Chevening British Library Fellowship 2024/2025: Applications are invited for the Chevening British Library Fellowship 2024-2025. The Fellowship is a collaboration between the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office and the British Library, offering international experts a year-long professional project-based placement. Fellows will have the privilege of working with the extensive library’s collections and benefit from the broad range of professional expertise of library staff.
The British Library is the national library of the UK and one of the world’s greatest research libraries. The British Library’s collection encompasses all fields of knowledge in hundreds of languages, covering 3,500 years from some of the earliest written records to the digital collections of the present day, and range over all formats.
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Chevening British Library Fellowship 2024/2025.
As a public-facing, culturally-active research institute, Chevening is pleased to partner with the British Library to bring international experts to the UK to pursue a one-of-a-kind opportunity. The fellowship is funded by the Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office.
Theme for the Chevening British Library Fellowship .
For the 2024/2025 academic year, two placements are on offer and will provide fellows with experience in strategic and policy work relevant to a national library. There is one placement per theme.
- Automating the recognition of historical Chinese handwritten texts
- Manuscript Textiles in the Southeast Asian Collections
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Benefits of Chevening British Library Fellowship.
- 12-month period of project-based activity at the British Library.
- Living expenses for the duration of the fellowship.
- Return economy airfare from your home country to the UK.
- Allowance package for fellowship-related activities.
- Up to £1,000 for approved project-related expenses.
- Access to a program of cultural events and activities organised by the FCDO and the Chevening Secretariat.
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Chevening Fellowship Application Eligibility
Applicants must:
- Demonstrate the potential to rise to positions of leadership and influence.
- Demonstrate that you possess the personal, intellectual, and interpersonal attributes reflecting this potential.
- Be a citizen of one of the eligible countries.
- Return to your country of citizenship at the end of the period of the fellowship.
- Have a postgraduate level qualification (or equivalent professional training or experience in a relevant area) at the time of application.
- Have significant professional and/or academic research experience (at least five years).
- Be currently employed or a currently enrolled PhD candidate (PhD must not be with a UK/EU or USA university).
- Provide evidence of meeting at least the minimum English language abilities for Chevening Awards.
- Not hold British or dual British citizenship.
- Not be an employee, a former employee, or relative of an employee (since July 2016) of Her Majesty’s Government (including British Embassies/High Commissions, the Department for International Development, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office), the British Council, or a staff member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.
Eligible Countries
- China
- Cambodia
- Laos
- Malaysia
- Myanmar
- Thailand
How to Apply for Chevening British Library Fellowship.
This fellowship program will commence in September 2024 and is for a 12-month period of project-based activity at the British Library.
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