Global Innovation Fellowships: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Scheme overview

The British Academy has been funded by the Department of Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) to support the Innovation Fellowships.

The objective of the Global Innovation Fellowships is to provide opportunities to UK-based early- and mid-career researchers from across the humanities and social sciences to develop their skills, networks and careers in the creative and cultural, public, private and policy sectors to address challenges that require innovative approaches and solutions. Through the Global Innovation Fellowships, researchers in the SHAPE community will be supported to create new and deeper links beyond academia, so enabling knowledge mobilisation and translation, as well as individual skills development.

This is the second call for this programme, offering opportunities for Global Innovation Fellowship award holders to embed themselves and be based in the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (specifically in the USA, with possibilities to engage in other regions as appropriate). Awards from the first round can be seen on the latest award announcement.

In a complex, changing, and increasingly contested world, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace generates strategic ideas and independent analysis, supports diplomacy, and trains the next generation of international scholar-practitioners to help countries and institutions take on the most difficult global problems and safeguard peace. It is recognised as the leading global foreign policy think tank. Carnegie’s experts are thinkers and doers from diverse disciplines and perspectives working together across borders on issues such as democracy, technology, and climate change with deep expertise and understanding of regional contexts in Asia, Africa, Europe, India, the Middle East, and Russia and Eurasia.

Aims

The aim is to have a mutually beneficial partnership between the fellowship award holder and Carnegie with each able to take advantage of fresh perspectives and expand their networks and reach. It will enable the award holder to strengthen and create new links across policy and academia, enabling knowledge mobilisation and translation, and the opportunity to develop new approaches and solutions to policy challenges through providing a different perspective. 

Application information

Applications are invited in any of the following five areas:

• Sustainability, Climate and Geopolitics.
• Global Order and Institutions.
• South and East Asia.
• Middle East and North Africa.
• Security and Defence.

There are no preconceived ideas about the disciplinary background of the award holder, but the applicant will need to demonstrate a solid understanding of the relevant issues, including the applicable policy landscape and the systemic challenges that it faces. Language skills where relevant are desirable but not essential.

Scheme opens date: 1 July 2025

Application Deadline: Applications must be submitted by 24 September 2025, 17:00 BST.

Value and duration

Global Innovation Fellowships are expected to commence by September 2026. An earlier start date of March or April 2026 may be possible, in this case the applicant will need to explain how they will plan and manage their relocation on this faster timeline.

The Academy is offering up to two one-year fellowships hosted in Carnegie’s offices in Washington DC, Singapore or Beirut. These are offered as awards for up to £150,000 for 12 months in duration (with Full Economic Costing at 80%).

Scheme guidance

Please view our scheme guidance notes before submitting an application.