Visiting Fellowships

This programme enables academics from any country overseas to be based at a UK higher education or other research institution of their choice for up to six months and develop collaborative projects with UK colleagues.
Start date
2023
Duration
Varies
Departments
International
Programme status
Ongoing

This programme enables outstanding scholars from overseas (active at any career stage and in any discipline within the humanities and the social sciences) with the opportunity to be based in the UK for a period of up to six months, working with UK colleagues to develop new research collaborations and/or deepen existing partnerships. The Visiting Fellowships are supported by the UK Government's Rutherford Fund which aims to help maintain the UK’s position as a world leader in research by attracting highly skilled researchers to the UK. 

Aims

These Visiting Fellowships illustrate the British Academy’s profound commitment to international engagement and to ensuring that the UK remains an attractive and welcoming place for academics globally. Through this programme, the Academy aims to:

  • Enhance and build new links between scholars anywhere in the world and in the UK;
  • Foster opportunities and develop future partnerships for collaborative research in the humanities and the social sciences, and enable academics from across the globe to undertake research and/or professional development with UK colleagues;
  • Strengthen the UK’s research base in the humanities and the social sciences.

For more information, please see the scheme notes.

This programme is funded by the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.

Scheme notes

Contact details

[email protected]

+44 (0) 207 969 5220 

2023 Projects

Dr Papia Sengupta

Reclaiming Through Resistance: Examining the Muslim Women's Protest Against the Citizenship Amendment Act in India

Dr Igor’ Kontorovich

Opening the “Black Box” of Students’ Learning with Computer-based Automatic Feedback: The Case of Collaborative Undergraduate Math

Dr Abdelmjid Kettioui

‘Religion is for God and Orgasm is For All:’ The Intersectional and Neoliberal Politics of Sexual Activism in the Moroccan Online

Dr Santhosh Raghavan Nair

Articulations of Communal Harmony Among Muslims of Kerala, South India: an Ethnographic Inquiry

Dr Suzanne So

Dissociation and Co-Occurring Psychopathologies – Two Investigations Along the Clinical Spectrum

Professor Tinashe Nyamunda

Rethinking African Economics: Reparation Payments, Spirit Beliefs and Non-Standard Notions of Value/Exchange

Dr Laura Rupp

Old Wine in New Bottles: Tracing the Pathways of Dialect Death and Rebirth

Professor Georges Farhat

The Practice of Perspective in the Works of Du Cerceau at the British Museum

Dr Leo Coleman

Democratic Procedures: Referendums in Anthropological Perspective

Professor Özlem Berk Albachten

Turkish Literature in English: Mapping Translation in the British Publishing Archives (1945-1975)

Dr Reham Hosny

“Locked Up for Reading a Poem”: AI Poetics of Disguise and Literary Activism in the Arab World

Professor Rodwell Makombe

On the Postcoloniality of the Everyday in Post-Mugabe Zimbabwe: Social Media, Satire, and Humour

Dr David Olusegun Sotola

COVID-19, Crisis Responses, and Corruption in the Health Sector

Dr Raoni Valle

Rock Art Inter-Ontologies: Ethnography and Digital Safeguarding of Kumuã Knowledge on Petroglyph Sacred Places in Northwest Amazon

Dr Ciaran O'Flynn

How the State-Professional Service Nexus Helps Create, Sustain, and Reinvent Tax Avoidance Strategies

Dr Daniel Batovici

At One Remove: The Reception of the Literature Attributed to Early Christian Figures with Claimed Apostolic Connection

Dr Mengzhen Yue

Aristotle’s Rhetoric in China: Translation, Politics, and Abridgement

Dr Godwin Ogli

Musicking Faith and Gender by the Mawakan Zumuntu Mata (Women’s Fellowship Choirs) in Northern Nigeria

Dr Tanya Jakimow

Centring Asia and the Pacific in Scholarship on Political Leadership

Dr Lucas Amaral de Oliveira

Contested Histories of Nation-Building: Counternarratives in Contemporary Brazilian Literature

Professor Jane Desmond

Social Dimensions of Veterinary Medicine: A Comparative Mapping of the Emergent Veterinary Humanities in the U.K. and U.S.

