AHRC International Placement Scheme for PhD and Early Career Researchers 2026

International Placement Scheme for 2026

 As an Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC DTP student, you are eligible to apply for a funded fellowship at an international institution.

Fellowships are available at:

  • USA: Harry Ransom Center, Huntington Library, Library of Congress, Smithsonian Institution, Yale Centre for British Art
  • Japan: National Institutes for the Humanities (NIHU)
  • China: Shanghai Theatre Academy

For information on the scheme, including eligibility and how to apply, please see the UKRI website. For help and advice on costings and writing your proposal please contact your research office in the first instance, allowing sufficient time for your organisation’s submission process. 

For questions related to this specific funding opportunity please contact enquiries@ahrc.ukri.org

Any queries regarding the system or the submission of applications through the Funding Service should be directed to the helpdesk:

Email: support@funding-service.ukri.org
Phone: 01793 547490

Opening date for applications is 7 January 2026, the final UKRI deadline for applications is 4pm on Thursday 19 March 2026.

Your university will have its own internal deadline ahead of this. Please check below for any institution-specific guidance.

If you will be submitting an application, please could you notify the Humanities Scholarship Officer, by emailing ahrc@admin.ox.ac.uk, by the end of January 2026.

Please also confirm which institution you will be applying to.

To allow sufficient time for the final University approvals process prior to the final deadline of 19 March, please submit your application a week earlier than this, by 12 March 2026.

 

 

If you will be applying, please could you notify the Student Funding and Fee Policy Team by emailing research.council.funding@admin.cam.ac.uk by the end of January 2026 at the latest. 

Please also confirm which institution you will be applying to.

To allow sufficient time for the final University approvals process prior to the final deadline of 19 March, please submit your application two weeks earlier than this, by 5 March 2026.

For further information about applying via the University of Cambridge please see the University of Cambridge's Fees and Funding webpage for OOC DTP Students.

If you will be applying, please could you notify FASS Research and Enterprise Student Support Team by emailing FASS-Research-Student-Support@open.ac.uk by the end of January 2026 at the latest.

To allow sufficient time for the final University approvals process prior to the final deadline of 19 March 2026, we ask that you arrange for your application to be submitted by 6th March 2026.