Apply to be our Digital Research Fellow for 2025-26.

Call open

The National Library of Scotland invites applications for the Fellowship in Digital Research 2025-26.

This Fellowship supports an exciting opportunity for a three-month period of research into any aspect of the Library’s data collections available on the Data Foundry using data science or other digital research methods or techniques.

This year, the Fellowship’s theme relates to Artificial Intelligence/machine learning: what happens at the intersection of cultural heritage and new technologies? What can we learn from applying AI tools to the collections? What efficiencies are generated, what opportunities are created, what risks are formed? How can access to collections be widened, and how can learning about the collections be shared?

As a digital fellowship, tenure of The National Library of Scotland Fellowship in Digital Research does not require residency within the Library: we welcome applications for remote ’residency’; Fellows should visit the Library to carry out engagement activities for some of their tenure, however.