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Developing World-class Research Potential
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities values Independent Research Fellows, and offers a first-rate environment in which to realise world-class research potential. We encourage applications from ambitious and talented researchers and, through mentoring from experienced colleagues, will help applicants to develop and secure an Independent Research Fellowship.
The Faculty
We're a vibrant community of scholars, primarily housed in one contiguous building that encourages a ‘faculty without walls’ approach to maximise collaboration. Across the Faculty, our innovative and interdisciplinary research addresses many key issues of culture, creativity, and belief, as well as tackling fundamental questions to enable us to rethink society. Projects also focus on key challenges of healthy living and ageing, and debates about securing energy, food, and water. Research in the Faculty also helps us understand the fundamentals and human and natural environments.
Our research activity is organised into four Schools:
In addition, we benefit from the Interdisciplinary Institute for the Humanities, and a close association with the Sainsbury Centre, the Sainsbury Research Research Unit and the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture.
We attract significant research grant income from wide-ranging national and international public and private funders, and have internal mentoring and reviewing systems that allow us to achieve excellent success rates. We have a proven record of supporting externally funded Research Fellows, from successful application to project delivery, and onto career development and a permanent academic position. Our Research and Innovation Service will nominate an experienced Project Officer who will help you develop your application, including help with costings, deadlines, rules, regulations and eligibility.
We have detailed experience of Fellowship schemes supported by Research Councils UK (RCUK), British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, Marie Sklowdowska-Curie and the European Research Council, as well as a number of charities and learned societies. We provide information and mentoring sessions for different Fellowship schemes, and seminars on planning and writing applications, all led by current or recent Fellows, as well as experienced reviewers and panellists for a range of different research funders. Where applications require, we have matched funds for high quality applicants that are likely to succeed.
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