BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships

Opens: 4 October 2023

Funder deadline: 15 November 2023

The BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowships are intended to enable established scholars, needing relief from teaching and administration, to have the time to bring to completion a significant piece of research, through sustained period of leave for one year.

Eligibility

The Academy takes no account of an applicant's age or current status (e.g. Professor, Lecturer) in determining eligibility for these awards. Rather, award-holders are expected to disseminate the results of their research not only through publications, but also through feeding into their future academic career after the end of the awards. Any field of study in the humanities and social sciences is suitable for support. Additionally, applicants must be employed in a UK institution.

Note: applicants who have already applied to the Academy’s 2023-2024 round of the Mid-Career Fellowship scheme should note that they are not permitted to apply to the BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship scheme in the autumn of 2023.

Value and duration

These Fellowships are not covered under the Full Economic Costing (FEC) regime, and no research expenses for the Fellowship holder are available. The only cost payable will be the salary of a replacement lecturer, who should normally be at an early career stage and appointed at the usual starting salary for first-time appointments. Fellowships are tenable for one year with the start date expected to fall between 1 September 2024 and 1 January 2025.

How to Apply

Applications must be submitted online using the British Academy's Grant Management System (GMS), Flexi-Grant®. The deadline for submissions is expected to be Wednesday 15 November 2023 (17:00 BST). Further details are available on the British Academy’s webpage for this opportunity.

Internal Deadlines:

Research Services: 8 November 2023

Expressions of Interest: 16 October 2023 (please e-mail research@law.ox.ac.uk