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21 Jan 2026 Call for lecture proposals - The Last Tuesday Society

Calling all authors, experts, scholars and enthusiasts! The Last Tuesday Society hosts a weekly Monday night series of weird and wonderful talks. Interested in giving a lecture in our most curious venue?

Must be available to host the lecture at our location in London.

Email for submission attached in the Instagram post.

26 Jan 2026 Crypt Gallery (St Pancras, London) Residency 2026

Residency for 9 - 20 Feb 2026

The Crypt Gallery Residency is a chance to do research, use the space as a resource, test out work, write, use as a creative space.

26 Jan 2026 New Architecture Writers 2026 cohort

Deadline: 10am GMT, 26 Jan 2026

31 Jan 2026 Curriers’ Essay Prize - The London Journal

Prize: £1000

https://www.history.ac.uk/funding/awards-bursaries-prizes/curriers-prize

31 Jan 2026 Avery Review Essay Prize

06 Feb 2026 make online - Open call for presentations

We welcome proposals for presentations of 10 minutes or less that incorporate a wide range of content exploring different aspects of artistic and educational practice.

We are particularly interested in:

  • Experimental approaches to teaching and making art that you may have developed and incorporated into your practice
  • Demonstrations of a variety of skills, ideas, resources and approaches that focus on the development of material literacy and making practices in art education
  • Work or research that advocates for the intrinsic value of art as a vital component of education

https://form.typeform.com/to/FLRqdBNN

07 Feb 2026 Mayflies - Oral history research collective meeting at the MayDay Rooms, London

Mayflies is a new, peer-to-peer oral history research collective, who will meet at the MayDay Rooms, London. The group is for 18-30 year olds who can commit to twice-monthly meetings on Tuesday - Thursday nights, 6-8pm.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mkZBUg-zBPRGFd4W_NJK8zLyxqEwH3lZ698eXPV7LtY

23 Feb 2026 The London Library Emerging Writers Programme 2026/27

26 Feb 2026 Funding: Research Revival Fund

Research Revival is an experimental fund restoring neglected, illegible, or prematurely dismissed research to active circulation.

26 Feb 2026 Architectural Writing Residency - Porteous Studio, Edinburgh, Scotland

We are inviting applications for a one-week Architectural Writing Residency, hosted at Porteous Studio in collaboration with Izat Arundell.

This residency offers a space for focused, reflective writing on architecture in Scotland.

Participants are invited to explore a topic of their choice — whether critical, personal, historical, or speculative — within the architectural field.

Over the course of one week, selected residents will have the time and space to step away from the demands of daily life and focus on developing their ideas.

Each resident’s writing will be published alongside fellow participants in an annual publication, helping to contribute to a growing body of contemporary architectural thought rooted in Scotland.

02 Mar 2026 Kairos Spring Residency: Reworlding with Tim Waterman

29 April – 5 May, Selgars Mill, Uffculme, Cullompton, Devon

Join us for the first Kairos residency: six days of talks and discussion, walks and contemplation, community-building, rejuvenation and fun.

02 Mar 2026 Call for proposals: Residencies and workshops at The Writers’ Room, Wild Pansy Press

Call PDF: https://writersroom.org.uk/files/downloadable_information_for_Residency_final_text_v3.pdf

05 Mar 2026 Workshop: Editor Wannabes’ Club - Qilu Criticism

Delving into the affective dimension of editorial labour within contemporary art discourse, this workshop is organised around a collective lexicon-making exercise. In response to prompts prepared by Qilu, participants will discuss their experiences of editorial work: Is the impulse to ‘edit’ driven by a sense of dissatisfaction? What makes editing an invigorating process, and at what point does that same energy become exhausting? How could editorial work embrace doubt and uncertainty, when the editorial gesture so often implies the necessity of resolution? What does an alternative form of editing – one that allows space for uncertainty, questions, vulnerability, and differences – look like?

