The Institute for German and European Studies at the University of Birmingham is keen to support applications to the 2021 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme from outstanding postdoctoral scholars.

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships provide funding for a period of three years from autumn 2022. For full details of the scheme, including its eligibility criteria are available at the British Academy postdoctoral fellowship website.

The Institute for German and European Studies (IGES) would be delighted to offer support and advice to early career scholars working in relevant subject areas, who wish to apply to this scheme. Given the highly competitive nature of the scheme, we would normally expect applicants to have passed their doctoral viva and to have at least two high-quality publications.

The IGES brings together experts on Germany and Europe from a range of departments, including political science, modern languages, history and art history. The IGES was established in 1994 as a partnership between the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the University of Birmingham and is part of an active network of 20 DAAD centres of German and European Studies in Europe, North and South America, Israel and East Asia.

The IGES is based at the University of Birmingham as an interdisciplinary Institute within the College of Social Sciences and the College of Arts and Law. An important part of our mission is to support postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers, and to bring them together with experienced scholars and international thinkers on Germany and Europe. For more information on postgraduate studies at the IGES, please see https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/iges/courses/index.aspx.

Our research areas include ‘The UK, Germany and Europe’, ‘Relationality, Identity and Migration’, ‘Memory, Testimony and Uses of History’, ‘Agency, Inequality and Deviance’, ‘States and Societies in Central and Eastern Europe’, and ‘Promoting German Studies in the UK’. For further information on the research culture of the IGES, including our areas of specialism, major research projects and grants, conferences and research seminars, please go to https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/iges/index.aspx.

The IGES research community currently comprises 17 PhD researchers, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, two Gerda Henkel Research Fellows, 9 associate fellows and 23 members of academic staff.

The application deadline for the 2021 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme is 14 October 2021. However, to make sure we have sufficient time to work together with applicants on the proposals, the IGES has its own earlier, internal deadlines.
If you are interested in applying through the IGES, please send
- a 1-2 page academic CV (including the date of your doctoral viva)
- a 1-2 page outline of your proposed postdoctoral research, including a short statement on the project’s institutional fit with the IGES
- the name of your mentor at the IGES
to Dr Klaus Richter (K.Richter@bham.ac.uk) by 2 September 2021 (noon). Successful candidates will be invited to submit their proposal through the British Academy’s application system.