North America

Further information on the Birmingham International Engagement Fund can be found at: Funding Opportunities (birmingham.ac.uk) 

Details of the BIRMAC Seed Fund will be released shortly for 2025.

Please see - BRIDGE Brazil Fellowship in Global South Development - University of Birmingham (contensis.com)

Please see - Global South Fellowship Program - University of Birmingham (contensis.com)

Details of the BRIDGE Seed fund 2025 will be released shortly. 

The Fulbright Commission was established in 1948 to foster mutual educational understanding between the US and the UK through academic exchange. Today, the Fulbright Program operates globally with the assistance of binational commissions and foundations in 49 countries, and US embassies in more than 100 other countries. The University of Birmingham is proud to participate in many of the available schemes that Fulbright has to offer.

Each academic year the University of Birmingham hosts a Fulbright Distinguished Chair, the most prestigious Fulbright award. This generous six-month secondment enables a prominent US professor to be based at the University of Birmingham, with access to all the University’s research collections, and will provide an opportunity to undertake research and build links in the UK.

For further information regarding the Fulbright Distinguished Chair Award, please visit the Fulbright website. 

Previous Recipients

“Everyone should have a Fulbright experience. The world would undoubtedly be a better and more tolerant place if they did. My time in the UK transformed my professional and personal life. I am deeply grateful for having had the opportunity.”

- Professor Donald Behringer, Fulbright US Scholar, 2015-16

The University also offers a Fulbright-University of Birmingham Scholar award annually, whereby a researcher based at a US institution may visit the University of Birmingham for a period of 3–9 months to conduct research in any subject.

For further information regarding the Fulbright Scholarships at the University of Birmingham, please see the Fulbright website. 

We are also happy to host holders of Fulbright Scholar Awards (all disciplines) who wish to conduct research in the conducive environment of the University and its campus.

Previous Recipients 

Alumni Spotlight

“I can't imagine a more supportive and professional environment than the one I had at the University of Birmingham's Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology. I have to believe this is exactly what Senator Fulbright envisioned when he imagined a way to create cultural and intellectual experiences between nations through universities."

- Dr Charles Gallagher, LaSalle University. Fulbright US Scholar to the University of Birmingham, 2016-17

Marshall Scholarships finance young Americans of high ability to study for a degree in the United Kingdom. Up to fifty Scholars are selected each year to study at graduate level at an UK institution in any field of study.

At the University of Birmingham we are committed to supporting and growing academic engagement with the US as one of our key strategic international territories. We offer a range of fellowship opportunities for US students and faculty to come to the University of Birmingham and gain valuable transatlantic experience. Please see our Postgraduate Funding database.