Through these conversations, participants will identify key terms and write up lexical entries that capture the nuances of editorial practice. These entries will form the foundation of the Lexicon of Editor Wannabes. Initial entries will be drafted during the workshop, and the project will continue through a process of collective writing, editing, and revision in the following weeks, culminating in a work-in-progress presentation in May.

06 Mar 2026 London Festival of Architecture - Open call for Festival activity

Submission fee is waived for activities proposed by individuals.

https://www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/2026-key-dates/

06 Mar 2026 The Hajar Book of Waves - Hajar Press

We’re seeking submissions from writers of colour of short pieces of writing for The Hajar Book of Waves, the second volume in our elements anthology series.

This Water-themed book will explore the waves that carry, connect, renew and shape us: the ebb and flow of history in a non-linear continuum, a call-and-response between the past and the future; the gushing surges of empathy and feeling that move and enliven us; the fluid psycho-spiritual processes that help us adapt and change; the cycles of action and reflection that keep our organising alive; the mass movement of people in protest and migration; and the irrepressible force of the cosmos guiding the earthly tide. We’re interested in writing that engages with waves as both material and metaphor—flowing and flooding, soothing and overwhelming, refreshing and eroding; the rhythms and repetitions of perpetual back-and-forth motion; the power of water refusing to stagnate.

We’re now open for submissions of short stories, poetry, essays and everything in between showing radical imagination, creative experimentation and sharp political engagement with the world around us.

08 Mar 2026 Call for participants for the Emerging Critics Project 2026: Queer East, London

We are excited to announce that Queer East Emerging Critics Project will return this April and May with six participants, in collaboration with Little White Lies. The project is aimed at emerging writers of all ages who have published no more than four articles on film or the arts in print or online media outlets, excluding self-publishing.

16 Mar 2026 Grant: Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship 2026 (US citizens/residents only)

NB: US citizens/residents only

This fellowship is for arts writers, defined as journalists, critics, and cultural commentators who analyze, contextualize, and interpret the arts for public audiences. Arts writing includes criticism, reviews, essays, opinion pieces, and other forms of nonfiction writing about art, artists, cultural institutions, and creative movements.

Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowships will be awarded to two (2) emerging writers of color, each of whom receive a $5,000 award to be spent over a six-month period.

The awards are unrestricted. Funds may be used for any purpose that helps the fellows advance their careers, including paying themselves to write.

17 Mar 2026 Scholarship: The Albert Dawson Educational Trust RCA MRes Scholarship

18 Mar 2026 Community Author role - Museum of the Home, Hoxton, London

Paid opportunity

Project: to co-create a framework with the Museum for object disposals from areas of the Museum’s collection and apply this framework in community group sessions. Why: The Museum wants to be more collaborative in how we approach the management and care of the collection. Who are the Community Authors: People with knowledge, passion and interest in East London with different skills and experiences from Museum staff.

  • Money: we will offer £75 for every session you attend
  • How often: The meetings will take place during the day on weekdays (meeting approximately 14 times over one year).
  • Opportunities: to work with the Museum’s collections, to change how we approach disposals, and to collaborate with community groups Outcome: To co-create a blueprint for disposals and action the blueprint in community rationalisation sessions. This framework will become part of the Museum’s policies.

23 Mar 2026 Funding: SURF doctoral funding - Keele University (UK)

Sustainable Rural Futures - Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarships Programme

23 Mar 2026 Funding: Urban Urgencies, USF (Urban Studies Foundation)

Up to 6 grants of up to £35,000 each

The Urban Studies Foundation (USF) is pleased to launch a new research funding initiative to seed-fund collaborative primary research proposals that engage with the theme Urban Urgencies. Up to six innovative projects will be awarded up to GBP £35,000 each. Project activities should begin within nine months of the application deadline, and are expected to last up to eighteen months. All proposals should be clearly situated and relevant to the broader academic field of urban studies, and their contribution to scholarly debate and dialogue in this field should be compelling and timely. Proposals must also be based upon an active partnership with at least one non-academic organisation.

