The Department of Languages and Cultures at Lancaster University is offering a short-term funded Fellowship to support the research and professional development of researchers in French and Francophone Studies.

We invite applications from colleagues at all career stages who hold a PhD. The Fellowship provides funding of £1500, to cover travel, on-campus accommodation and a small per diem for a period of 2-3 weeks, to be agreed with the successful applicant.

We invite applications from scholars with a research focus on France or the Francophone world related to one of our areas of research expertise, which are: Critical Pedagogies for Languages, Disability and Health, Environment and Social Change, Comparative Literature and the Arts, Translation Studies. Details can be found here: https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/languages-and-cultures/research/

Fellows are expected to pursue their own research during the Fellowship and to contribute to the life of the department, for example, by presenting their research as part of the Department of Languages and Cultures research seminar series.

Applicants should submit a research proposal which specifies as an objective a defined outcome for the research carried out during the period of the fellowship, such as a grant application, an article, chapter in a book, or book proposal. The fellowship should be acknowledged in all outputs resulting from the fellowship.

Applicants should send the following documents to Professor Charlotte Baker c.baker@lancaster.ac.uk in an email with the subject line Yves Hervouet Research Fellowship by Friday 31^st May 2024:

• A Research Proposal detailing the research project to be carried out during the Fellowship (maximum: 500 words)

• A short CV (not longer than four pages including Publications)

• The names and email addresses of two referees

Interviews will be held in June. Successful applicants must be available to take up the fellowship in Lancaster during Michaelmas Term (October to December).