Opportunities

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

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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.

• Find out more about events funding
• Read the funding FAQs
• The current funding round for events and initiatives is now open
• Closing date for applications is 15 October 2023

Apply

Visiting Fellowships 2023 – 2024 OPEN

Visiting Fellowships are designed to support the Centre’s research interests, projects, and activities. Depending on the fellowship, Fellows are usually given desk space in the Centre as well as certain practical assistance in their research. CRASSH can assist in arranging accommodation in a College and enable access to the University Library and other departmental libraries. CRASSH may also support visitors who come to Cambridge for a period of days or weeks to participate in a particular activity organised by the Centre. If you have your own funding in place you should apply to the Centre well in advance of your intended visit.

• Find out more about Visiting Fellowships at CRASSH
• Application deadlines: 2 October 2023 & 1 February 2024

Apply

Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2024 OPEN

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
• Application deadline for CRASSH: 30 October 2023

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships CLOSED

• Find out more about British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships.
  
• Applications are closed

Quentin Skinner Lectureship CLOSED

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
• Competition closed

Nine Dots Prize Fellowship CLOSED

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
• Competition is closed

Crausaz Wordsworth Interdisciplinary Fellowship in Philosophy CLOSED

(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.

• Find out more about Crausaz Wordsworth Fellowships
• Competition closed

Cambridge Early Career Fellowships CLOSED

(Cambridge scholars only)

The Early Career Fellowship Scheme, sponsored jointly by CRASSH and the Schools of Arts and Humanities (CSAH) and Humanities and Social Sciences (SHSS), enables early-career academics to take a term away from teaching to start a new project, with the Centre providing an inspirational collaborative environment in which to carry out research.

• Find out more about Early Career Fellowships at CRASSH
• Competition closed

Visiting Fellowships for scholars from the Global South CLOSED

CRASSH is offering a new 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.

• Find out more about the Visiting Fellowship
• Applications are closed

CIRN Intesa Sanpaolo Visiting Fellowship at Cambridge 2024 CLOSED

• Find out more about CIRN Visiting Fellowships
• Applications are closed

Planetary health

Cambridge Zero is organising a series of  Research Symposia, to highlight all the exciting and ground-breaking research on climate change, adaptation, and net-zero solutions happening across the University of Cambridge. The aim of these events is to help build and strengthen our internal Cambridge Zero research community, and to encourage new connections and collaborations.

• Call for submissions
• Deadline 18 October 2023

Queer & Trans philologies

A two-day hybrid conference that seeks to give a platform to this unruly family of philologies by bringing together researchers working across disciplines on the historical ties between language, sexuality, and embodiment.

• Call for papers
• Deadline 31 October 2023

The Cambridge misinformation hackathon

This event is for undergraduate and postgraduate students from all disciplines to tackle the root causes of and devise potential actionable solutions for the ongoing Misinformation Crisis. In an era marked by growing polarization and diminishing trust in scientific institutions, this hackathon aspires to cultivate critical and constructive discourses within the academic community.

• Call for participants
• Deadline 5 November 2023
  
  

Art at the Alison Richard Building (Art at the ARB)

Art at the ARB is an exhibition space at the University of Cambridge.

• Find out more about Art at the ARB
• Deadline for proposals 30 September 2023

Submit a proposal

There are currently no vacancies at CRASSH

Research networks funding

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.

• Find out more about CRASSH research networks
• This competition is closed.
  
• The competition for the academic year 2024 – 2025 will be open in January 2024.

The first CRASSH Writing Week will be held between 10 and 14 July 2023. 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.

Find out more about the Writing week.

• Applications are 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

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