UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities: Honours, Masters and Doctoral Fellowships
The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) invites applications for Honours, Masters and Doctoral awards in 2025, convened under the auspices of the UK-SA Bilateral Chair in the Digital Humanities.
Application Deadline: 26 February 2025
Honours awardees must already be registered at UWC. Masters and Doctoral awardees must either be registered or eligible to register in 2025 at UWC. Students from designated groups are encouraged to apply.
In this round, the CHR will award up to six Honours, six Masters, and six Doctoral fellowships. Successful applicants will work alongside a team of leading researchers at the CHR and its partner institutions in understanding how a new phase in the co-evolution of the human and technology rescripts the meaning of aesthetics, race, ecology, and labour as traditional concerns of humanistic study.
The position provides for residential fellowships at the CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab, a dedicated humanities facility of the University of the Western Cape in Woodstock, Cape Town. The lab offers a supportive environment for focused study and collaborative research with sound, film, and kinaesthetic arts, and humanistic and social science researchers in the CHR. It hosts an expansive network of local and international researchers working on topics related to the social, political, aesthetic, and subjective consequences of the expansion in technological objects. The awards are conceived to enable postgraduate students to enter the space of digital humanities with a view of developing expertise in the field while shaping an inquiry across the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.
Awardees will become fellows of the CHR linked to the Chair in Digital Humanities. Fellows are required to participate in an advanced studies seminar and an annual workshop with leading scholars from around the world. They are also required to participate in the CHR’s annual Winter School, the Humanities in Session research seminar, reading groups and publication workshops.
