Call for Applications: Fully Funded Edinburgh Futures Institute Visiting Fellowship Programme 2025/2026

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Closing Date: 23 January 2025

Call for Applications: Fully Funded Edinburgh Futures Institute Visiting Fellowship Programme 2025/2026

Overview

Edinburgh Futures Institute is seeking applications for its Visiting Fellowship Programme 2025/2026, following the success of its inaugural programme last year.

Edinburgh Futures Institute is seeking applications that align with its vision to challenge, create, and make change happen. Tackle complex issues by bringing people and disciplines together to spark the unexpected and make better futures possible.

The Visiting Fellowship programme offers researchers who have an open-ended position within an academic institution the chance to work within the Futures Institute for 3-6 months. Edinburgh Futures Institute is offering a bursary of £1,500.00 per month, as well as reimbursement of travel and visa costs, where required. Successful applicants will be expected to make a contribution to Edinburgh Futures Institute research community, through delivering guest lectures or seminars, collaborating on grant proposals, or contributing to teaching.

The applicant’s research should contribute to collaborative, data-driven, and interdisciplinary research innovation across the University of Edinburgh, within one of its six key research areas:

Creative Industries & Digital Humanities

Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence
Financial Services & Fintech
Future Infrastructure

Public Sector: prevention, data civics, participatory democracy, governance
Tourism & Festivals

Eligibility

Applications are encouraged from researchers in these fields, and decisions will be made based on experience and research commensurate to career stage. Edinburgh Futures Institute will also give particular consideration to those from Low or Middle-Income Countries, or other applicants who represent minorities not currently well-represented at the Futures Institutes.

Visiting fellows will be able to take part in Edinburgh Futures Institute seminars and events programmes, access its training courses, and interact with other academics affiliated with the Futures Institute, its partners from the business and third sector, and its students. The scheme will therefore help the fellows to develop their research in conversation with colleagues in Edinburgh but will also allow Edinburgh Futures Institute and the wider University to foster new international collaborative links. Successful applicants will be notified by the end of February