The Institute proudly announces the launch of a new Fellowship for 2024 in partnership with National Museums Scotland. The IASH-National Museums Scotland Fellowship offers postdoctoral scholars the opportunity to carry out research based on specific collections held at the National Museum of Scotland for up to 10 months.

The deadline for IASH Fellowships aimed at mid-career and senior scholars is on Friday 23 February at 17:00 GMT. For visits between August 2024 and July 2025, IASH must receive your application by that date for the following funded programmes:

African Fellowships for research in health informatics, rangeland management, inequality studies and digital innovation, along with environmental humanities and medical humanities; available only for researchers based at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Professor Daniela Casale from the University of the Witwatersrand has been appointed as the 1500th Fellow at the Institute. Daniela is a development economist with over twenty years’ experience in the field of feminist economics specifically. Her IASH project as an African Fellow explores the gendered impact of the COVID-19 crisis in the labour market and the home in South Africa, and she is visiting Edinburgh from December 2023 to February 2024.

We are saddened to hear of the death of Oliver Emanuel. He was an internationally award-winning playwright who wrote over thirty plays for both stage and radio. His theatre works include The 306: Trilogy – Dawn, Day & Dusk, Dragon, The Monstrous Heart, The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, and the acclaimed Flight.

The full recording of Professor Earl Lewis' superb Fulbright Distinguished Lecture from November 2023 is available now on the University of Edinburgh YouTube channel. The recording also includes the lively question-and-answer session that followed the lecture, and is fully subtitled throughout, along with an embedded transcript.