naish Research Fellowships (Germanic Studies)
- Martin Miller and Hannah Norbert-Miller Research Fellowships (Exile Studies)
Institute of Historical Research
The IHR is a working and meeting place for historians from all over the world and houses two major research centres – the Victoria County History and the Centre for Metropolitan History.
The Institute administers the following fellowships which aim to help postgraduate, postdoctoral and other research.
- Senior Research Fellowships
- IHR Research Fellowships in History
- The Economic History Society Fellowships
- Past and Present Fellowships
- IHR Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in the Humanities
- Marie Curie Fellowships for Doctoral Students in History
Institute of Musical Research
Visiting researchers are most welcome at the IMR. They are encouraged to take an active part in the life of the Institute: to give lectures and talks, to help organise seminars, and to contribute to the Institute’s research training programme.
Institute of Philosophy
The Institute welcomes applications from philosophers who wish to visit London, and can offer its own office space and other facilities. Fellows are encouraged to take an active part in the life of the Programme, and in the many other philosophical activities in London. The Aristotelian Society holds its fortnightly meetings in Senate House, and the Royal Institute of Philosophy holds weekly meetings in nearby Gordon Square. Prospective fellows may apply for a visit of up to one year. Fellows may work in any area of philosophy.
Enquiries about visiting fellowships should be made to the Director to whom applications should also be sent. The closing date for applications is the end of January in the academic year prior to the year of the intended visit. Applications should include a CV, a statement of research to be undertaken while visiting the Programme, and the names of three referees.
Institute for the Study of the Americas
The Institute for the Study of the Americas promotes, coordinates and provides a focus for research and postgraduate teaching on the Americas – Canada, the US, Latin America and the Caribbean – in social sciences and the humanities. The Institute welcomes applications for Visiting Research Fellowships from scholars of international distinction whose research is in a field relevant to the Institute’s work. Applicants must have a PhD or be of postdoctoral standing.
- Visiting Research Fellowships
- Visiting Doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Associate Fellowships
- Robin Humphreys Fellowship
The Warburg Institute
The Warburg Institute exists principally to further the interdisciplinary study of the classical tradition, that is of those elements of European thought, literature, art and institutions which derive from the ancient world. The classical tradition is conceived as the theme which unifies the history of Western civilisation. The emphasis is less on ‘classical’ values in art and literature (in fact, all the strands that link medieval and modern civilisation with its origins in the ancient cultures of the Near East and the Mediterranean are represented in the Library), than on the element of continuity: the tenacity of symbols and images in European art and architecture, the persistence of motifs and forms in Western languages and literatures, the gradual transition, in Western thought, from magical beliefs to religion, science and philosophy, and the survival and transformation of ancient patterns in social customs and political institutions.
The Institute offers the following Fellowships:
- Frances A Yates Fellowships
- Brian Hewson Crawford Fellowship
- Henri Frankfort Fellowship
- Albin Salton Fellowship
- Grete Sondheimer Fellowship
- Two or three-year Research Fellowships
