{"id":2870,"date":"2026-01-16T09:24:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/?p=2870"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:26:00","slug":"call-for-applications-society-for-caribbean-studies-stuart-hall-archive-project-summer-research-fellowship-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/call-for-applications-society-for-caribbean-studies-stuart-hall-archive-project-summer-research-fellowship-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Society for Caribbean Studies\/Stuart Hall Archive Project Summer Research Fellowship (2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Society for Caribbean Studies\/Stuart Hall Archive Project Summer Research Fellowship (2026)<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Deadline: 9 February 2026<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Society for Caribbean Studies (SCS)\u00a0 and the Stuart Hall Archive Project (SHAP) at the University of Birmingham, UK, invite applications for a short-term graduate research fellow for Summer 2026. The Fellowship will run for 2 weeks, at the end of June, to enable on-site research in Birmingham and participation at the annual SCS conference. <\/span><b>PhD students and early career researchers based in the Caribbean are eligible to apply.<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Stuart Hall Archive Project Overview<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stuart Hall (1932-2014) was a Jamaican-British academic, writer, cultural studies pioneer, public intellectual and teacher who made major interventions in cultural and political life: in theorizing race, class and nationhood; in working to establish the field of Cultural Studies; in his distinctive pedagogical practices and work as a public intellectual; and much more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hall\u2019s papers were deposited at the Cadbury Research Library at Birmingham in 2018 and consist of 102 largely untouched boxes of unpublished reports, essays, scripts and speeches; teaching material; correspondence; editorial material; notes; ephemera and cuttings; and audio recordings and video cassettes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/stuarthallarchive.bham.ac.uk\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stuart Hall Archive Project<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2023-26), based at the University of Birmingham (UK), aims to use these archives as a catalyst to explore Hall\u2019s intellectual and political legacies today and we want to collaborate with graduate fellows to do so. We want to support your projects and interests in the archive\u2013please look at the website to see examples of current and previous projects. Possible areas for research study might include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Using Digital Humanities (or AI) approaches to generate new knowledge from, or reading against, the Black Archive.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Situating Stuart Hall in his geographical (and temporal) contexts, whether Birmingham, the Caribbean, or internationally.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hall\u2019s role in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) movement in the 1950s and 1960s and its relationship to the Civil Rights and decolonisation movements.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under-explored or unknown relationships between Hall and other leading political figures and public intellectuals (such as Walter Rodney, C.L.R. James, or Edward Said).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, graduate fellows may consider a variety of forms and outcomes for their own research, including but not limited to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Community engagement projects to facilitate use of the archives by people and groups outside of the academy<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Development of finding aids, or other resources that enable wider access to the archive<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Visualization of the geographies, temporalities, and relations of Hall to individuals, groups, and institutions as revealed by archive metadata<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A journal article (staff at SHAP are happy to mentor fellows in this area) or thesis work based on research findings<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Qualitative reports on discrete parts of the archive \u2014 specific projects, campaigns or critical work engaged by Hall; particular media holdings in the archive (audio, video, photographic, handwritten material); or, particular media that Hall engaged as evidenced in the archive (public broadcast radio or television; public street campaigning; or contributions to government inquiry or policy)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Fellowship Terms and Expectations<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Fellowship will run for the second half of June 2026 (2 weeks) when the fellow will travel to Birmingham and conduct on-site research at the Cadbury Research Library. The fellow will be expected to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pursue an individual project, but will be part of a \u2018Stuart Hall summer school\u2019 cohort of fellows coming from various institutions from around the world. Numerous events will run as part of the summer school, which the fellow is encouraged to attend. Depending on your interests, SHAP faculty can also facilitate possible visits to other archives and organizations important for Stuart Hall\u2019s legacy, such as the Institute of International Visual Arts (INIVA) and George Padmore Institute in London.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attend and present at the 49th annual Society for Caribbean Studies (SCS) conference, which will take place virtually 1-4 July 2026.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fellowship, which is being offered to a PhD student or early career researcher who is based in the Caribbean,\u00a0 will cover the following costs:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Roundtrip travel to the UK\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2 weeks of international student housing in Birmingham.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A stipend of \u00a31000<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SCS conference registration<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>How to Apply<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To apply, please send the following to <\/span><a href=\"mailto:societyforcaribbeanstudies@gmail.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">societyforcaribbeanstudies@gmail.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by <\/span><b>9 February 2026.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A brief outline of the project you would like to pursue at SHAP. Please review the suggested topics above for ideas. To formulate a viable project, we ask that you consult with this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/calmview.bham.ac.uk\/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&amp;id=XUS121\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">list<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of archive holdings and refer to specific materials you would like to explore in the fellowship proposal.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A 250-word abstract for your SCS conference paper. The call for papers can be found <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/annual-scs-conference\/11th-annual-postgraduate-conference\/call-for-papers-49th-annual-conference-of-the-society-for-caribbean-studies\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your CV<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Official confirmation from your supervisor or a referee that you are eligible for the fellowship. (No reference letter required.)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are prepared to do what is possible and reasonable to address students\u2019 visa and immigration needs in order to ensure that they are able to travel abroad to conduct their research under the appropriate visa status.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Society for Caribbean Studies\/Stuart Hall Archive Project Summer Research Fellowship (2026) Deadline: 9 February 2026 The Society<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/call-for-applications-society-for-caribbean-studies-stuart-hall-archive-project-summer-research-fellowship-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Society for Caribbean Studies\/Stuart Hall Archive Project Summer Research Fellowship (2026)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conference","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2870"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2870\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community-languages.org.uk\/scs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}