We are keen to encourage prospective Postdoctoral Fellows from outside Oxford to explore the possibility of applying through the Humanities Division, as well as those currently based here. Initially, you should make contact with the person at Oxford who you would like to be your mentor and ask if they would be prepared to undertake this role. Once they have agreed, follow the steps to obtain approval from the relevant Faculty to make the application (section 1 below).
The British Academy runs a two stage application process each year, with the deadline for outline applications falling in late September/early October and for the second stage in February or early March the following year, for Fellowships to be taken up at the beginning of the following academic year.
Should you be interested in applying through Oxford for a BA PDF, please note that your expression of interest application will be assessed by the relevant Faculty in the first instance. The relevant internal deadlines and requirements for each of the Faculties in the Humanities are listed here:
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1st Deadline |
2nd Deadline |
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Contact |
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Faculty of Classics |
23 July 2018 |
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Faculty of English |
15 August 2018 |
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Faculty of History |
16 July 2018 |
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https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/article/british-academy-postdoctoral-fellowships-0 |
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Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics |
17 August 2018 |
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Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages |
30 July 2018 |
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Faculty of Music |
10 August, noon, 2018 |
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https://www.music.ox.ac.uk/ba-postdoc-call-for-applications/ |
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Faculty of Oriental Studies |
3 August 2018 |
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Faculty of Philosophy |
15 August 2018 |
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The Ruskin School of Art |
17 August 2018 |
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Faculty of Theology and Religion |
31st July 2018 |
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(For Social Sciences, please contact the relevant departmental administrator: http://www.socsci.ox.ac.uk/departments3).
For any queries please contact BApostdocs@humanities.ox.ac.uk
Once your application has been approved, the research facilitator responsible will work with you on your application.
We will run a one-day workshop on September 5th (Humanities Division, 3rd floor seminar room) where we will work through the different parts of the application, and also discuss aspects such as objective setting, writing a methodology, workplan and outputs in detail. Once approved by your faculty you will receive an invite to register for this.
Please send your proposal by September 10 to BApostdoc@humanities.ox.ac.uk so we have time to read it and provide feedback.
The internal deadline for submitting applications via the BA’s Flexi-Grant system will be 5 working days before the external BA deadline (17 October 2018) – this is to allow time for institutional approval of your application, a requirement by the British Academy.
The application form for the outline stage will be available on Flexi-Grant from the end of 22 August 2018.
Please note: If you expect to be based in the History Faculty, please see the History faculty website, Home | Faculty of History, and if you have any queries please contact Aileen Mooney on rdo@history.ox.ac.uk. Applicants to Departments outside the Humanities Division should contact the Administrator of the relevant Department for advice on how to proceed.
Further guidance and a timetable for the 2018-19 round are available here:
- Application timetable
- Expression of Interest form
- Guidance on Mentoring
- Guidance for prospective applicants (2018-19 notes still to be issued)
