This scheme is designed to supplement the regular IASH Visiting Fellowship scheme by encouraging Schools within the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences to nominate scholars from outwith the University whose research will contribute directly to the research plans of the sponsoring unit and the current interests of the Institute.

The Fellowships will be for a maximum tenure of 3 months per person during a period of intensive collaboration with a number of staff. Each Fellow will have a private office in the Institute and will be expected to play a full part both in the activities of the Institute and of the sponsoring group of scholars. There is no stipend associated with these Fellowships, but travel funds can sometimes be made available if needed.

Our most popular scheme is the Postdoctoral Fellowship (up to 10 months), offering about 10 places per year to postdocs from around the world working in any discipline within the arts, humanities and social sciences. Our newest Fellowship programme, the Public Engagement Fellowship, is aimed at postdoctoral researchers seeking to develop their public engagement skills. The RACE.ED Stuart Hall Foundation Fellowship (3 to 6 months) is designed to support research that engages meaningfully with the works of Stuart Hall, building on the Institute Project on Decoloniality from 2021-24. Scholars working on gender and sexualities studies are encouraged to apply for the GENDER.ED Postdoctoral Fellowship (3 to 10 months).

Historians may be interested in the Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellowship in 18th-Century Scottish Studies (2 to 6 months). Scholars with an interest in digital arts, digital humanities, digital education, digital design and digital social sciences may wish to apply for the Digital Research Postdoctoral Fellowship (3 to 6 months). Researchers working in the field of contemporary Islam and Muslim culture can apply for the IASH-Alwaleed Postdoctoral Fellowship (3 to 10 months), while scholars in public theology can apply for the IASH-CTPI Duncan Forrester Fellowship (3 to 10 months).

Scholars wishing to examine specific special collections held at the University of Edinburgh can apply for the Heritage Collections Research Fellowship (3 to 6 months), while special collections in Scotland's national museums are the focus of the IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship (3 to 6 months). Those working in the social sciences, political science, sociology, international relations, social anthropology, sustainable development and associated fields may wish to apply for the IASH-SSPS Research Fellowship (2 to 4 months).

While most of our schemes are open to scholars from any country, some are targeted at scholars from specific countries; for Indian nationals, we offer the Charles Wallace India Trust Fellowship (3 months), as well as the Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust Fellowship (2 to 3 months) for Pakistani nationals, and US citizens or foreign nationals in the US or permanent residents affiliated with a US institution may apply for the American Philosophical Society Fellowship (2 to 4 months). We also offer the British Council 90th Anniversary Research Fellowship (12 months) for postdoctoral researchers based in any ODA-recipient country where the British Council operates. Lastly, early career researchers who already have their own funding but wish to be affiliated to the University of Edinburgh may apply for the Visiting Research Fellowship (minimum of 2 months), which provides an office at IASH but is not accompanied by a bursary.