The Faculty welcomes applications for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships. The aim of the British Academy in making these awards is to offer opportunities for outstanding early career researchers to strengthen their experience of research and teaching in a university environment which will develop their curriculum vitae and improve their prospects of obtaining permanent lecturing posts by the end of the Fellowship. The primary emphasis is on completion of a significant piece of publishable research, which will be assisted by full membership of an academic community of established scholars working in similar fields.
The timetable for the 2016-17 Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition will be announced here in the early Summer of 2016.
Selection of those candidates whose application to the British Academy will be supported by the Faculty of English will take place by competition. The Faculty will then provide support in the preparation of the final application to the BA.
If you are thinking of making an application for a Fellowship at Cambridge in the Faculty of English or Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, we advise that you make informal contact now with Professor Steve Connor for English (skc45@cam.ac.uk) or Dr Rosalind Love for ASNC (rcl10@cam.ac.uk) to discuss your project.
Applications to the Faculty should consist of the following:
(a) a brief CV (not exceeding two sides), including the dates on which you took your PhD viva and on which you were awarded the PhD;
(b) a list of major publications (not exceeding one side);
(c) a brief statement (maximum 250 words) of current research;
(d) a detailed statement of proposed research (maximum 750 words) which should address the following:
- the research problem(s) you are seeking to address and why it is distinctive;
- how your proposed research will tackle this research problem(s) – its design and methodology;
- how your proposed research will significantly change the established landscape;
- the appropriateness of Cambridge (and your proposed mentor) for your project.
(e) two letters of reference, one from outside Cambridge.
The timetable for applications is as follows:
Draft applications to be received by Thursday 25th August 2016.
Decisions made and communicated to potential applicants no later than Wednesday 30 September 2016.
For more information about the application process, please contact the Faculty Administrator, Marina Ballard (administrator@english.cam.ac.uk)
For more information about the Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme and the British Academy’s application process, please see:
http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/pdfells.cfm