26 Mar 2026 2026 AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Studentships, for October 2026 start

30 Mar 2026 Cody Dock - Cabinet of Curiosity No.3 Artist Commission

We are looking for an artist, collective or group to produce a site-specific, public artwork for the final piece in our series of ‘Cabinets of Curiosity.’

31 Mar 2026 Open City Documentary Festival Fellowship Programme 2026

13 April–17 April 2026, across London

The Fellowship Programme is a daily programme of free screenings and in-depth conversations with festival filmmakers that will take place as part of Open City Documentary Festival 2026.

The programme will run from Monday 13th April to Friday 17th April, between 11am – 2pm at Close-Up Cinema. Conversations will be hosted by tutors from the Documentary & Ethnographic Film MA (UCL). Successful applicants will receive

  • Access to daily screenings and in-depth conversations with filmmakers, running from Monday 13th April to Friday 17th April at Close-Up Cinema
  • A Student Pass, allowing access to Open City Documentary Festival’s programme of talks, performances and workshops held at the Rich Mix (The Studio).
  • A certificate of completion, handed out at the final screening on Friday 17th of April.

06 Apr 2026 Call for PhD proposals on Architecture Curation and Culture & History and Decarbonisation, TU Eindhoven

06 Apr 2026 Residency: Ecologies of Migration - Forgan Arts Centre, Fife, Scotland

There are two residency opportunities available, each taking place flexibly over 35 days across a season. One residency will span Summer (May 2026 – September 2026) and one will span Winter (October 2026 – March 2027).

Information pack: https://www.forganartscentre.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/FAC-Ecologies-of-Migration-Residency-Pack.pdf

20 Apr 2026 Assemble - North East fellowship open call

Open to North East of England-based practitioners, 12 months, June 2026–June 2027 £7,740 fee; £5,280 production budget

D6 is looking to host a Fellowship open to Artists, Curators and cultural practitioners with lived experience of enforced migration, displacement or exile. This is open to practitioners based in the North East of England, seeking to (re)build their international curatorial practice and networks.

Funded by the Arts Council England, this opportunity enables a UK artist to join a Europe-wide cohort of artists and partners.

The ASSEMBLE Fellowship in the UK is one of four taking place across the programme. Other ASSEMBLE Fellows will be based in Cyprus, Spain and Ukraine.

Over 12 months, each Fellow will produce a new curatorial project responding to climate emergency with the option to consider how it intersects with conflict, displacement and ecological decline.

The Fellows will also engage in an international programme of activities offering immersive experiences for new knowledge and best practice to be shared, including:

– three curatorial labs taking place in Cyprus, Spain and a hybrid lab from Ukraine; – one group residency in the UK; – an international conference in Morocco; – a digital exhibition promoting the three curatorial projects.

30 Apr 2026 The Juan Facundo Riaño Essay Medal

To encourage emerging scholars that are based in the UK, ARTES, in collaboration with the Embassy of Spain, awards an annual essay medal to the author of the best art-historical essay or study on a Hispanic theme, which must be submitted in competition and judged by a reading Sub-Committee. The medal is named after Juan Facundo Riaño (1829-1901), the distinguished art historian who was partly responsible for a growing interest in Spanish culture in late nineteenth-century Britain. The winner is also awarded a cash prize of £400, and the runner-up is awarded a certificate and prize of £100 – both prizes are generously sponsored by the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Embassy of Spain. Prize-winners also receive a year’s free membership to ARTES, and the winning essays are considered for publication in the annual visual arts issue of Hispanic Research Journal. See the information about eligibility and rules of competition. The deadline is 30th April 2026, and we aim to reach a decision by 31st May.

30 Apr 2026 Funding: ARTES CEEH Scholarships

ARTES, the UK’s Iberian and Latin American Visual Culture Group Various: travel scholarships; £3000 scholarship for PhD students at UK universities; £3000 scholarship for PhD students or post-doctoral scholars who wish to conduct research in the UK.

