British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025-26

The British Academy (BA) have now announced their popular Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme, with a deadline for submissions of 1st October 2025. This communication is to provide departments with an overview of the University’s processes for this round of the scheme.

Scheme Overview

The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship is a three-year fellowship for outstanding early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences. The scheme aims to help develop the award holder’s curriculum vitae and boost their prospects of obtaining a permanent university post. The primary emphasis is on the completion of a significant piece of publishable research, and the integration of the award holder into the community of established scholars within their field. Fellowships are tenable in all fields within the humanities and social sciences. This is a highly competitive scheme and success rates are typically no more than 10%.

University procedures in 2025