Institute of Advanced Study (Durham)

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The Institute of Advanced Study is located in Bishop Cosin's Hall

The Institute of Advanced Study (IAS) is a research centre of Durham University. The IAS has been set up to bring researchers from across the world to collaborate on cutting edge research. The IAS was set up to mark Durham's 175th anniversary and will be housed in the Grade I listed Bishop Cosins Hall on Palace Green, Durham. The Institute accepted its first fellows in January 2006.

1 Facilities and Themes
2 Fellowships
- 2.1 Past Fellows
3 Directorates
4 Advisory Council
5 See Also
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Facilities and Themes

Fellows of the IAS will be able to access all the facilities of the University and will work in one of the University's 27 departments alongside existing scholars. Fellows will also be involved with the colleges by giving and attending various lectures, seminars and formal dinners within the IAS, colleges and departments. The fellows will a dedicated office building, access to the four university libraries, two museums and botanic garden as well as the university's laboratories and research centres.

The research of the IAS is based around research themes across the Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities. The theme of the IAS's research is published a year in advance. A scoping exercise in late 2005 set out the core themes across the three academic strands with the inaugural theme in 2006-2007 was the "Legacy of Darwin". The current research theme is based on Modelling, with 2008-2009 theme on 'Being Human' and 2009-2010 theme examining issues surrounding Water.

[edit] Fellowships

The IAS offers fellowships to UK and international scholars with two different types of fellowships: distinguished and fast-track.

Distinguished Fellowships will be offered to members of Academia who have an international standing and a history of high quality research in their field of study.
Fast track Fellowships will be offered to scholars who are emerging as forerunners in their chosen discipline but who as yet are not of a high international repute.

The Fellowships will each last three months, with ten award each semester. The first semester runs from January to June and the second from September to December.

Accommodation for the fellows will be provide by some of the university's colleges, usually in association with a fellowship offered by the college^[1]:

Collingwood College - Collingwood College Fellowships.
Grey College - Sidney Holgate Research Fellowship, Alan Richards and Isobel Holgate Mathematics Fellowship, Glaxo Smith Kline Fellowship, Dickinson Dees Fellowship, Best Fellowship in Public Understanding of Science and the Winifred Jean Stubbs Fellowship. ^[2]
Hatfield College - Visiting Research Fellowship.
St Aidan's College - St Aidan's College Fellowship
St Chad's College - The Traidcraft Fellowship, Senior Research Fellowships, Durham Cathedral Artist in Residence and The Alan Richardson .Fellowship^[3]
St John’s College - St John's College Fellowship.
St Mary’s College
Trevelyan College - The Trevelyan Fellowship and the Sir William Luce Fellowship in Middle Eastern Studies.
University College - Leonard Slater Fellowship and the Pemberton Fellowship.
Van Mildert College - Arthur Prowse Fellowship & the Arnold Bradshaw Fellowship. ^[4]

[edit] Past Fellows

Prof Jane Buikstra 2006/7
Prof James Moore 2006/7
Prof John Hedley Brooke 2006/7
Prof John Dupré 2006/7
Prof Nancy Cartwright 2007/8
Prof Donald A. MacKenzie 2007/8
Prof David C. Stark 2007/8

[edit] Directorates

The IAS is run by four directors nominally appointed by the Vice-Chancellor of the university. The directors are responsible for the academic calendar and research events of the IAS. Three of the directors are responsible for maintaining links with the IAS and are thus named after the relevant faculty. The present directors are:

Professor Ash Amin - Executive Director
Professor Michael O'Neill - Director for the Arts and Humanities
Professor Susan J Smith - Director for the Social Sciences
Professor James Stirling - Director for the Sciences

[edit] Advisory Council

The advisory council works alongside the directors and meets once a year to develop the academic calendar of the IAS and aid in its promotion through members acting as ambassadors to the IAS and advising on new research themes. The present members of the council are