Visiting Fellowships
- 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.
Contact details
+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
Professor Georges Farhat
The Practice of Perspective in the Works of Du Cerceau at the British Museum
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 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 Godwin Ogli
Musicking Faith and Gender by the Mawakan Zumuntu Mata (Women’s Fellowship Choirs) in Northern Nigeria
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 Giang Hoang
A Comparative Study of Computer-mediated Teacher Feedback Versus Automated Feedback: Feedback Provision and Learner Uptake in L2 W
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 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
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 Abba Abba
Documenting Trauma: Reclaiming Unpublished Biafran Voices in the Heinemann African Writers Series Archive
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 Stephen Oppong Peprah
A Complete Parsing and Translation of Amo's Philosophical Dissertations on Mind and Body
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 Nimra Rizvi
Multiple Lives of Indian Objects: Material Culture and Knowledge Production in 19th century South Asia
Dr Monica Gerber Plüss
From Compliance to Resistance: How Do Citizens Relate to and Position Themselves Towards the Police?
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
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 Amilcar Pereira
Anti-racism and Education: History, Social Movements and Knowledge Production in Universities in Brazil and the United Kingdom
Professor Tiffany Veinot
Equity Implications of Healthcare Technologies: Explaining Differential Telehealth Uptake, Use and Quality among Marginalized Popu
Dr Andres Laguens
Ways of Being an Animal in the Southern Andes: Animals, People and Things in the Aguada Culture, 6th-11th century AD
Professor Guoqiang Dong
Rethinking the China Model of Public Health-Care from the Perspective of Global History
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 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 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 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 Isaac Baley
How agents behave in environments with uncertainty and the implications of their choices for macroeconomic outcomes
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 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 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 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 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 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 Yu Dong
How plant isotope analysis has been applied and how the data is being interpreted in other parts of the world
Professor Carol Chan
Dialogic teaching and knowledge building to investigate the nature of productive classroom interaction mediated by technology
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 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 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 Vivian Reigosa-Crespo
Epidemiological and molecular genetics of Developmental Dyscalculia (DD)
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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