Fully Funded Chevening-Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) Fellowship for Mid-Career Professionals in the UK 2024.

The Chevening Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) Fellowships are aimed at mid-career academics or professionals who are dedicated to the promotion of academic activities which encourage a more informed understanding of the culture and civilisation of Islam and contemporary Muslim societies.

Programme structure

Fellows will undertake a 6-month period of self-directed research focusing on their own project 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 and have the opportunity to develop contacts with relevant individuals, discuss issues relating to the Islamic world, including Islamic history, classical Islamic sciences, economics and Islamic finance, public health, science and technology in the Muslim world, and the study of Muslims in the West. Fellows will contribute to the Centre’s objective to encourage and promote sustained dialogue and collaboration within the global academic community of the culture and civilisation of Islam and contemporary Muslim societies.

OCIS is an institution for the advanced study of Islam and the Muslim world and provides a meeting point for the Western and Islamic worlds of learning.

This fellowship programme will commence in October 2024. Fellows will need to develop their own research project to focus on during their fellowship prior to arriving in the UK.

Eligibility

The Chevening OCIS Abdullah Gül Fellowship is available to applicants from Turkey .

To be eligible for a Chevening OCIS Fellowship, you must:

Demonstrate the potential to rise to a position of leadership and influence
Demonstrate the personal, intellectual and interpersonal attributes reflecting this potential
Be a citizen of Afghanistan (please see note below on additional eligibility criteria), Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Libya, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Philippines, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, or Uzbekistan
Return to country of your citizenship at the end of the period of the fellowship
Hold a postgraduate level qualification (or equivalent professional training or experience in a relevant area) at the time of application
Have significant professional and/or academic research experience (at least five years)
Have a good working knowledge of English to be assessed in your application form and if you are invited to interview
Not hold British or dual-British citizenship
Not be an employee, a former employee, or relative* of an employee of His Majesty’s Government, or have been within the last two years from the opening of Chevening applications (including the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, all British Embassies/High Commissions, the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Trade and the UKVI), the British Council, a sponsoring UK university, or a staff member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.

* Note: Immediate relatives are defined as parents or step-parents, siblings or step-siblings, children or step-children, spouse, civil partner or unmarried (where the couple have been in a relationship akin to marriage or civil partnership for at least two years).

Benefits

Six-month period of research at OCIS.
Living expenses for the duration of the fellowship.
Return economy airfare from home country to the UK.
Allowance package for research-related activities.
Access to a programme of cultural events and activities organised by the FCDO and the Chevening Secretariat.

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