School Visiting Fellowship
The School offers a single School Visiting Fellowship each year in the humanities and social sciences by open, external competition.
The Fellowship is funded for a period of up to six months and successful applicants are expected to spend at least five months with the School. It is open to both professorial staff and early to mid-career scholars; normally applicants will have a PhD that was awarded between 8 and 15 years prior to the application deadline.
The School Fellow is expected to pursue their work in the context of an active relationship with the multi-disciplinary scholarly community within the School, to play a leading intellectual role in cross-School seminars and other programmes and to engage fully with the research promotion and facilitation mission of the School and its institutes. Applicants must be able to show that their research can benefit from the resources of one or more of the institutes in the School, and that they will contribute productively to the range of activities across the School.
Applicants are strongly encouraged to visit the websites of the institutes and the Human Rights Consortium to find out more about the various research areas covered. Intending applicants may also find it useful in advance of making an application to make contact with the director of any of the institutes with which they might have an affiliation.
The closing date for applications for the School Fellowship is 17:00 (GMT) on 31 January for the fellowship to take place between September and June in the following academic year.
Further details and application form
The terms and conditions of the fellowship including the application form [Word]
Selection process and results
All eligible applications are considered by the School's RPF Programmes Committee, with input from all ten institute directors within the School. An offer will be made as soon as possible after the meeting.
Please note that it is not possible to give feedback to unsuccessful applicants.
Contact
For further information or if you have a query, please contact the School Fellowships Officer: Peter Niven
E: peter.niven@sas.ac.uk
School's Visiting Fellow 2011-12:
Professor Lisa Lowe (Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego) studied European intellectual history at Stanford, and French literature and critical theory at UC Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching interests are French, British, and U.S. literatures, and the topic of Asian migration within European and American modernities. She has published books on orientalism, immigration, and culture within globalisation. Professor Lowe is based at the School between January and June 2012 and is most closely affiliated with the Institutes for the Study of the Americas, of Historical Research and of Commonwealth Studies. She is to give two lectures: 'Vanity Fair and the Fetishism of Colonial Commodities' on 15 Feb 2012 and 'The Intimacies of Four Continents' [Poster] on 15 May 2012.
