- Vacancies | OPEN
Deputy Centre Administrator (Part time, Fixed term)
An exciting opportunity for a Deputy Centre Administrator has arisen within CRASSH to provide additional support to the Centre.
The Deputy Centre Administrator will join a friendly collaborative team and work closely with the Centre Administrator and CRASSH Director to support the Centre’s programmes and projects. The role holder will provide professional support in the areas of Governance and Planning, Research Management, Financial Management, Human Resource Management, Programme and Project Administration and Communications (internal and external relations).
Deadline 28 April 2024
- Research grants | OPEN
Research grants at CRASSH
CRASSH welcomes enquiries from researchers who wish to apply via CRASSH for a research fellowship or a research grant funded by UKRI, the Leverhulme, the British Academy, the Wellcome Trust or other funding bodies.
- Further details on the application process with CRASSH
- Find out more about CRASSH research projects
- Rolling deadlines according to funding bodies
- Network funding | OPEN
OPEN | Research Networks funding 2024 – 2025
The research networks programme supports groups of Cambridge graduate students and Cambridge-based academics working together with a common interdisciplinary research interest. Networks are selected by competition in May to run in the next academic year (October – June). The package offers funding of up to £1,500 per academic year, plus administrative support. Activities may include seminars, reading/discussion groups and short visits by speakers to Cambridge.
- Read the funding FAQs
- The funding round is open
- Deadline Friday 3 May 2024 at 14:00 (GMT)
- Events and initiatives funding | OPEN
Events and initiatives funding competition
CRASSH offers support for a wide range of events, workshops, and creative initiatives. We invite you to apply for funding and logistical support for any activity that will foster the exchange of ideas across disciplines and cultures, forge new collaborations between researchers and other participants, bring academic research to wider publics, or explore the connections between research and artistic practice.
- Read the funding FAQs
- Apply for funding for events between September 2024 and April 2025
- Deadline 8 April 2024
- Calls for papers & participants | OPEN
Call for papers: Seeing Muslimness, conference on 27 – 28 June 2024
This two-day interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore the ‘presence’ of Muslimness in (extra)ordinary life.- Submission deadline 30 April
Call for papers: Code as Conversation, Cambridge Digital Humanities conference on 1 June 2024
- Submission deadline 15 March
- Fellowships | CLOSED
CLOSED | Visiting Fellowships for scholars from the Global South
CRASSH is offering a programme of funded Visiting Fellowships for scholars from the Global South. The purpose of these Fellowships is to provide opportunities for scholars working at higher education institutions in the Global South to exchange ideas with other researchers based at CRASSH and elsewhere in the University of Cambridge and to draw benefit from access to the University’s collections and resources.
- Applications are closed
CLOSED | Visiting Fellowships
These self-funded Fellowships are open to any scholar from outside the University of Cambridge working in a field that falls broadly within the arts, humanities, or social sciences. Interdisciplinary scholars working on subjects involving medicine, engineering or the natural sciences are also welcome.
- Applications are closed
- The application portal will reopen at the end of summer
- Future application deadlines are 1 November 2024 and 1 November 2025
CLOSED | Cambridge Early Career Fellowships
(Cambridge scholars only)
The Early Career Fellowship Scheme, generously funded by a donor, allows Cambridge University Teaching Officers and College Teaching Officers to apply for an additional term of research leave, to be spent in the collaborative and interdisciplinary environment at CRASSH.
- Applications are closed
CLOSED | Crausaz Wordsworth Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Philosophy
(Cambridge scholars only)
The aim of this Fellowship is to enable scholars who are developing an interest in studying philosophical themes from an interdisciplinary perspective to spend additional time exploring these.
- Applications are closed
CLOSED | Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship
The Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship at CRASSH offers funding for a term of study and residence in Cambridge during the academic year. The scheme is intended for scholars who are resident and domiciled in India and are in the earlier or middle stages of their career.
- Applications are closed
CLOSED | Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2024
Applicants wishing to hold a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship in CRASSH should be seeking to pursue projects that are interdisciplinary and/or particularly innovative in their approach to methods and outcomes, and which may therefore fit better at CRASSH than elsewhere in Cambridge. We typically receive a large number of applications at CRASSH, and applicants should justify their choice of host department very clearly.
- Find out more about Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships
- Applications are closed
CLOSED | British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
- Find out more about British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships.
- Applications are closed
CLOSED | Quentin Skinner Lectureship
The Quentin Skinner Fellow holds a Visiting Fellowship at CRASSH for one term during the academic year. The Fellow will be invited to give a lecture on a subject of their choosing in the broad field of intellectual history since 1500, including the history of political thought, and will organise a half-day colloquium to follow the lecture.
- Find out more about the Quentin Skinner Fellowship
- Applications are closed
CLOSED | Nine Dots Prize Fellowship
The Nine Dots Prize seeks to reward original thinking in response to contemporary societal issues. Each Prize cycle lasts two years, with a new question being announced every other October. The winner of each cycle is supported to develop their response into a full-length book, which is published by Cambridge University Press, and given the opportunity to spend a term at CRASSH.
- Find out more about the Nine Dots Prize
- Applications are closed
CLOSED | CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship at Cambridge 2024
- Find out more about CIRN Visiting Fellowships
- Applications are closed
- Writing weeks | CLOSED
The CRASSH writing week will be held in March 2024. It is for UTOs, CTOs, Teaching Associates, and post-doctoral researchers who are employed full-time in an academic post at the University of Cambridge.
- Applications are closed
- Research Labs | CLOSED
CRASSH is launching a new Research Labs programme to facilitate innovative practices of collaborative working in the arts, social sciences, and humanities, both within and beyond the University.
- Applications are closed
- CDH Data Schools | CLOSED
Cultural Heritage Data School
Cambridge Digital Humanities invites applications from participants from across the cultural heritage sector and academia.
- Applications are closed
- Calls for art | CLOSED
Art at the Alison Richard Building (Art at the ARB)
Art at the ARB is an exhibition space at the University of Cambridge.
- Summer Schools | CLOSED
Religious Diversity and the Secular University Summer School 2023
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded project Religious Diversity and the Secular University at CRASSH announces its fourth Summer School from 2 – 12 July 2023 and invites applications from Early Career Scholars for twelve residential fellowships.
- Find out more about the summer school
- Applications are now closed
- Nine Dots Prize writing competition | CLOSED
The Nine Dots Prize has revealed the question it will pose as part of a global problem-solving competition, offering US$100,000 and a book deal with Cambridge University Press for the winning answer.
The question for the 2023/2024 cycle is: Why has the rule of law become so fragile?
- Competition closed