Fellows Around the World
The Durham Collections Fellowship programme has transformed from a regional initiative into a truly global network.
Our partnerships now span six continents, connecting scholars and cultural heritage professionals across more than 26 countries and supporting over 128 international fellows.
This growth has enabled groundbreaking collaborative projects, from digitisation initiatives in South Asia to manuscript preservation in Africa. Fellows return to their home institutions as ambassadors for innovative heritage practices, creating lasting impact that extends far beyond individual fellowships.
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I was successful in obtaining a Barker Fellowship which allowed me to spend a month researching in the fantastic libraries attached to Durham University. A wonderful month of not just intense research but also I was made very welcome by staff and students and was able take full part in university life. A very rewarding experience.
Professor Jack Cunningham
Barker Visiting Fellowship (University of Lincoln, United Kingdom)
My time in Durham as a researcher under the Research Fellowship scheme was both congenial and very fruitful. It provided me with access to significant and essential materials that facilitated my project in transformative ways. The library and archives staff were exemplary in their welcome and generous assistance. Living in Durham for one month was also a most pleasant experience. My thanks to all who support the scheme and I commend it to any who are considering making an application.
Rev Dr Robert Fennell
Barker Visiting Fellowship (Atlantic School of Theology in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
I was awarded the Durham Research Library Fellowship in 2022 for two months (May and June). It was a very rewarding time. The kindness of the staff and the helpfulness of the librarians, who always made me feel at home, allowed me to carry on my research fruitfully at Ushaw College Library. Durham is also a vibrant university town and the Durham Research Library Fellowship provides many opportunities for academic networking and exchange with other Fellows.
Valfredo Maria Rossi
Holland Visiting Fellowship (Georgian University, Italy)
It is difficult to overstate just how transformative my experience as a Fellow was: the unfettered, in situ access to Durham's rare book and archive collections, particularly those relatively untapped at Ushaw College, offered a research opportunity that I may never have again. The incredible productivity that ensued, in which I both collaborated and wrote far more than I had promised, is testament to the inspiring and encouraging environment that these Fellowships foster.
Leah Tether
Holland Visiting Fellowship (University of Bristol, England)
My experience in Durham as the holder of a Barker Visiting Fellowship was stunning. As an historian of the long (perhaps too long?) 18th century, spending a month exploring the vast personal archives of the 2nd and 3rd Earl Grey and of the 1st Earl of Durham was a splendid opportunity. I am currently working on the Duke of Wellington as interim Prime Minister after the dismissal of Melbourne’s government in 1834: my research will benefit largely from my work on the Grey and Lambton papers. The staff at the Special Collections was wonderful: always ready to go the extra...
Ugo Bruschi
Barker Visiting Fellowship (University of Bologna, Italy)
My Durham Research Library Fellowship was a fantastic experience. I collaborated with Durham faculty and other visiting researchers, and made great headway on my research projects in early modern British and Catholic history. In the Ushaw College library, I was able to trace how English Catholics were interpreting and responding to the political and religious conflicts that rent the European continent in the late eighteenth century. I now have invaluable epistolary and other evidence of the English Catholic communities divisions during this exciting time in history.
Dr Shaun Blanchard
DRRL Visiting Fellowship (Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady University, USA)
Durham is a lovely town, and the University is a stimulating place for scholars. I believe that the Fellowship will offer wonderful experiences, both academically and socially, to anyone interested in research and life at an English university.
Shunsuke Katsuta
Sasakawa Visiting Fellowship (University of Tokyo, Japan)
I applied for a Holland Visiting Fellowship, one of the Durham Collections Fellowships, to deepen my research on the communities of Catholic exiles established in Portugal during the Protestant Reformation. The Ushaw Library, managed by Durham University, holds a significant portion of the bibliographical and archival materials produced by the English College in Lisbon — a building that, though no longer in use, still stands in the city.
Maria Luisa Jacquinet
Holland Visiting Fellowship (Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, Portugal)
The Lendrum Priory Visiting Fellowship at Durham University was an exceptionally rewarding experience in every respect. The fellowship provided outstanding conditions for focused research, combined with an intellectually stimulating and genuinely academic environment. Access to outstanding library and special collections, together with the professionalism and generosity of staff and colleagues, greatly enhanced the quality and scope of the work undertaken. Equally valuable was the opportunity to engage fully with the wider academic and collegiate life of Durham, which enriched the fellowship well beyond the strictly research-based dimension. I am deeply grateful for the support received and very much hope to...
Georgina Olivetto
Lendrum Priory Visiting Fellowship (University of Salamanca, Italian)
At Durham, Vanessa consulted Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century oeuvres from the Ushaw and Palace Green libraries on mystical theology and instructions for religious rituals to explore the understanding and rationalization of occult practices at a time of global Counter–reformation. Two of the most influential works in her search were Martín Antoine Del Rio, Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex, quibus continentur accurata curiosarum artium, et vanarum superstitionum confutatio, vtilis theologis, iurisconsultis, medicis, philologis (Moguntiae: Sumptibus Petri Henningii, 1624); and Giovanni Bonna's Rerum liturgicarum libri duo (Augustae Taurinorum: Ex Typographia Regia, 1747). Some of the findings of this research were presented at the ‘Conferencia...
Vanessa Portugal
Barker Visiting Fellowship (University College London, England)