Our research excellence

Associated projects:

• Artist Boss
• The Glove Network

Read more at the Art and Design research area. 

Read more at the Business and Management research area.

Associated projects:

Love Letters

Read more at the Cultural, Communication Studies and Media Research Area.

Associated projects:

• Attachment Awareness

• Exploring Forests and Outdoor Experiences

• Thinking Doing Talking Science

Read more at the Education Research Area.

Associated projects:

• Ambient Literature
• Landscaping Change
• Living with the Poets Podcast.

Read more at the English Language and Literature Research Area.

Associated projects:

• Bath Spa Observer
• Cork Flood Defences Dispute
• Disrupted Histories, Recovered Pasts
• Dynamic Risk at Fuego Volcano
• Enduring Connections
• Etosha-Kunene Histories
• Future Pasts
• HiFlo-DAT Hazard Database
• Himalayan Flood Reconstruction
• Historical perspectives on wildfires in Ireland
• Pathways to Resilience
• RESPiRES
• The Art of Healing in Kashmir
• The Last Hurrah
• Towards Hydrocitizenship
• Troubled Waters.

Read more at the Geography and Environment Research Area.

Read more at the History Research Area.

Associated projects:

• Beyond East and West
• Mbira Hut
• Series as multipart pieces with regulated changes
• The Last Hurrah
• Word Events: Perspectives on Verbal Notation

Read more at the Music and Performing Arts Research Area.

Applications for the 2025/26 scheme will open on 2 July 2025. The stage 1 funder deadline is 5pm on Wednesday 1 October.

Please carefully check the scheme guidance, eligibility criteria and FAQs before starting to develop an application. As the British Academy do not allow unsuccessful applicants to reapply to this scheme, you should consider whether this is the best time for you to apply.

Those interested in applying must submit an Expression of Interest comprising a short outline proposal and summary CV to researchsupportoffice@bathspa.ac.uk by Monday 4 August 2025. Late submissions will not be considered.

Your proposal should include a one page outline of your proposed research, including fit with research activities within the School and your proposed mentor. Your CV (one page maximum) should include your publications to date along with your academic history, including the date your PhD was awarded. If successful, the Research Support Office will work with you to develop your outline stage application to the funder.

You should make contact with your proposed mentor before you submit your outline and it would be beneficial if they commented on your proposal before submission. If you do not have a mentor in mind, please have a look at our staff research profiles on the Areas of Research Excellence and our staff webpages. You’ll then be able to find staff working in your area of research and make contact with them.

If you have any queries about the Fellowship scheme or the process of selection, please contact the Research Support Office, on researchsupportoffice@bathspa.ac.uk.

The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility.

There are two types of Postdoctoral Fellowships:

1. European Postdoctoral Fellowships – open to researchers moving within Europe or coming to Europe from another part of the world to pursue their research career. These fellowships take place in an EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country and can last between one and two years. Researchers of any nationality can apply.
2. Global Postdoctoral Fellowships – fund the mobility of researchers outside Europe. The fellowship lasts between two to three years, of which the first one to two years will be spent in a non-associated Third Country, followed by a mandatory return phase of one year to an organisation based in an EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country. Only nationals or long-term residents of the EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries can apply.

The next call will open for applications on 9 April 2025. 

Please carefully check the scheme guidance, eligibility criteria and FAQs before starting to develop an application. As the MSCA have resubmission restrictions in place from 2022, you should consider whether this is the best time for you to apply.

Individual researchers submit proposals for funding in liaison with their planned host organisation. Proposals are judged on their research quality, the researcher's future career prospects and the support offered by the host organisation. Applications are submitted jointly by the researcher and the UK academic supervisor. It is essential that you make contact with your supervisor well in advance of the deadline. If you do not have a supervisor in mind, please have a look at our staff research profiles on the Areas of Research Excellence and our staff webpages. You’ll then be able to find staff working in your area of research and make contact with them.

If you are interested in applying for the MSCA PF with Bath Spa University as your host institute, please contact the Research Support Office, on researchsupportoffice@bathspa.ac.uk, at least six weeks before the call deadline.

The International Fellowship Programme, delivered by the British Academy and the Royal Society, enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of fostering long-term international collaborations.

This scheme aims to attract the most promising early career postdoctoral researchers from overseas in the fields of natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities.

The BSU Expression of Interest deadline has now passed for the 2025 call.

We anticipate inviting applications for the 2026 call, subject to confirmation from the British Academy. The information below is based on previous rounds. We anticipate that the scheme will open for applications on the British Academy website in January 2026 and the funder application deadline will be mid-March.

Interested applicants will be asked to submit an outline proposal and short summary CV to the Research Support Office. Your proposal should include a one-page outline of your proposed research, including fit with research activities within the School and your proposed UK academic co-applicant. Your CV (one page maximum) should include your publications to date along with your academic history, including the date your PhD was awarded.

Please carefully check the scheme guidance and eligibility criteria before starting to develop an application. You should make contact with your proposed UK co-applicant before you submit your outline and it would be beneficial if they commented on your proposal before submission.

If you do not have a co-applicant in mind, please have a look at our staff research profiles on the Areas of Research Excellence and our staff webpages. You’ll then be able to find staff working in your area of research and make contact with them prior to submitting an outline proposal.

If you have any queries about the Fellowship scheme or the process of selection, please contact the Research Support Office, on researchsupportoffice@bathspa.ac.uk.