Apply for Postdoctoral Writing Fellowship Program (Africa and UK)

Articles should be based on PhD research completed within the last two years, at the time of application. Fellows will work independently to deliver the article to one of the BIEA’s journals by the end of the fellowship agreement. They may be based either at home, their own institution, or may make use of the BIEA library in Nairobi. BIEA takes no part in production, proofreading or language checking, which are the responsibility of the authors.

Funding Information

• The writing grant stipend is £1,200 per month for three months, at the end of which the article must be submitted to the relevant journal.
• Applicants must be able to confirm that they are only working a maximum of 15 hours per week in other employment during the time they are receiving the writing grant.

Eligibility Criteria

• You must have completed your PhD and passed your viva before taking up the writing grant.
• You can apply if you are working under an existing part-time contract as long as it specifies not more than 15 hours of work per week. You cannot apply if you have an existing full-time contract, even where the hours of work are less than full-time in practice i.e. if you are paid as a lecturer on a full-time salary you are not eligible unless you take unpaid leave for the duration of the writing consultancy (even if you only lecture for 15 hours per week or less).
• The research upon which your proposed article is based must either have been undertaken in or about one of the eighteen countries stretching from Sudan to Mozambique that are part of Eastern Africa or relate to the people from this region.
• You must be able to provide one academic reference by the submission deadline.
• You must be able to demonstrate that you can complete the article by 31 January 2026.

For more information, visit BIEA.