Thanks to the generous support of CEEH (Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica https://www.ceeh.es/), ARTES awards a number of scholarships to students working on any aspect of Spanish visual culture before 1900. The deadline for all applications is 30th April 2026 and the Scholarship Committee will inform successful applicants by 31st May. Scholarship winners are normally invited to an awards ceremony at the ARTES AGM in June.

01 May 2026 Funding: Anna Polke Foundation Research Scholarships

Two scholarships of €5,000 each available.

The Anna Polke Foundation is pleased to announce the availability of two scholarships of €5,000 each. Supported research projects include those by scholars in the field of art history or related disciplines that reevaluate aspects of Sigmar Polke’s oeuvre from a relevant contemporary perspective.

04 May 2026 Error 417 – Project funding (Error 406)

Error 417 Expectation Failed is looking for projects that reject the longing for a mythic “old internet” and confront the politics of net nostalgia head-on. The internet is broken, but was it ever whole? We invite artists, curators and collectives from around the world to propose projects that take a clear-eyed view of the past, while exploring how internet histories can open pathways toward more equitable futures. This open call asks: what protocols, networks, archives and shared conditions are needed to build the internet we actually want? Respond to netstalgia with error 406 not acceptable.

The funding program Error 406 Not Acceptable supports open processes and risky art projects through an annual open call. Each edition highlights a different urgent topic, setting the focus on a condition that is Not Acceptable.

The call for projects is aimed at artists worldwide, collectives, curators, arts initiatives, exhibition spaces, online platforms, and developers of software and hardware — basically anyone exploring the possibilities of contemporary, networked technologies as art and their significance for society.

04 May 2026 Experimental Fellowship 2026 - Experimental Foundation + Bauhaus Earth

The Experimental Fellowship with Bauhaus Earth supports emerging international practitioners and cross-disciplinary teams developing regenerative, circular, and climate-conscious solutions, aiming to contribute to a transformative shift in the building sector.

The Fellowship focuses on practice-based research, regenerative material practices, and turning experimentation into actionable, sustainable architecture solutions. Fellows work with the Experimental Foundation and Bauhaus Earth teams to develop prototypes, test materials, and contribute to wider systemic change in the built environment.

Fellows receive financial support, mentorship, technical guidance, and access to a global network of research and industry partners. Funding includes a monthly stipend plus project-related costs up to €30,000.

10 May 2026 Funding: Imagination Practice Fund

~16 projects, up to £3000

The Imagination Practice Fund 2026 offers up to £3,000 in funding for practitioners using collective imagination to drive social change, making it a valuable opportunity for creatives, community leaders, and innovators seeking to challenge dominant narratives and build more equitable futures. Designed for individuals and groups working at the intersection of creativity, community, and systems change, this fund supports projects that use imagination as a tool for transformation.

15 May 2026 Funding: LRG (Landscape Research Group) Research Fund 2026

A total of £15,000 is available for the 2026 Research Fund. Applicants may request between £1,000 and £5,000.

The Research Fund supports innovative projects that deepen understanding of landscape and contribute to more equitable, sustainable relationships between people, place and environment.

This year, the Research Fund invites proposals that develop interdisciplinary, innovative, and methodologically advanced approaches to understanding landscape change across scales, ranging from planetary systems to intimate, lived environments, encompassing humans, non-humans, and more-than-human relations in more equitable ways.

16 May 2026 Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge, UK

The annual Cavendish Arts Science Fellowship is delivered in partnership with Girton College thanks to the vision and generous support of Una Ryan. The Fellowship supports the Cavendish Arts Science ethos of experimenting, decentring and re-imagining. It is designed for artists to develop thought-provoking ideas through engagement with physicists and those in other fields, and to experiment with new approaches to their practice that are transformative and push boundaries.

The one-year Fellowship will begin in October 2026 and end in October 2027. It includes a residency period in Cambridge, typically of at least six months up to one year. Exact dates of the residency period are flexible and will be agreed with the selected artist.

