Welcome to Durham Collections Fellowships
The Call for Applications for the academic year 2026/27 is now closed, applications for the next academic year will open early 2027.
The Durham Centre for Classics Education Research and EngagementS (CERES) brings together interdisciplinary research focused on how classical languages and ancient civilisations are taught and learned. Working across education from primary and secondary schools through to higher and adult/community education, CERES provides a distinctive space for research, collaboration and engagement in Classics education. CERES acts as a forum for knowledge exchange between academic research and charities, subject associations, journalists, policymakers, creative practitioners and teachers.
CERES is delighted to invite applications for its new International Visiting Fellowship Scheme. We are offering two International Visiting Fellowships, each of 2–4 weeks' duration, to be undertaken as one continuous period between October 2027 and July 2028.
The theme for this first round is the teaching and learning of Ancient Greek language in schools and communities. Applicants will have expertise in teaching Ancient Greek language using innovative methods, and/or widening access to Ancient Greek language beyond traditional education settings.
The Fellowship strives to foster collaboration between researchers, teachers, community organisations, cultural institutions and policymakers. Through this work, CERES seeks to advance understanding of how Ancient Greek can contribute to educational opportunity, linguistic knowledge, cultural literacy and public engagement in the twenty-first century.
The aim of the Durham Collections Fellowships is to enable and foster research across the three historic collections of Durham — those held by Durham University, Durham Cathedral and Ushaw Historic House, Chapels and Gardens, all of which have internationally significant collections of books and other materials that deserve to be brought to a wider scholarly and public audience.
In addition to libraries this includes archives, collections of visual and material culture, and architectural assets.
Together these collections contain:
- 450 medieval manuscripts books
- over 130,000 rare and early printed books
- around 6,000 meters/shelves of archives
- 107,000 museum objects and works of art
- Over 40,000 archaeological artefacts
- 9,000 bio-science specimens
The purpose of the Visiting Fellowships is to support research into these globally significant collections.
By bringing together these three collections, the Durham Collections Fellowships intend to foster research on material held at Durham, to create an international fellowship of scholars whose research interests have brought them to us, and to showcase the collections to a wider audience.
Our past fellows
Since 2018 the Durham Collections Fellowships has shared its collections with a global scholarly audience through its fellowships
