AHRC-DCMS Policy Fellowships to Inform Policies for Culture, Heritage and the Creative Industries
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) are offering fellowships to help develop a researcher’s career and enhance their understanding of applying research in policy contexts, through a secondment based with DCMS. It aims to create deeper engagement between academia and policy.
An AHRC-DCMS policy fellow will:
- Provide research and expert advice on the policy priority areas, including co-designing and delivering research projects and activities
- Engage in knowledge exchange (KE) activities across government and academia
- Build longer-term networks across research and policy.
Fellows will be uniquely positioned to build connections between the policymaking and research communities, as well as to generate and share new knowledge and insights on effective policy collaboration with the wider research community.
DCMS will host four policy fellows to support the department’s work on developing its research and knowledge across culture, heritage, and creative industries.
Fellowships are available in the following areas:
- International cultural heritage protection and soft power policy (co-hosted with the British Council)
- Digital and international audiences
- Implementing the culture and heritage capital approach
- Media and creative industries environmental sustainability.
Each fellowship will last up to 13.5 months to cover a three-month inception phase for set up activity, followed by a six to nine month placement with DCMS (and British Council for the cultural heritage protection and soft power policy fellowship), and concluding with a knowledge exchange and impact phase lasting up to six weeks.
Applicants must:
- Be based at an organisation eligible for UKRI funding
- Have a PhD or equivalent experience
- Meet AHRC’s early career researcher status.
The full economic cost of the fellowship will be £135,000. AHRC will fund 80% of the full economic cost.
Applications should be submitted through the Joint Electronic Submission (Je-S) system by 6 January 2022 (4pm UK time).