St Edmund’s College is delighted to announce the establishment of a major new academic position: The Notre Dame – St Edmund’s Junior Research Fellowship in Global Catholicism.
Established through the dynamic partnership between St Edmund’s College and the University of Notre Dame (USA), this prestigious Fellowship will serve as an intellectual bridge between the two institutions. It is designed to advance the work of the Von Hügel Institute for Critical Catholic Inquiry (VHI) at St Edmund’s alongside Notre Dame’s Global Catholic Research Initiative.
About the Fellowship
The Notre Dame – St Edmund’s Junior Research Fellowship is a three-year, stipendiary postdoctoral post hosted at St Edmund’s College. Starting on 1 October 2027, it is open to early-career scholars who have recently completed a PhD (normally within the last three years) or expect to hold a PhD by the commencement of the role.
Eligible fields include English, History, History of Art, Modern Languages, Philosophy, and Theology. Interdisciplinary proposals are encouraged, including those that bring these humanistic disciplines into dialogue with the social sciences.
Fellows will undertake ambitious, independent research into Global Catholicism broadly defined as the study of how Catholics, Catholic institutions, and the expressions of Catholic life circulate across regions, nations, and cultures.
Global Exchange and Academic Impact
In addition to conducting research in Cambridge, the appointed Fellow will be encouraged to spend time at the University of Notre Dame’s main campus in the United States and/or its global locations outside of Cambridge’s Full Term, with travel costs covered.
Master of St Edmund’s College, Professor Chris Young, said,
The College is delighted to partner with the University of Notre Dame in this important new initiative. At a time in which the encounter between Catholic thought and the secular academy is arguably more important than ever, this new JRF further strengthens our ability to support outstanding research in the humanities and to advance scholarship on Catholicism.
He further added,
Thanks to the collaboration between our Von Hügel Institute and Notre Dame’s Global Catholic Research Initiative, we are thus able to renew our commitment to supporting academic work that can contribute to the mobilisation of hope in our time.
Applications and Key Dates
Applications for the Notre Dame – St Edmund’s Junior Research Fellowship in Global Catholicism are now open.
- Eligibility: Early-career researchers with a PhD awarded no earlier than 3 years prior to application (or near-completion/defended prior to 1 October 2027) in relevant humanistic or interdisciplinary fields.
- Term and remuneration: 3 years starting 1 October 2027, with an annual starting salary of £45,348, College dining rights, and election to a Title B Research Fellowship on the College’s Governing Body.
- Teaching: Opportunity to contribute up to 80 hours of undergraduate and postgraduate supervision per year.
- Deadline: Monday 14 December 2026 at 12pm midday (UK local time).
- Interviews: May 2027.
