Funding opportunity: Early career fellowships in cultural and heritage institutions: 2025 (invite only)

Apply for funding to conduct research at cultural and heritage institutions.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funding.

The main requirements for this opportunity are as follows.

You must:

• be an early career researcher
• hold a doctorate in a relevant subject or have equivalent professional experience and skills
• align with your proposed host’s interests

Only applicants successful at the expression of interest stage may apply.

Projects can cost up to £312,500 . AHRC funds 80%.

Fellowships start on 1 January 2027 and last one to two years (longer if part-time).