The Fellowship is financially supported:

  • A stipend of 10,000 GBP(£) will be paid to the successful candidate. This amount includes all taxes and is a contribution towards the artist’s living costs and expenses
  • Rent-free accommodation and meals will be provided at Girton College during the residency period in Cambridge
  • A production budget of 10,000 GBP(£) will be made available to support the development of new work
  • A travel budget of up to 3,000 GBP(£) depending on where the artist is based, will be available to support the cost of travel to/from Cambridge during the Fellowship

24 May 2026 Mozilla Festival - Call for Proposals

Recinte Fabra i Coats, Barcelona, Spain. 28–30 October

This year’s theme is Wilding—It is a provocation: what happens when we loosen rigid systems and create the conditions for communities and technologies to evolve collectively, naturally, intuitively?

Inspired by ecological practices of rewilding, where gardens and forests are left to regenerate through their own intelligence, this theme explores what it means to let our digital worlds grow wilder, more diverse, and more alive. It means community-owned mesh networks, federated platforms, open protocols, community archives and tools built on transparency, trust and mutual flourishing.

We are inviting you to take this theme and submit a proposal for a session or experience that shows how your work can help us all embrace Wilding—to restore balance, and cultivate infrastructures rooted in care, mutuality, and collective action.

We’re looking for submissions across 8 unique community tracks, from builders, technologists, artists and community organizers, all inspired by the theme: Wilding.

26 May 2026 CRASSH Summer Research Placement

Help us put together a history of how and why CRASSH was founded 25 years ago, its evolution, and how it has impacted research at Cambridge and beyond.

We are looking for a PhD student or a postdoc to lead this project, which will involve conducting informal interviews with a range of people who have interacted with CRASSH over the years, hunting down important information in School and University records, and drafting a narrative of around 1500-2000 words.

Training in historical methods and/or journalistic experience may be an advantage, but we will consider all applicants who can persuade us that they have excellent writing skills, an eye for detail, and the confidence to interview very senior figures in and beyond the University.

You will need to work independently but in consultation with the management team at CRASSH.

01 Jun 2026 Funded PhD project: Critical Heritage Stories, Communities, and Technologies: Eastney Engine Houses and the Past, Present, and Future of Industrial Heritage Museums

October 2026 start, Portsmouth City Council and the University of Southampton

The Portsmouth City Council and the University of Southampton are pleased to announce the availability of a fully funded Collaborative doctoral studentship starting 1 October 2026 under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme.

This practice-based research project will examine the past, present, and future of industrial heritage museums through a case study of Eastney Engine Houses, in dialogue with Portsmouth Museums’ local and social history collections.

This project will be jointly supervised by Bruce Doswell (Eastney Engineer) and Katy Ball (Curator of Social History), Portsmouth City Council, and Dr Megen de Bruin-Molé, Dr Alexandra Anikina, and Dr Dimitra Gkitsa in the department of Art and Media Technology, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton. The student will be expected to spend time at both Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, and Portsmouth City Council as well as becoming part of the wider cohort of CDP funded students across the UK. The student will also be embedded in the activity of Critical Infrastructures and Image Politics research group.

02 Jun 2026 Funding: RIBA Research Fund

The fund is here to support independent architectural research at any stage of your career, whether it be in UK practice or academia. It covers critical investigation into a wide range of subject matters relevant to architecture’s advancement, and connected arts and sciences.

We welcome applications to support all research topics as long as the subject matter and final outputs are relevant to the advancement of architecture and associated disciplines and professions. Applications are welcome from individuals or teams from architectural practices and academia at any stage of their research careers.

07 Jun 2026 Residency: Goethe Institut - FILE NOT FOUND

Archives, as repositories of cultural memory and knowledge, are increasingly under pressure in many countries due to populist and extremist policies. Content that challenges the narratives of these policies has been censored, reinterpreted, or deleted in some regions.

FILE NOT FOUND fosters a dialogue between various international archives, some already affected by this pressure, others operating in a grey area, and some that still feel safe.

