British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships

The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships is a three-year award made to an annual cohort of outstanding early career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.

The Music Department at the University of Manchester invites applications from prospective applicants to the British Academy’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme, with a deadline for receipt of applications on Wednesday, 12 October 2022. Full details of the scheme are given on the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships website. Candidates must be within three years of the award of their doctorate (this means the award must have been made via a viva voce examination between 1st April 2020 and 1st April 2023), and must be a UK or EEA national, or have completed their doctorate at a UK university.

Music at The University of Manchester is one of the leading research departments in the UK. With a culture based on our long-standing track record of world-leading research and a strong community of academic staff, researchers and postgraduate students, research drives everything that we do. Our staff maintain outstanding international profiles in a diverse range of specialist areas encompassing musicology and music analysis, ethnomusicology, composition and performance studies. Our position within the musically and intellectually vibrant city of Manchester also encourages exciting interdisciplinary partnerships with partners working on topics ranging from early modern material cultures to contemporary urban soundscapes, and from the politics of musical suppression in the Cold War to the promotion of wellbeing through the modern community choir. Full details of our research activities are given on our Research web pages.

Applicants who would like to be hosted by the Music Department at the University of Manchester to pursue a 3-year project, distinct from their PhD research, are required to first contact their proposed departmental mentor as well as the department's Director of Research, Prof. David Berezan. Potential mentors amongst Music academic staff are listed (with specialisms) here.

You must subsequently provide your mentor with a draft proposal and 2-page CV no later than Monday, 8 August 2022. Drafts can be completed, in consultation with your mentor, using the British Academy’s FlexiGrant portal.

Further guidance on what is needed in each section can be found in the British Academy’s guidance notes.

Note that it is not necessary to complete details of financial information at this stage.

Outline proposals will be subject to an internal competition within the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University. Applicants who are successful at this stage will receive specialist support from the University to complete the full application process to the British Academy before the competition deadline in October 2022.