The University of Warwick’s Institute for Advanced Study has today opened its call for applications under the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions COFUND scheme (final deadline: 30th November 2017 - please get in touch with us by 1 November to discuss your application). The fellowships offer successful applicants two years at Warwick, starting in September 2018. These fellowships are intended to be strongly linked to Warwick’s Global Research Priorities. Warwick's School of Modern Languages and Cultures (SMLC) strongly encourages applications tied especially to the ‘Connecting Cultures’ priority.

Details about the scheme are available here: https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/wirl/

Applicants of all nationalities are eligible to apply but applicants must not have resided or carried out their main activity in the United Kingdom for more than 12 months between 8 May 2015 and 7 May 2018.

The application process requires applicants to name a potential academic mentor and host department, and to indicate what discussions have already taken place with this person regarding the proposed fellowship. Warwick’s SMLC has an outstanding research environment – for more information see https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/research/ - and has expertise in a very broad range of areas, from the medieval period to the 21st century. The SMLC’s staff expertise may be viewed here: https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/modernlanguages/research/expertise/
For further information about the Global Research Priority ‘Connecting Cultures’ and its five overarching research themes – Cultures of Translation, Memory and Culture, Rights and Social Justice, and Global Humanities – please see https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/research/priorities/connectingcultures/, and https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/research/priorities/connectingcultures/projects/

Applicants should contact their potential mentor as soon as possible and ideally before 1 November. The potential supervisor will be willing to discuss your project with you and offer suggestions about how to strengthen it.

If you are uncertain about whom to contact, you may get in touch with one of our Directors of Research within the SMLC:

Dr David Lines (Italian Studies; general and interdisciplinary enquiries) – d.a.lines@warwick.ac.uk

Professor Ingrid De Smet (French Studies) – I.de-Smet@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Christine Achinger (German Studies) – PGGerman@warwick.ac.uk

Dr Kirsty Hooper (Hispanic Studies) – k.hooper@warwick.ac.uk