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.
Countriess
0
Fellows
0
Publications
0
Over 100 fellows
The fellowship was excellent – the resources at Ushaw were exceptional and really helpful to my work.
Dr Karly Kehoe
Holland Visiting Fellowship (St Mary ‘s University, Canada)
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)
"The Residential Research Fellowship at Durham University provided me with vital, extended access to important collections that uncovered, and helped explain how and why, Catholic kin networks engaged in settler colonialism and the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved people in a bid to secure their own safety from anti-Catholic legislation. The collections proved that these networks were vast, global, and connected to theological and cultural change brought about by the Catholic Reformation as much by Protestant ones. Most importantly, the advice that I received from staff at Durham and Ushaw College with expert familiarity with these collections meant that I developed...
Dr Helen Kilburn
DRRL Visiting Fellowship (University of Manchester, England)
Durham Barker Fellowship has been an unforgettable experience, from beginning to end. The fellowship enabled me to consult invaluable archival materials in an inspiring environment and to further my research. My work was facilitated by the library staff, who were very kind and helpful throughout my stay. Apart from enabling me to conduct my research project (Monsters on Durham’s Riverbanks: Bertram Colgrave’s Notebooks on OE and ME Poems), the fellowship also gave me the opportunity to meet the other fellows as well as members of Durham University. The exchange of ideas which ensued was incredibly enjoyable and productive.
Ivana Bicak
Barker Visiting Fellowship (Bilkent University, Turkey)
A productive month of research in historic Durham in a collegial environment with scholars whose work informs your own – it doesn’t get better than that!
Carmen Mangion
Barker Visiting Fellowship (University of London, England)
The Barker Visiting Fellowship allowed me to become a temporary member of the vibrant community of Durham University and to extend my network with UK scholars that I am sure will bring fruitful cooperation in the future. From the scientific perspective, it permitted me to boost my progress on my project provisionally titled Uranian Poetics: Girolamo Fracastoro and the Tradition of Medical Scientific Poetry. The core of my activity consisted of the consultation of manuscripts and old printed editions preserved by the Palace Green Library, particularly the texts from the Kellet Collection and the Magby Library. Among the material that...
Enrico Piergiacomi
Barker Visiting Fellowship (Technion University of Haifa (Israel)., Israel)
My month spent in Durham was incredibly rewarding. In addition to having time and resources to complete a major book project about John the Baptist, it was also incredible to investigate the rare books and manuscripts related to this topic that are to be found across the university’s, Ushaw College’s, and the Cathedral’s collections. I was also able to consult the books and papers of my doctoral supervisor when I was a student at Durham University, Prof. James D. G. Dunn, allowing me to complete an essay that he left unfinished when he died.
Dr James McGrath
Barker Visiting Fellowship (Butler University Indianapolis, USA)
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)
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)
The Barker Fellowship at Durham University provided an invaluable space for advancing my research within a dynamic and collegial intellectual community. Following my work on the history of sexual violence, I became increasingly interested in how it intersects with other forms of discrimination—sexual and gender-based, racial, and social—within religious contexts. This led me to explore religious women’s movements and their role in the fight against sexual violence and gender discrimination. During my time at Durham, I deepened my research on the Catholic Women's League of England, which has a particularly rich history in this respect, and its connections with other...
Agnes Desmazieres
Barker Visiting Fellowship (Centre Sèvres-Facultés jésuites de Paris, French)