Funded Research Fellowships
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Warburg Institute Funded Research Fellowships
Long-Term Research Fellowships in Intellectual, Cultural and Art History
Nine to twelve-month post-doctoral fellowships which support research on projects on any aspect of cultural, intellectual or art history supported by the resources of the Institute’s collections.
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Short-Term Research Fellowships in Intellectual, Cultural and Art History
Each year the Institute offers post-doctoral short-term Yates Fellowships to support research on projects on any aspect of cultural, intellectual or art history supported by the resources of the Institute’s Library, Photographic Collection or Archive.
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Assetto Fellowships for Creative Practitioners-in-Residence
The Warburg’s Assetto Fellowships will see the Institute host three creative practitioners per year to fall within each 3- or 4-month academic term.
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Collections Research Grants
The Warburg Library, Photographic Collection and Archive comprise significant research collections for students, academics and a national and international scholarly community. A limited number of short-term Collections Research Grants are available to scholars of all levels and nationalities, including PhD candidates, for research focused on any of these collections.
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Ouseley Short-Term Research Fellowship - CLOSED.
Please note we are not accepting applications for the 2025/26 academic year.
An award providing financial support towards living and subsistence costs in London to enable scholars to undertake a period of research on the Arabic, Persian, Hindustani and other Oriental languages in the UK.
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Joint Research Funded Fellowships
Warburg/I Tatti Joint Fellowship - Applications now open
The Warburg Institute and Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, offer a joint residential fellowship for the 2025-2026 academic year.
Census Fellowship in the Reception of Antiquity
The Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History, and the Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Study, University of London, are pleased to announce a fellowship in Berlin, Rome, and London, offered at either the predoctoral or postdoctoral level.
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Spirituality and the Arts
The Warburg Institute, alongside Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions and the Centre for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents at the University of Amsterdam, invites applications for their joint Postdoctoral Fellowship in Spirituality and the Arts. This fellowship is an opportunity for scholars to engage in research that explores the dynamic interplay between spirituality and artistic expression, within the framework of the “Transcendence and Transformation” initiative.
Externally Funded Research Fellowships
Universität Hamburg: Aby Warburg Fellowship
This scholarship from the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg serves to support scholarly projects requiring a sojourn for studies at the Warburg Institute, University of London.
Externally Funded Long-Term Fellowships
British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellowships, Marie Curie Early Career Fellowships and Kress Foundation Fellowships.