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• Overview
• Research Professional Africa
• International funding
• URC funding
• NRF funding
• Other national funding
• Fellowships
  • Commonwealth
  • DAAD
  • Oppenheimer Memorial Trust
  • Fulbright
• Funding through contracts
• Donors & foundations
• Award nominations

Association of Commonwealth Universities

Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowships

Aim

Commonwealth Academic Fellowships support mid-career academics to spend three months at a UK university. These fellowships are funded by the UK Department for International Development (DFID).

Deadline

Annually in December. Consult the Announcements page regularly for updated calls and internal deadlines.

Eligibility Criteria

To apply for a Commonwealth Academic Fellowship, candidates should:

• be a South African citizen or have permanent residency status;
• be available to commence their Fellowship in the United Kingdom on 1 October of the year following the application due date – any other start date will only be permitted in exceptional circumstances;
• have been employed for at least five years as an academic staff member of a university in a developing Commonwealth country; and
• be in the employment of UCT and eith (i) hold a doctorate or (ii) in the fields of medicine and denistry, have qualified as doctor or dentist before 1 October 2002. Please see Scholarship Opportunities if you qualified after this date.

Titular Fellowships

Aim

The ACU Titular Fellowships provide opportunities for nominees of Commonwealth universities to spend periods of time in other Commonwealth member universities or relevant institutions outside their own country. ACU Titular Fellowships are not intended for degree courses, or for immediately postdoctoral programmes. They cannot be held in the country in which the applicant currently works, and they cannot be held concurrently with other awards. Titular Fellowships are tenable in any Commonwealth country (other than South Africa) for up to a maximum of six months at either a university in ACU membership or in industry, commerce or public service of ACU membership countries.

Deadline

Annually in June

Eligibility Criteria

An applicant must be a UCT staff member and of proven high ability.

Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowships

Aim

UCT is annually invited to nominate ONE CANDIDATE for the Commonwealth Scholarships. In order to be nominated, the candidate should be a full-time academic staff member at the time of the application and they should return to this position after the scholarship.

Deadline

Annually in December. Consult the Announcements page regularly for updated calls and internal deadlines.

Eligibility Criteria

To be nominated for a Commonwealth Scholarship the candidate should be:

• a full-time UCT employees holding a full-time academic post at the time of application to which they intend to return following any scholarship;
• a South African citizen or permanently resident in South Africa;
• a candidate wishing to pursue doctoral study must provide the Commission with evidence of support from at least ONE prospective supervisor at the time of application

Applications for split-site study must be made in context of an institutional link between the institution where the candidate is registered in their home country and the one at which they are applying to study in the UK. Candidates must provide the Commission with evidence of support from their prospective supervisor at the UK institution as well as from their home supervisor at the time of application.

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Contact us

Wilna Venter
Tel: 021 650 4380

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Commonwealth Academic Staff Fellowships

Titular Felloships

Commonwealth Scholarships for Academic Staff