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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.

The fellowship is designed for mid-career professionals from across Europe who have demonstrated leadership potential in security and defence. The programme aims to develop leaders capable of operating effectively within complex and rapidly changing security and defence contexts. 

The Chevening British Library Coptic Collections Fellowship offers mid-career professionals from Egypt, Palestine and Sudan the opportunity to undertake a research project at the British Library, working with its internationally significant Coptic manuscript collections. Fellows will draw on their language skills, subject expertise and professional experience to survey Coptic holdings, enhance catalogue records, explore collection provenance, and develop new approaches to public and community engagement with this important cultural heritage.

The Chevening British Library Southeast Asian Fellowship offers mid-career professionals from Cambodia, Laos and Thailand the opportunity to undertake a research project at the British Library, working with its significant collections of early printed works in Cambodian, Lao and Thai. Fellows will survey and assess rare materials dating from c.1840 to 1950, providing metadata in original scripts and Romanisation to support the creation of catalogue records, while gaining experience working with colleagues across the British Library’s Southeast Asia and Conservation teams.