AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme
The AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme is designed to provide exceptional African researchers an opportunity to build international networks and focus on a project of their choice, away from teaching and administrative duties at their home institutions. The AfOx Fellowship provides fellows with an opportunity to work on a project of their choice in collaboration with Oxford-based scholars, while benefit from the resources available at Oxford University for research, writing, and strengthening research leadership skills. The Fellowship is open to researchers across all academic fields. Fellows will be affiliated with the University of Oxford for 12 months, including 10 months of virtual engagement and a 2 month in-person visit to Oxford during Trinity Term. To apply for a fellowship all applicants must have an Oxford based researcher named as their collaborator on their application.
AfOx Fellows will be asked to select which of the AfOx research themes, Healthy People, Innovation for Prosperity, Integrated Societies and Green Futures, their project most closely aligns with
AfOx Visiting Fellows
Previous AfOx Visiting Fellows have worked on a range of fascinating projects during their time in Oxford. These range from developing an AI platform to preserve languages, studying the evolution of galaxies to solving partial differential equations via rational functions and reframing peace and conflict studies to assessing deep-sea ecosystems.
Hear what they have to say about their Fellowship experience in this video.
Find out more about the projects AfOx Visiting Fellows have worked on while in Oxford here.
AfOx Fellowship
AfOx fellowships are open to ALL disciplines across ALL the Universities departments. We encourage applications across the full range of academic disciplines and to work with any researcher based at the University of Oxford.
During the Fellowship, AfOx Fellows are associated with a Department and a College within the University. Fellows can apply to work with scholars based in any of the University’s departments. AfOx is a cross-university platform which supports collaboration across all the departments at Oxford University. Learn more about the Collegiate University system at Oxford here.
We welcome applications from all academic disciplines and particularly encourage applications from female and underrepresented researchers.
All AfOx fellowship applications are made through the same process using the same application portal. Applications closed at midnight -UTC- October 21st 2022
AfOx Visiting Fellowship Partners:
A number of the AfOx fellowships are offered in collaboration with key partners at the University of Oxford. These include TORCH, Oxford Department for International Development, The Law Faculty, The Mathematical Institute and the African Studies Centre.
This AfOx Mathematics fellowship aims to connect a research-active mathematician based at an African institution to faculty based at the Mathematical Institute at the University of Oxford.
The Mathematical Institute is one of the leading mathematics departments in the world, with strengths in research into both fundamental mathematics and its applications. It holds a silver Athena Swan award to recognise advancement of gender equality: representation, progression and success for all.
Applications are open to researchers with existing research interests compatible with those of the Mathematical Institute current faculty. Applicants must clearly state which one of the Mathematical Institute research groups you feel is closest to your work. While in Oxford the AfOx Mathematics Fellow will work with faculty within the Institute and across other disciplines where appropriate, to develop research ideas, projects and events. This can include research papers, ideas for co-led projects, future joint research developments.
The AfOx Mathematics Fellow will be welcomed into the research community at the Institute and
supported to develop longer-term research connection.
ODID is the focus at Oxford for research on developing countries and emerging economies, and on their relationship with the rest of the world. The department’s four key research groups – the Refugee Studies Centre, Young Lives, the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative and the Technology and Management Centre for Development – are at the forefront of their fields.
ODID draws on its unique strengths – the exceptional range and depth of disciplinary and regional expertise and extensive connections to networks across the Global South – to generate academically rigorous research into the underlying structures and overarching processes of development. Drawing on this deep scholarship, ODID researchers seek to forge new ways of thinking about development that can help improve the lives of ordinary people, whether by informing policy at the highest level or by changing practice on the ground.
Applicants in the field of international development will be eligible to apply for an additional 2 month in-person fellowship to make a total of 4 months in Oxford. This additional in-person fellowship is offered by the Oxford Department of International Development (ODID). Due the nature of research and teaching at the department, ODID is offering an extended in-person fellowship for up to 4 months ( from February 2023). Selected fellows will be supported in making the relevant arrangements for the longer fellowships.
The AfOx-Law fellowships target academics holding a full-time position at an African academic institution working on a topic within the broad range of research undertaken at the Faculty. This programme is intended for visiting scholars with a clearly defined research agenda, who wish to spend time in Oxford to make use of the Faculty’s research facilities.
Oxford University’s African Studies Centre is one of the world’s leading centres of African Studies. With particular strengths in the Social Sciences and the Humanities, the Centre enjoys a reputation for high quality, relevant research that plays a leading role in academic debates as well as public policy. Read more about the African Studies Center here.
The AfOx-ASC fellowship provides opportunities for Africa-based scholars to spend time away from teaching and other obligations with the benefit of using the vast resources available in Oxford University for research, writing, mentoring in collaboration with an Oxford-based scholar.
The fellows are expected to make a presentation of the draft work during or at the end of the fellowship at a ‘writing workshop’ where Oxford-based scholars will provide critical feedback for publication. Applications are encouraged from candidates in every region of Africa.
Launched in May 2013, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH) provides an important opportunity for Oxford’s humanities scholars to collaborate with researchers across other disciplines and institutions and develop partnerships with public and private institutions. In seeking to connect Oxford researchers with other organisations globally, TORCH supports Fellowships that brings researchers from abroad to Oxford. Read more about TORCH here.
Applications are open to researchers with interdisciplinary projects from a broad range of research areas in the Humanities. The Fellow will be based in Oxford during Trinity term and work with Oxford researchers in the Humanities, and across other disciplines where appropriate, to develop research ideas, projects and events. This can include research papers, ideas for co-led projects, and future joint research developments in the area of humanities. Examples of areas of priority are research related to history, languages, religion, environmental humanities, medical humanities, intersectional humanities, race and resistance, digital humanities, performance and cultural heritage.
The Fellow will be welcomed into the Oxford community at TORCH and supported as part of the research community during their fellowship, with a view to develop a longer-term research connection.
Guide for Fellows
Please download the guide for fellows below
Guide for Collaborators
Please download the guide for collaborators below
Frequently Asked Questions
Please read through the FAQs while applying for the Fellowship
Applications for the AfOx Visiting Fellowship Programme are currently open.
