Visiting Research Fellowships

The Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies at the University of Glasgow is pleased to announce that its Visiting Research Fellowships scheme for 2023 is now open. This scheme seeks to support scholars, scholar-activists and creative professionals from across different disciplines to come to Glasgow and pursue research into topics related to slavery and its legacies, forced labour and human trafficking.

The University of Glasgow is proud to be part of the Universities Studying Slavery consortium and to be working in partnership with the University of the West Indies on a twenty-year Reparative Justice programme. These efforts were spurred by the extensive research done by Dr Stephen Mullen and Professor Simon Newman into the university’s own links to Atlantic slavery. Before and since then, anti-racist campaigners and heritage professionals in Glasgow have supported the university’s efforts to shine a light on histories of slavery and its legacies of inequality, racism, and poverty in modern Scotland.

More information about the reparative justice programme.

The Fellowships are competitive peer-assessed awards. They are designed to provide financial support towards the costs of travel and accommodation to enable researchers to engage with the university community and beyond, focus on a sustained piece of work related to a specific project, and share and discuss their research with audiences in Glasgow. The successful recipient should spend around six weeks at Glasgow in the period of April to June 2023.

How to apply

Applicants are asked to complete the application form and to submit along with a short CV to arts-slaverystudies@glasgow.ac.uk 

The deadline for receipt of applications is 12 noon (GMT) on 16 December 2022.

Terms

  • The total value of the award is up to £6000.
  • The award will be made for a project relating to slavery studies, in its broadest sense. Applicants will be at any stage of their academic career but are expected to be a holder of a completed Ph.D. However, consideration will also be given to applicants with a demonstrable track record in scholar-activism, creative arts, or media. Preference will be given to applicants based in the Caribbean or West Africa.
  • The award will cover a period of no more than six weeks in the calendar year 2023.
  • UofG will book travel (economy class) and will pre-pay accommodation for the successful applicant (based on the information on the proforma). Subsistence (max £40/day), and other reasonable research expenses will be eligible to be claimed, supported by receipts, but always within the total value of £6000 for the award.
  • Applications will be peer-reviewed by a panel of University of Glasgow and University of West Indies academics, associated with the Beniba Centre and with the Glasgow-Caribbean Centre for Development Research, a centre co-hosted by the University of the West Indies and the University of Glasgow.
  • Applicants will be notified of decisions by the end of January 2023.
  • Acknowledgment of the award should be made in any future publications resulting from research undertaken during this award.
  • Research Fellows are expected to submit a short report of their research findings for inclusion on the Beniba Centre website or agree to a recorded podcast / conversation about their research.