Warwick's Centre for the Study of the Renaissance (CSR) invites expressions of interest for the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme. These awards are intended to offer opportunities for outstanding early career researchers to strengthen their experience of research and teaching in a university environment that will develop their curriculum vitae and improve their prospects of obtaining permanent academic posts by the end of the Fellowship. The primary emphasis is on completion of a significant piece of publishable research, which will be assisted by full membership of an academic community of established scholars working in similar fields. The CSR is keen to support outstanding new fellows and has been successful with this scheme in recent years.

The Faculty of Arts at the University of Warwick is one of the world’s top 50 Arts and Humanities faculties and is home to a thriving research culture spread across seven Departments and Schools (see https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/research/). The CSR is a buoyant hub of interdisciplinary research, with a well-established international reputation with for example, the Newberry Library (Chicago) and its consortium, Johns Hopkins University, the Warburg Institute, Ca' Foscari University (Venice), and Monash (Australia). Specialisms range from the Middle Ages to the seventeenth century, in particular covering Italy, France, Spain, England, the Holy Roman Empire, and their territories. Particular strengths of CSR members include theatre and literature, intellectual history, social and cultural history, history of the book, history of religion, history of science and medicine, history of art, history of universities, epistolary networks, history of translation, the relationships between Neo-Latin and the vernaculars, and the classical tradition. Potential mentors can be found here, tick to filter for 'academic staff'. If you need help finding a mentor, please contact the Centre's DirectorLink opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window, Teresa Grant.

Applications are welcomed from candidates who have a strong research profile.

• Applicants are expected to have completed their viva voce between 1 April 2022 and 1 April 2025
• They must either be a UK/EEA national, have completed their doctorate at a UK university or have a strong prior association with the UK academic community
• They must not yet have held a permanent academic appointment
• Appointments at the University of Warwick are dependent on the award of the Fellowship. The expectation is that Fellows should undertake a significant piece of publishable work during the funded period. For more information on the scheme’s aims and eligibility criteria, please visit https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/postdoctoral-fellowships/

Interested applicants are strongly encouraged to complete the Expression of InterestLink opens in a new window form by 28 July 2024 attaching all relevant / required documents. This is a Renaissance Centre internal deadline for expressions of interest only. This is not the deadline for full applications, as detailed on the website here, which is the 28th August 2024.

Note that applicants who have just recently finished their PhD and/or do not already have a strong publication record (i.e., do not have a monograph nearly ready to submit to a publisher) are unlikely to be successful in this competition. Other postdoctoral schemes may be more suitable.