Charles Wallace India Trust seeks applications from Indian academics, writers and translators for Visiting Fellowships enabling the fellows to spend between two and three months at selected universities in Britain where they can devote themselves to their own work and interact with colleagues.
Currently there are ten fellowships, each of which is intended to be mutually beneficial. The fellow is expected to contribute to the life of the host institution e.g. by leading a seminar in which they present their research or writing.
Fellows are chosen by agreement between the host institution and CWIT. Applications should be made direct to the university.
The fellowships cover a contribution to international fares and accommodation and living costs in the UK.
Eligibility
Applicants must
be Indian citizens living in India
- be between 25 and 45 ( except for translator fellowships for which there is no upper age limit)
- have completed postgraduate studies in their area of specialization and/or have between 5-7 years professional or academic experience
- include a proposal stating clearly what they want to do at the host institution and how they plan to use the experience on return to India
- not have had a CWIT grant for the previous 5 years
The Fellowships and Host Universities
- Writer Fellowship, University of Kent, Department of English
- Writer Fellowship, University of Stirling, Centre of Commonwealth Studies
- Writer Fellowship, University of Chichester
- Visiting Fellow in Contemporary Asian Studies, Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge
- Visiting Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS)
- Visiting Fellow in Contemporary South Asian Studies Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) Edinburgh University
- Visiting Fellow in Social Anthropology at the School of History and Anthropology, Queen’s University Belfast
- Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), Cambridge University
- Translator fellowships at the British Centre for Literary Translation; University of East Anglia. 2 Fellowships of 2 months each.
Applications for all the above should be made direct to the universities.
Application deadlines for each fellowship vary slightly and can be enquired from the respective university website.
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