Visiting Fellowship

Visiting Professorships

The College seeks to appoint two Visiting Professorships: one in the Michaelmas Term (October to December 2026) and one in the Lent Term (January to March 2027).

Corpus Christi College has a regular programme for welcoming senior academics (normally at least Readers or Associate Professors or the equivalent) from other universities as short‑term Visiting Professors. Visiting Professorships are ideally suited to senior professors on sabbatical leave from their permanent positions who intend to conduct research in the University of Cambridge or a recognised research establishment in Cambridge. Visiting Professorships may be held for one term only.

The College offers temporary senior membership, generous dining privileges (free of charge) at High Table and the opportunity to engage fully with a small community of Fellows and postgraduate students across the full range of academic disciplines. Visiting Professors are expected and encouraged to take part in the intellectual and social life of the College. At some point in their tenure, Visiting Professors are usually asked to give a short lecture or presentation on their research to a graduate audience;

they should also expect to write a brief piece on their research and time at the College for The Record – the College’s annual alumni magazine.

The College seeks to appoint two Visiting Fellows: one in the Michaelmas Term (October to December 2026) and one in the Lent Term (January to March 2027).

Corpus Christi College has a regular programme for welcoming Visiting Fellows to the College. Visiting Fellowships are open only to early‑career scholars on sabbatical leave from their permanent positions who have had no prior academic experience of Oxford or Cambridge. Early‑career is defined as within seven years of the award of a PhD or six years of a permanent academic appointment, excluding any career break, for example, for family care or health reasons.

A Visiting Fellowship is held for one term only.

The College offers temporary senior membership, generous dining privileges (free of charge) at High Table and the opportunity to engage fully with a small community of Fellows and postgraduate students across the full range of academic disciplines. It also offers free accommodation in a comfortable, modern one‑bedroom flat (suitable for single or double occupancy) at Leckhampton, the College's second site where most of its postgraduates are housed (please note that the flat is not suitable for children).

The College is occasionally able to offer more spacious accommodation dependent on availability. For such accommodation, rent is payable, at reasonable rates. Visiting Fellowships are non‑stipendiary. The tenure of a Visiting Fellowship cannot be extended.

From time to time, Corpus Christi College offers a Visiting Fellowship to scholars who are citizens of the Pacific Island nations and also those resident in the French Pacific territories (i.e. Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia), but normally excluding citizens of USA, New Zealand and Australia. The Fellowship is offered to those who wish to spend up to six weeks in the summer (sometime in late July/August/early September) in Cambridge for academic purposes.

Applicants must be engaged in teaching or research at a University, or at an institution where teaching and/or research is carried out (but not necessarily in the Pacific).

Details of the next competition will be posted here in due course.