Funding Opportunities
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Funding
opportunities open to scholars outside Cambridge are also listed below.
Cambridge faculty members and graduate students
Conference Support
CRASSH supports an annual programme of conferences and workshops which may or may not be related to the Centre's theme and initiatives. Funding of up to £2000, plus administrative support is available to college and university faculty and graduate students of the University of Cambridge. There is one deadline annually, at the end of February, for all conferences that will take place in the following academic year (October - September).Crausaz Wordworth Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Philosophy
The aim of this Fellowship is to enable scholars developing interests in philosophical study from an interdisciplinary perspective to spend additional time exploring these.Early Career Fellowships
The Early Career Fellowship Scheme, sponsored jointly by CRASSH and the Schools of Arts and Humanities (CSAH) and Humanities and Social Sciences, enables early-career academics to take a term away from teaching in order to start a new project, with the Centre providing an inspirational collaborative environment for new work.Graduate and Faculty Research Groups
The Graduate and Faculty Research Group programme supports groups of graduate students and faculty working together with a common interdisciplinary research interest. These groups have proved a sturdy tool for disciplinary development, curriculum change and interdisciplinary research.Mellon CDI Teaching Fellowships
The Mellon-funded Teaching Fellowship programme, part of the Centre for Disciplinary Innovation at CRASSH, provides funding for collaborative courses to be taught at CRASSH. Courses are co-taught by two people from different disciplinary areas, Faculties, or Schools.Funding opportunities for scholars outside Cambridge
Visiting Fellowships
Visiting Fellowships are designed to support the Centre's thematic activities. Visiting Fellows are given office accommodation in the Centre and, where appropriate, travel grants, as well as certain practical assistance in their research. CRASSH will also endeavour to arrange residential accommodation and other regular social and intellectual exchanges with Cambridge colleges. CRASSH may also support visitors who come to Cambridge for a period of days or weeks in order to participate in a particular activity organised by the Centre.
EURIAS Fellowship
The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 10-month residencies in one of the 14 participating Institutes: Berlin, Bologna, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Cambridge, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyons, Nantes, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, Wassenaar.
Balzan-Skinner Fellowship
The Faculty of History has received funding for five years from the International Balzan Prize Foundation to establish an annual Lecture in modern intellectual history since c. 1500.
Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship
The scheme is intended for
earlier-career academics from India (defined as resident and domiciled
in India, between the ages of 25 and 45 years). Research
proposals may be in any field within the Arts, Social Sciences and
Humanities, with an emphasis on disciplinary innovation and
cross-disciplinary enquiry.
