The award is worth up to £12,000, out of which visa, travel, accommodation and maintenance costs will be paid.
(The Centre is not able to provide additional sums for the travel and living expenses of anyone accompanying the Fellow to Cambridge. The sum is not subject to tax in the UK)
Eligibilities
Applications are invited from candidates in all the disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
Open to early-to mid-career candidates with an accomplished or highly promising research profile
Candidates must hold teaching or research position at an African university
The application should have a Ph.D. submitted at the time of application.
It is expected that applicants would be intending to come to Cambridge to work on a project building on existing research for which a period of residence in Cambridge is demonstrably appropriate.
They should present a clear and feasible plan for preparing one or more pieces of work for publication