Dr Kaan Agartan

Decolonising Radical Democracy: Reimagining Social Movements and Solidarity in the Age of Authoritarianism

Professor Penelope Weller

The Future of Mental Health Law: A Comparative Analysis of Law Reform Debates in Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, England, and

Dr Mariana Araujo Lamego

Transnational Academic Mobility and Knowledge Networks: Geographical Research and Collaboration Between Britain and Brazil

Dr Nicola Willand

Mapping Cross-National Conceptions of Essential Energy to Advance Housing Energy Justice

Dr Sadia Zulfiqar

Leila Aboulela and Muslim Women: From Rescue to Resistance

Dr Keir Moulton

The Grammar of Events and Experiences

Dr Fernanda Rangel

Labour Exploitation in South America: An Econometric Approach

Dr Giang Hoang

A Comparative Study of Computer-mediated Teacher Feedback Versus Automated Feedback: Feedback Provision and Learner Uptake in L2 W

Professor Anna Roussou

Wh-pronouns as Indefinites: Implications for Linguistic Variation

Professor Fraya Frehse

‘To Have a Home’: Intersectional Inequalities and Urban Public Space in Post-Covid Latin America

Dr Ines Garcia de la Puente

Writing Legends, Crafting History: The Rus’ Primary Chronicle and Its European Counterparts

Dr Ross Hendy

Lethal and Near-Lethal Uses of Force: Building on the Global Lethal Force Monitor

Dr David Gonzalez Chica

Comparing Patterns and Trajectories of Complex Multimorbidity Phenotypes, Trends and Endpoints (CoMPuTE) in the UK and Australia

Dr Thuy Duong Khuu

Global Biodiversity Targets and National Realities: a Case Study of Governing Protected Areas in Vietnam

Dr Romie Nghitevelekwa

Commercialisation of Smallholder Agriculture in Rural Northern-Namibia

Professor Juan Manuel Tebes

Decoding the Ancient Sacred Landscapes of the Arid Southern Levant (Southern Jordan/Israel): The Desert Cults Mapping Project

Dr Magdalena Muszel

Transnational Dimensions of the Women's Rights Movement: Polish Migrant Activism in the UK

Dr Saagar Tewari

Voicing Adivasistan: Jaipal Singh Munda and the Jharkhand Movement (1937-1956)

Dr Abba Abba

Documenting Trauma: Reclaiming Unpublished Biafran Voices in the Heinemann African Writers Series Archive

Dr Gaik Cheng Khoo

Durian Stories

Dr Somnoma Valerie Ouedraogo

Cross-National Grassroots Analysis of the Impact of Political Conflict on the Organisation and Delivery of Social Services

Dr Katherine Bowers

Unstable Environments: Reading Climate Catastrophe Across the Long Nineteenth Century

Dr Lala Muradova

Feeling our way through misperceptions and misinformation

Dr Stephen Oppong Peprah

A Complete Parsing and Translation of Amo's Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and Body

Dr David Seibt

Platform Biographies: Tracing the Emergence of Digital Platforms in Social Fields

Dr Oluwaseun Osadola

Benin Imperialism in North-Eastern Yoruba Land

Dr Maria Fleurdelis Tanyag

The International Political Thought of Asia Pacific Women’s Regional Networks

Dr Adam Molnar

Understanding of the Risks and Regulation of Employee Monitoring Applications in the United Kingdom

Dr Tehila Sasson

Discredited: Black Britons and the Politics of Financial Exclusion in Britain

Dr Nimra Rizvi

Multiple Lives of Indian Objects: Material Culture and Knowledge Production in 19th century South Asia

Dr Nicola Zito

The “Orphic” Lithica: A 4th Century Religious Manifesto of the Last Pagans

Professor David Parkinson

Walking Perth’s Past: The Muses Threnodie for New Audiences

Dr Victor Iwuoha

European Externalization Policies and Biometric ID Cooperation in West Africa

Dr John Szabo

The Political Economics of Hydrogen: Fossil versus Renewable-based in the UK

Dr Wataru Toyokawa

The Role of Innovation and Social Institution in Human Technological Evolution

Dr Monica Gerber Plüss

From Compliance to Resistance: How Do Citizens Relate to and Position Themselves Towards the Police?

