The Chevening British Library Fellowship is currently open for applications.
Application Deadline: 1st November 2022.
To Be Taken At (Country): UK
About the Award: The Chevening British Library Fellowship is a collaboration between the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office and the British Library, offering international experts a year-long professional project-based placement. Fellows will have the privilege of working with the extensive library’s collections and benefit from the broad range of professional expertise of library staff.
The British Library is the national library of the UK and one of the world’s greatest research libraries. The British Library’s collection encompasses all fields of knowledge in hundreds of languages, covering 3,500 years from some of the earliest written records to the digital collections of the present day, and range over all formats. As a public-facing, culturally-active research institute, Chevening is pleased to partner with the British Library to bring international experts to the UK to pursue a one-of-a-kind opportunity.
For the 2023/2024 academic year, two placements are on offer and will provide fellows with experience in strategic and policy work relevant to a national library. There is one placement per theme:
West African Manuscripts Crowdsourcing Programme
Shan Collections at the British Library
Type: Fellowship
Eligibility: To be eligible for a Chevening British Library Fellowship, you must:
Note: Immediate relatives are defined as parents or step-parents, siblings or step-siblings, children or step-children, spouse, civil partner or unmarried (where the couple have been in a relationship akin to marriage or civil partnership for at least two years).
Please note that applicants who have previously received financial benefit from a HMG-funded scholarship or fellowship are eligible to apply after a period of five years following the completion of their first HMG funded award. In these cases, applicants will be required to demonstrate their career progression from that point.
Number of Awards: 2 (1 per Theme)
Value of Award:
Duration of Programme: The fellowship starts in September 2023 and is for a 12-month period of project-based activity at the British Library.
How to Apply: Apply before 1 November 2022
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