The BIAA offers a number of different funding opportunities, grants and awards to support academics at all stages of their career.
Each year the BIAA offers grants of up to 2,000, 5,000, and 10,000 GBP to support UK-based academics to carry out research in Türkiye and the Black Sea region
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The BIAA annually awards research scholarship and research assistant positions to students with a masters degree, and post-doctoral fellowships to recently completed PhD students
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The BIAA offers a number of small awards for UK-based graduate students and academics to visit Türkiye and for graduate students and academics based in Türkiye to visit the UK to carry out research
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The BIAA can host externally funded researchers based at UK higher education institutions and awards honorary fellowships to scholars who have previously collaborated with the Institute
Further informationPlease find below currently open calls for applications with details, eligibility criteria and application instructions for each call.
Please note that BIAA has streamlined its grant giving processes and there will only be one call per financial year. If you would like to apply for BIAA grant funding in 2024/25, please respond to this call. Applicants are also advised to carefully review the Notes to Applicants as these have recently changed.
With the end of the three year term of the current Honorary Treasurer, the British Institute at Ankara (BIAA) seeks to appoint a new Honorary Treasurer to the Council of Management at its next AGM in December 2024.
The BIAA was founded in 1947 and incorporated in the 1956 cultural agreement between the Republic of Türkiye and the United Kingdom. It is internationally renowned for conducting world-class research in Türkiye and the Black Sea region across the humanities and social sciences. One of the British International Research Institutes (BIRI), the BIAA operates offices in London and Ankara with the support of the British Academy and core funding, administered through the Academy, from the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy.
The objectives of the Institute are as follows:
The BIAA is a company limited by guarantee (477436), and a charity registered in England and Wales (313940). The Council of Management, based in the UK, is responsible for the governance of the Institute. It comprises up to fourteen elected Members, including the Honorary Officers who are elected for a period of three years.
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