Professor Zeynep Şimşek

Ethnic, Religious, and Gender-Based Lynching Cases in Turkey: 2000-2022

Dr Ahonaa Roy

Covid-19 Disorder(ly): Gender, Housing and Community Engagement in the Slums of Mumbai

Dr Myra Mohnen

The Origins and Long-Run Dynamics of Female Labour Force Participation and Political Rights

Professor Maria Eugenia Ulfe Young

Collaborative Action and Writing: Voices of Recovery and Women of Influence

Dr Magdalena Buchczyk

Weaving Ecologies - Intangible Heritage Between Social and Environmental Justice

Professor Susan Nichols

Children’s Digital Lives: Participatory Inquiry and Creative Engagement

Dr Lucía Berro Pizzarossa

Constellations, Crises, and Care: the Role of Feminist Activism in Shaping Abortion Trajectories

Dr Rhonda Faragher

Ageing Well: Reducing the Fear of Dementia for Adults With Down Syndrome Through Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration

Dr Kelvin Haule

Governing Circular Sanitation Services to Africa’s Urban Poor: The Case of Tanzania

Dr Fernando Lizárraga

Egalitarianism, Incentives, and Hospitality

Dr Amilcar Pereira

Anti-racism and Education: History, Social Movements and Knowledge Production in Universities in Brazil and the United Kingdom

Dr Lewis Williams

Addressing Climate Trauma Through Indigenous-led Intergenerational Resilience

Professor Tiffany Veinot

Equity Implications of Healthcare Technologies: Explaining Differential Telehealth Uptake, Use and Quality among Marginalized Popu

Dr Alessandro Antonello

Cities and Their Coastal Environments: Exploring an Urban Blue Humanities

Dr Andres Laguens

Ways of Being an Animal in the Southern Andes: Animals, People and Things in the Aguada Culture, 6th-11th century AD

Dr Alexandra Peat

Literature as Imaginary Archive: Ephemera, Migration and Literature, 1900-1950

Dr Matthew Hopper

Liberated Africans in the Indian Ocean World, 1808-1897

Professor Guoqiang Dong

Rethinking the China Model of Public Health-Care from the Perspective of Global History

Professor Leah Orr

Second-hand Literature: Used Books Across England, 1660-1800

Dr Umair Javed

Negotiating Informality: Bazaars and the State in Urban Pakistan

Dr Deona Çali

The Contribution of Albanian Civil Society to Albania State-Building, Identity-Formation, and Minority Rights Between 1920-1939

Dr Gayle Murchison

Race, Gender, and Jazz in Windrush-era London: Mary Lou Williams, Winifred Atwell, Cleo Laine, and Shirley Bassey

Dr Simon Batterbury

Community Bike Workshops and the Culture of Sustainable Mobility: British Cases

Dr Susan Cross

Relationship Process in Honour-Oriented Cultural Contexts

Dr Sutapa Majumdar

Of Love, Longing, and Loss: Indian Sex Workers' Love Stories

Dr Ogochukwu Monye

Innovations for Financial Inclusion in Nigeria and the United Kingdom

Dr Shinta Prastyanti

Contingent Coping and Social Reproduction in Response to Pandemic Job Losses Among Indonesian Labourers in Central Java

2018 Projects

Dr Aikaterini Florou

Arbitration as the new dominant mechanism for dispute resolution in a post-Brexit context

Dr Amanda Phillips

Ottomans and Serbians, Sultans and Monks: Material Cross Culture ca 1400

Dr Angel Hsu

How non-state and sub-national actors are contributing to overall climate policy in China

Dr Antonio Gonzalez Zarandona

Expose the events and acts of destruction that have shaped Murujuga in its current form

Dr Barnita Bagchi

Transcultural utopian imagination in early 20th century India and Britain

Dr Cristian Mondello

Token Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean

Dr David Braun

How humans transfer information between individuals

Dr Di Zhu

How consumer culture restructures the society as well as the relationship between the state, the market and consumer sovereignty

Dr Elisabeth Gsottbauer

Investigate the effectiveness of incentives to secure ecosystem service provision

Dr Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn

Southeast Asian Cinema and the Anthropocene

Dr Himanshu Himanshu

Palanpur village surveys

Dr Isaac Baley

How agents behave in environments with uncertainty and the implications of their choices for macroeconomic outcomes

Dr Isabella Jackson

Changing responses to child slavery in 20th century China

Dr Jeannine Baker

BBC Connected Histories

Dr Jeremy Speight

Differences in the post-conflict institutionalisation of wartime rebel governance and authority

