Summer Visitors - Centre for Research in the Arts Social Sciences and Humanities
Summer Visitors supports independent researchers with desk space and access to Cambridge libraries and collections for self-funded summer visits focused on pursuing their own research.
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Funder: Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Due Dates: February 3, 2027, 17:00 UTC (Application) | February 10, 2027, 17:00 UTC (Reference)
Funding Amounts: Self-funded visits of two to three months; visitor fees include £90 per week outside term-time, plus 20% VAT
Summary: Summer Visitors offers desk space and access to Cambridge libraries and collections for researchers pursuing independent summer research.
Key Information: Visitors must arrive by mid-June; places are subject to desk availability, and academic supervision is not provided.
Description
The Summer Visitors programme at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) provides a setting for independent research. Visitors can use desk space at CRASSH and access the University’s libraries and other collections. The programme is self-funded and does not provide academic supervision. CRASSH values precision, originality, independent intellectual judgement and critical engagement in proposed research.
Summer visits last two to three months. July and August are vacation periods in Cambridge, with relatively few CRASSH events and more limited opportunities for interaction because many academic staff are away. Summer Visitors are not expected to lead seminars, as the CRASSH seminar series does not run during the summer.
