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

This funding opportunity enables early career postdoctoral, or equivalent, researchers to gain research and career experience in the galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) sector. Fellows will work with a major cultural or heritage host organisation on a co-designed research project that benefits the fellow and the host organisation. The scheme aims to create new opportunities for early career postdoctoral researchers to build, deepen or broaden their experience of working in, and with, major cultural and heritage organisations, develop the fellows' skills and future research career in areas of relevance to the work, collections and practices of cultural and heritage organisations, deliver high quality and impactful research and innovation projects, enhance the host organisation's capacity to undertake research and innovation activities, address the lack of dedicated support at the early stage of research careers across the GLAM sector, promote equality, diversity and inclusion principles, strengthen efforts to build and diversify research capabilities in the cultural heritage research and innovation ecosystem, and further extend the GLAM sector's engagement with, and contribution to, society. The fellowship includes a tailored training and development programme delivered primarily online with some in-person events including a residential, designed to support researchers working across the GLAM and higher education institution sectors.