Dr Jessica Smith

Intersections of engineering and corporate social responsibility in the mining and petroleum industries

Dr Jonathan Corpus Ong

Practices in populist communication and networked disinformation production in a global context

Dr José Neves

Portuguese communist movement

Dr Kelly O'Brien

The episodic nature of disability experienced by people aging with chronic disease

Dr Laura Murphy

21st-century slave revolts and contributes to the development of an archive of modern slave narratives

Dr Lindy Brady

Framing History in the British Isles: The Origin Legends of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales

Dr Marcela Tenorio

Stigma towards people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD)

Dr Maria Limon

Latin verse inscriptions

Dr Mariana Pérez Torrescano Salgado

Link managerial and organisational questions, such as ethics in business, with philosophical and critical approaches

Dr Muritala Monsuru Olalekan

The nexus between the Second World War and the episode of communal riots that broke out in Ilesa, Western Nigeria in 1941

Dr Niladri Sekhar Dash

Develop clinical tools that can aid in the assessment of and interventions for speech-language impaired populations

Dr Nina Adamova

How books on sacred history were read and interpreted in Reformation England

Dr Rebecca Caines

Develop an international research network exploring improvisation, emerging technologies and arts-based community making

Dr Sahil Nijhawan

the relationship between people and threatened wildlife in the face of rapid large-scale demographic, environmental changes

Dr Sam Lutalo-Kiingi

Gaps and challenges in UgSLI services in different domains of life

Dr Sara Sullam

Anglo-Italian literary relations

Dr Shaun Goh

Different parameters of language can contribute to better prediction of mental health outcomes among children in primary school

Dr Stefania Ermidoro

Unknown aspects of Austen Henry Layard's life (an archaeologist, collector and politician of the Victorian Age)

Dr Sydney Shep

Personal, professional, social and cultural geographies of the 19th-century book trades in the port city of Southampton

Dr Tara White

Characterise the brain impact of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) in the U.K

Dr Thor Berger

How the proliferation of online platforms is affecting the UK labour market

Dr Ulrike Fasbender

Mapping the underlying mechanisms and benefits of intergenerational contact in the workplace

Dr Wendy Erb

Ecological and ethnographic research programme to underpin conservation of the threatened Rungan River landscape

Dr Xiaodong Li

Remote Sensing to Inform Sustainable Development

Dr Yu Dong

How plant isotope analysis has been applied and how the data is being interpreted in other parts of the world

Professor Andrea Hildebrandt

Construct validity of forensic face-matching ability

Professor Carol Chan

Dialogic teaching and knowledge building to investigate the nature of productive classroom interaction mediated by technology

Professor Dominic Rainsford

The observation that numbers are used incoherently in public discourse

Professor Emmanuel Kasimbazi

The effectiveness of policy, legislative and institutional frameworks to address disaster risk reduction (DRR) in East Africa

Professor Francesca Pomerantz

How teachers use the kinds of knowledge possessed by families to shape the literacy curriculum

Professor Gianfranco Agosti

The social and cultural role of inscriptional Greek poetry in Late Antiquity

Professor Jack Jacobs

Antisemitism, Racism, and the Left: International Perspectives

Professor Karsten Steinhauer

Two studies comparing real-time language processing in monolingual and bilingual participants

Professor Mark Clark

Transforms our understanding of the development of the Parisian schools and curriculum in the history of western thought

Professor Onno van Nijf

Greek athletics in the Hellenistic and Roman periods

Professor Pam Crabtree

Animal husbandry and hunting in the South Caucasus during the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age periods

Professor Raquel Bernal

Determinants of human capital accumulation and ability at the early stages of life

Professor Rohit Jigyasu

Mainstreaming cultural heritage in larger disaster risk management and climate change adaptation policies

Professor Stephen Smith

Rights, Wrongs, and Injustices: The Structure of Remedial Law

Professor Vidal Romero

Specific conditions that minimise the incidence of crime in communities

Professor Vivian Reigosa-Crespo

Epidemiological and molecular genetics of Developmental Dyscalculia (DD)

Professor Wendy Kline

Psychiatrist R.D. Laing

Professor Witold Klaus

Develop knowledge in Poland and the United Kingdom about the pre- and post-deportation experiences of EU nationals

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