As Germany’s international cultural institute, the Goethe‑Institut is committed to protecting cultural expression and enabling open, democratic discourse. FILE NOT FOUND reflects this mission by bringing together archives from different contexts to share experiences, raise awareness of threats to cultural memory, and jointly strengthen their resilience.

07 Jun 2026 Residency: The Giancarlo DiTrapano Foundation for Literature & the Arts

NB: Submission fee applies ($20.50)

Our residencies are open to writers, translators, musicians, artists (working in all mediums), actors, directors, dancers, etc., from around the world—anyone who is looking for uninterrupted time to create new creative work.

All residencies are fully funded, which means we pay for airfare and full room and board at our 17th-century villa and cultural center in Sezze Romano, Italy. We are currently offering residencies for two weeks each in the spring and fall.

Applications for our Fall 2026 residency are open.

The Fall 2026 residency will take place from September 29 to October 13, 2026. The cohort will consist of 4 to 5 creative residents.

15 Jun 2026 Funding: Matthew Good Foundation Grants for Good

The Grants for Good Fund awards £60,000 of small charity funding annually between twenty non-profit organisations. The applications cycle runs quarterly, meaning every three months, we will share £15,000 between five shortlisted projects.

Grants for Good is funded by the John Good Group and is designed to direct funding only to small and growing local charities, voluntary groups or social enterprises that are making a big impact on communities, people or the environment. To be eligible for our small charity funding, applicants must:

  • Be a UK-based local community group, charity, voluntary group or social enterprise
  • Have an annual income of less than £50,000.
  • ⁠Have a bank account in the organisation’s name.

16 Jun 2026 TOKAS (Tokyo Arts and Space) Residencies - Various

Residencies available:

  • International Creator Residency Program For international creators
  • Curator Residency Program For international curators
  • Research Residency Program For international/Japan-based creators

The “International Creator Residency Program” is a 3-month residency program for creators working in the fields of visual arts, design and architecture. We offer financial support to allow creators to develop and present new works and ideas in Tokyo.

The “Curator Residency Program” aims to invite distinguished and highly motivated curators in the fields of curation, art criticism and cultural research from overseas, and offer them opportunities to conduct research in Tokyo with financial support. (For international curators)

The “Research Residency Program” provides opportunities to conduct research on arts and culture in Tokyo, targeting both international and local creators in a wide range of fields.

How to apply: Download the “Outline” and “Application Package” from TOKAS website and apply via the Online Submission Form

29 Jun 2026 Stanley Picker Fellowship in Art & Design

Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University is seeking to appoint two contemporary practitioners to the Stanley Picker Fellowships in Art & Design.

Each Fellowship provides up to £16,000 and valuable access to the extensive material workshops, technical resources and expertise within Kingston School of Art and the wider University, to support a practice-based, innovative research project that will result in an exhibition of international standing at Stanley Picker Gallery.

30 Jun 2026 Forgotten Architecture

Send us a DM if you know: a forgotten or little-known piece of architecture; an architect overlooked by critics and architectural history; an ignored project by a famous architect

The call is open to everyone professionals, researchers, students, photographers, and architecture lovers.

What we ask from you:

  • all the information available (name of the author, location if any, date, etc.)
  • photographs, if you have them
  • a short caption to accompany your post on the F.A. profile

30 Jun 2026 Tractor Beam Issue 6: The Water Issue (Fiction)

For the sixth issue of Tractor Beam, we’re looking for stories about the role of water in soil, growth, land, and ecosystems large and small. We are specifically seeking anti-apocalyptic visions that explore the future of water in farming and food production, island ecologies, hybrid sea-soil technologies, the people who move water and the people water moves. Stories about drought, diaspora, and what gets carried downstream.

Tractor Beam pays $1,000.00 for all accepted submissions. We prefer stories under 6,000 words and comics between 12-16 panels. Submissions close June 30th.

30 Jun 2026 Rotlicht Festival for Analog Photography - Anthropocene: Hybrid Realities

NB: Submission fee applies (€20)

Our main exhibition in 2026 will again take place on the impressive premises of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. On over 1300 m2 we will open the festival with our 20 winners from the Open Call 2026.

