AHRC International Placement Scheme 2020

The 2020 round of the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) International Placement Scheme (IPS) will enable early career researchers (ECR), doctoral level research assistants and AHRC funded doctoral students to take up short term placements in order to make use of internationally renowned research collections, programmes and expertise to conduct research.

For this round, IPS scholars will be based at one of the following host institutions:

Harry Ransom Center (HRC), The University of Texas at Austin, USA

The Huntington Library, California, USA

The Library of Congress (LoC), Washington DC, USA

National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU), Japan

National Museum Institute (NMI), New Delhi, India

Shanghai Theatre Academy (STA), Shanghai, China

Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA

The Yale Center for British Art (YCBA), Connecticut, USA

Placements last for between two and six months. IPS fellows will receive a monthly allowance of £1,500 (over and above any existing award) and an £870 stipend for travel and visa costs.

Eligible applicants will be UK-resident students or staff at Research Council approved UK research organisations.

Applications should be submitted by the deadline of 6 February 2020.

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