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These fellowships enable mid-career academics or professionals to undertake a period of self-directed research focusing on the culture and civilisation of Islam and contemporary Muslim societies in a global context. Fellows will benefit from meeting a multi-disciplinary group of scholars focusing on the Islamic world.

This multi-disciplinary fellowship enables experts from a variety of sectors within the social sciences to spend up to nine months working with a dedicated academic supervisor on a defined research project. Fellows will have the opportunity to participate in relevant university classes while on award, and will also be able to tap into the expertise of other university academics working in their field of expertise.

This programme enables the chosen fellow to explore how British Overseas Territories in the Atlantic and Caribbean are represented across the British Library’s collections. They will gain first-hand exposure to rare primary sources that may reshape understandings of regional identity and history. They will also have the opportunity to work closely with colleagues across the British Library including the Contemporary British Collections and International departments.

This programme enables the chosen fellow to work on enhancing metadata at scale and unlocking the British Library's historic Southeast European Collections. The fellow will work directly with rare and historic primary sources to deepen their understanding of the Balkan region's identity and history. They will gain hands-on experience working with large bibliographic datasets and will publish research, all while being supported by the Lead Curator for Southeast European Collections, as well as colleagues in cataloguing, digital research, and collection metadata.