LUCAS-LAHRI Virtual Visiting Research Fellowships

The Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS), in collaboration with the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute (LAHRI), is pleased to have selected six researchers who will hold short-term Virtual Visiting Research Fellowships for 2025-26.

Their projects focus on the theme of "Africa's Entanglements in a Global World', and examine the continent’s role as an active participant in shaping global dynamics rather than a passive recipient of external influences.

The Virtual Visiting Research Fellowships are short-term fellowships for academics based at institutions on the African continent, who through these positions have an opportunity to undertake a well-defined piece of research with a view to establishing research partnerships with academics at the University of Leeds.

The Visiting Fellowships last 10 months from 1 August 2025 - 31 May 2026. Each Visiting Fellowship comes with an award of £1,000 to be used by the applicant to pursue their planned research.

The ‘well-defined piece of research’ that the researcher will work on during the Visiting Fellowship will have a tangible output, in the form of a publication (jointly authored with, or otherwise with active input from, a University of Leeds academic) and/or a grant application (jointly prepared with a University of Leeds academic and supported by LAHRI).

Find out more about our 2024-25 cohort of Fellows, whose work focused on the theme of 'African Ecologies' on our Visiting Fellows page.

We expect to launch the selection process for the next cohort of Visiting Fellows in spring 2026 we will share details on this page as soon as they are available.