The Association of Commonwealth Universities

ACU Titular Fellowships are offered each year in subject areas or fields of activity in which the needs of developing countries are particularly great. Fellows can come from inside or outside the university sector. The Association wishes especially to encourage the movement of staff in both directions between industry/commerce/public service and the universities with a view to forging reciprocally beneficial links. The programme has been devised for people of proven quality at a crucial stage of their career. It is not an immediately post-doctoral or degree-earning scheme; nor will Fellowships be offered simply for the pursuit of personal research. The ACU is especially keen to receive applications from women candidates; and for programmes intended to enhance the status and role of women in its member universities.

The purpose of the awards is to enable the universities of the Commonwealth, working together through their Association, to develop the human resources of their institutions and countries, and to do so through the interchange of people, knowledge, skills and technologies.

Titular Fellowships are open generally to the academic and administrative staff, or the nominees, of universities in membership of ACU or of Commonwealth inter-university organisations.  Preference will be given to workers in the following priority subject areas: agriculture, forestry and food sciences, biotechnology, development strategies, earth and marine sciences, engineering, health and related social sciences, information technology, management for change, professional education and training, social and cultural development and university development and management.

17 May 2013

https://www.acu.ac.uk/membership/grants-awards/titular-fellowships/

Fellowship

Applicants must:

• be on the staff of, or a nominee of, a university in membership of ACU or of a Commonwealth inter-university organisation; or
• be working in industry, commerce or public service in a Commonwealth country
• be of proven high ability
• submit an acceptable programme of work outlining its purposes and scope and the benefits which it is expected to bring to the country, the university and the individual.

Up to £5,000 according to the actual programme, and intended to cover:

• international return airfare at the lowest available economy class rate and by the most direct route
• ground travel to home airport and from airport abroad to final destination
• medical insurance
• local travel abroad
• board and lodging fees (where the approved programme includes a formal training programme)