British Academy Global Professorships 2022 Open to Applications

The British Academy, funded by the UK’s Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, offers Global Professorships each year to demonstrate and further enhance the UK’s commitment to international research partnerships and collaboration as well as strengthen the UK’s research capacity and capability in the humanities and the social sciences.

This programme provides mid-career to senior scholars – active in any discipline within the social sciences and the humanities and based in any country overseas – with the opportunity to work in the UK for four years.

Awards will be held in an institutional setting. A significant feature of the programme is expected to be the contribution that these researchers will make to advancing the research goals and strategies of their host UK universities.

Each four-year appointment is intended to be a complete project in itself and is expected to involve a specific research focus, although the British Academy does not have a preferred model for the balance of time to be spent between research and teaching.

The Academy will provide up to £900,000 over four years.

Awards are expected to run for four years each from a starting date to be agreed with the British Academy. The starting date must not be before 1 September 2022 or after 1 February 2023.

All applicants and host UK institutions are advised that the British Academy will not expect to make more than four Global Professorship appointments to any single institution within this round of competition.

Applications must be submitted online using the British Academy’s Grant Management System, Flexi-Grant® by the deadline of 27 April 2022 (5pm UK time).