Frances A Yates Long-Term Fellowships 2025 (Funded) Deadline: 22 November, 2024

Applications are open for the Frances A Yates Long-Term Fellowships 2025. Each year the Institute offers post-doctoral long-term Yates Fellowships to support research on projects on any aspect of cultural, intellectual or art history supported by the resources of the Institute’s Library, Photographic Collection or Archive. The awards provide financial support towards living and subsistence costs in London for nine to twelve months.

Yates Fellowships are intended for scholars at any stage of their post-doctoral career. They are designed to enable scholars to carry out research in and on the Warburg’s Collections. Applications will not be accepted from candidates proposing to revise their doctoral dissertation for publication. Proposed projects should be unrelated to the doctoral dissertation.

The annual group of fellows benefits from and contributes to the vibrant intellectual life of the Institute. Fellows are given a space to work; they may be asked to give a Work-in-Progress Seminar paper and are encouraged to contribute the Institute’s blog: Mnemosyne.

Funding

• Fellowships are tenable at the Warburg Institute and begin in September/October 2025 for either a nine- or twelve-month period. Fellows are paid a stipend of £38,109 for a 12-month fellowships and a pro-rata amount of that sum for a nine-month fellowship.

Eligibility

• Candidates must hold a PhD by the time the fellowship begins in September/October 2025. For those who do not hold a PhD upon application, their reference must be provided by their PhD supervisor.
• Fellowships at the Warburg Institute may not be held concurrently with another fellowship or award.
• Those who have previously held a long-term fellowship at the Institute are not eligible to apply.

Selection Criteria

The Selection committee will assess the quality of applications with reference to the following criteria:   

• The academic record of the candidate as exhibited by the application form
• The originality and significance of the proposed research to the applicant’s field;   
• How well the candidate’s research complements the Warburg’s resources and areas of expertise of its staff 
• How active the candidate is as a scholar and his or her expected contribution to the intellectual life of the Warburg Institute. 

Application

Incomplete applications, or applications without references will not be considered.

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For more information, visit Frances A Yates Long-Term Fellowships.