The theme of this year’s festival is »Anthropocene: Hybrid Realities« and your submission should be at least marginally related to this theme.

Anthropocene: Hybrid Realities

The Anthropocene – often described as the age of humankind – names an epoch in which human activity decisively shapes the Earth’s ecological and geological systems. Yet this narrative of dominance may itself be a construct.Ideas of control, progress, and technological mastery stand in tension with a world increasingly defined by instability, complexity, and fragility.

Analog photography inherently challenges this paradigm of control. It is grounded in light, chemistry, time, and contingency. Imperfection, material presence, and process are not flaws but fundamental qualities of the medium. With the theme Anthropocene: Hybrid Realities, the festival invites artists to critically and poetically explore the relationship between human, nature, and image — between intervention and dissolution, influence and vulnerability, construction and decay.

Humanity consumes resources as if they were unlimited, reshapes landscapes, replaces ecosystems with artificial environments, and is increasingly described as a geological force in its own right. How can photography respond to this condition? What hybrid realities emerge between the natural and the constructed, the organic and the synthetic, the real and the staged?

We welcome submissions that engage with these tensions and expand the discourse through experimental, critical, and process-oriented approaches in analog photography.

31 Jul 2026 Postdoc: British Council UK 90th Anniversary Fellowship 2027

The British Council celebrated its 90th anniversary in 2024. We are delighted to announce a research partnership between the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh and the British Council.

We are awarding up to two 12-month Fellowships starting in January 2027 – open to postdoctoral researchers based in any ODA-recipient country where the British Council operates (see list of countries on page 139 of their Annual Report or the list below).

Fellows will spend the first ten months of their Fellowships at IASH, followed by up to two months based in their home countries focused on knowledge exchange and dissemination in collaboration with the British Council.

31 Jul 2026 Funding: Hugo Burge Foundation 2026 Grant Programme

Applications opening on 1 June 2026

The Hugo Burge Foundation is a major new arts funding body. In 2025, its first full year, we distributed £400,000 of grant funding to individuals, communities and organisations across the United Kingdom.

Our grant funding is focused on three key areas: Creative Education, Creative Communities, and Creative Individuals.

15 Sep 2026 Paul Mellon Centre funding - Autumn 2026 + Spring 2027

Autumn 2026 deadline: Monday 14 September 2026 (11:59pm BST) Spring 2027 deadline: Monday 18 January 2027 (11:59pm GMT)

For individuals:

  • Research grants
  • Author grants
  • Study support grants
  • Andrew Wyld Research support grants
  • New Narratives Master’s degree scholarship
  • New Narratives Doctoral scholarship
  • New Narratives Early career fellowship
  • Rome Fellowship

Details for individuals: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/grants-and-fellowships/grants-and-funding-individuals

For organisations:

  • Research project grants
  • Exhibition publication grants
  • Event support grants
  • Conservation grants (Technical grant)
  • Digitisation grants (Technical grant)

Details for organisations: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/grants-and-fellowships/grants-organisations

Official announcement post: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/about/news/our-funding-news

18 Jan 2027 Paul Mellon Centre funding - Autumn 2026 + Spring 2027

Autumn 2026 deadline: Monday 14 September 2026 (11:59pm BST) Spring 2027 deadline: Monday 18 January 2027 (11:59pm GMT)

For individuals:

  • Research grants
  • Author grants
  • Study support grants
  • Andrew Wyld Research support grants
  • New Narratives Master’s degree scholarship
  • New Narratives Doctoral scholarship
  • New Narratives Early career fellowship
  • Rome Fellowship

Details for individuals: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/grants-and-fellowships/grants-and-funding-individuals

For organisations:

  • Research project grants
  • Exhibition publication grants
  • Event support grants
  • Conservation grants (Technical grant)
  • Digitisation grants (Technical grant)

Details for organisations: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/grants-and-fellowships/grants-organisations

Official announcement post: https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/about/news/our-funding-news