Call Title: Global Professorships 2021 Programme

Dear All,
The Office of Research, Innovation and Development (ORID) is pleased to inform the University
community that the British Academy invites applications for its call titled: “Global Professorships
2021 Programme”.
This programme provides mid-career to senior scholars – active in any discipline within the social
sciences and the humanities and based in any country overseas – with the opportunity to work in
the UK for four years.

Eligibility
 Applicants must hold a doctoral degree (or have equivalent research experience).
 Applicants must be available to take up an unpaid leave of absence, a long-term secondment
or employment at an eligible UK institution. If this is unclear from an applicant’s national
setting, then the Academy welcomes communication with applicants prior to applications
being submitted. Eligible institutions include but are not limited to the British International
Research Institutes.
 Awards are only available to individuals, to be held in an institutional context. Co-applicants
are not permitted.
 Awards will not be made retrospectively: this means that the work for which support is
requested must not have commenced before the award is announced. Applications must be
for new research ideas that are coherent on their own and are cutting-edge.
 Applicants are required to provide a formal statement of support from a senior member of
their proposed host institution in the UK (normally expected to be a Pro-Vice-Chancellor or
equivalent, or at minimum Head of Department/Faculty/Institute).
 Applicants are required to nominate one academic referee who is not based at the UK host
institution or at the overseas institution at which the applicant is based at the time of
application and is not involved in the programme of research and other activities submitted
as part of the application. The statement must be provided on letter-headed paper, and
must be signed and dated by the referee.

Amount
Awards are expected to run for four years each from a starting date to be agreed with the British
Academy. The starting date must not be before 1 September 2022 or after 1 February 2023.
The Academy will provide up to £900,000 per award.
Deadline
Application and referee / head of department statements deadline and current UK host
institution approval deadline: Wednesday 27 April 2022, 17:00 BST.
For further details of the call kindly visit https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/global-
professorships/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=fundingcall%20%7C
%20global-professorships%20%7C%20%20%7C%20International&utm_content=International

For research support services, kindly contact us at:

  
College  Contact Address 
College of Humanities  orid-iso@ug.edu.gh 
College of Education  orid-iso@ug.edu.gh 
College of Health Sciences (Korle-Bu campus)  orid-kso@ug.edu.gh 
College of health Sciences (main campus)  orid-nso@ug.edu.gh 
College of Basic and Applied Sciences  orid-paw@ug.edu.gh 
 

Sincerely,  
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Pre & Post Award Services 
Office of Research, Innovation & Development (ORID) 
(Ground Floor, LECIAD Building) 
University of Ghana 
P.O. Box LG 571 
Legon 

Telephone: +233-303-930-436/0302 940532 

IP: 1040/2724/2722/1027 
Website: http://www.orid.ug.edu.gh