Visiting Fellowships Scheme

The Department for Continuing Education has offered a Visiting Fellowship scheme for one or two terms since 2023. Contributions during the period of the Fellowship could include collaborating with colleagues on pedagogic research, giving a lecture or series of lectures, or attending and leading seminars in the Department.

Visiting Fellowships are aimed at individuals who are in a position to take advantage of the academic opportunities provided by the Department and Oxford University, and who can add something distinctive to our rich academic environment

It is also our hope and expectation that the Visiting Fellow will, where appropriate, support the development of mutually beneficial partnership with their home institution.

We are interested in applications from a broad range of subjects or fields. If there is a cross-disciplinary element to the Visiting Fellow’s work, the Department will seek out opportunities to support engagement with others across the University.

We would expect the Visiting Fellow to deliver one or more lectures on their research and/or practice at the Department’s Lifelong Learning Research Forum, which we will soon be launching. We would also expect them to facilitate a workshop or seminar on a topic of their choice within the broad field of lifelong learning pedagogies and student experience.

There is no stipend for this post, but Visiting Fellows will be entitled to free accommodation and breakfast at the Department in central Oxford for the duration of their stay.

Applications for Visiting Fellowships will reopen in 2027 as the available placements for the academic years 2025/26 and 2026/27 are now full.