Application Deadline: 7 October 2025, at 12:00 (UTC)
Applications are now open for the 2026/2027 Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship. The Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship is a partnership between the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and Clore Leadership, offering mid-career professionals in the arts and culture sector an exceptional opportunity to undertake an individually tailored leadership programme in the UK. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office funds up to five international fellows to join a cohort of approximately 20 fellows, from across the UK and internationally,
Clore Fellowships are awarded each year to leaders in areas such as the visual and performing arts, museums, libraries, archives and heritage, film and digital media, and cultural policy and practice.
Programme structure
As a part of Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship, each international fellow will undertake an individually tailored programme based in the UK which will include:
- Two residential leadership courses
- Non-residential skills-based workshops
- A one-day ‘Online Climate Assembly’
- A 360° leadership profile
- A secondment in a UK based cultural organisation (normally in an organisation or field very different to your usual workplace or practice), where you’ll be working on a ‘live’ project set by your host organisation
- Bespoke learning opportunities based on your own research, such as conferences, training courses, study visits, and peer/sector networking
- Focused support from a mentor or coach
- Thought leadership exploration through a written provocation paper
Eligibility
Applications are open to citizens of the following countries:
- Brazil
- China
- Egypt
- India
- Jordan
- Lebanon
- Mexico
- South Africa
To be eligible for a Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship, applicants must:
- Be resident in one of these countries at the point of application.
- Intend to return to the country they were selected from at the end of the period of study.
- Hold a degree that is equivalent to at least a good UK second-class honours degree or have equivalent professional training and/or experience.
- Have completed at least five years’ work, or equivalent, experience.
- Meet the minimum requirements in accordance with the main fellowships scheme.
- Have a good working knowledge of English to be assessed in your application form and if you are invited to interview.
- Not hold British or dual British citizenship.
- Not be an employee, a former employee, or relative* of an employee of His Majesty’s Government, or have been within the last two years from the opening of Chevening applications (including the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, all British Embassies/High Commissions, the Home Office, the Ministry of Defence, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Trade and the UKVI), the British Council, or a sponsoring UK university.
* Note: Immediate relatives are defined as parents or step-parents, siblings or step-siblings, children or step-children, spouse, civil partner or unmarried (where the couple have been in a relationship akin to marriage or civil partnership for at least two years).
Please note that applicants who have previously received financial benefit from a HMG-funded scholarship or fellowship are eligible to apply after a period of five years following the completion of their first HMG funded award. In these cases, applicants will be required to demonstrate their career progression from that point.
Applicants are also advised to review the Clore Leadership key attributes.
Benefits
A Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship includes a set training budget to cover:
- Up to two return economy flights from your home country to the UK to undertake fellowship activities
- Accommodation while in the UK
- Living expenses while in the UK
- A period of secondment for approximately four to six weeks at a cultural institution in the UK
- Individually tailored fellowship learning plan, which may include participation in courses, conferences, and other processional development activities in the UK
- Course and conference fees within the UK
- Training and development costs within the UK
- Travel in the UK
For More Information:
Visit the Official Webpage of the Chevening Clore Leadership Fellowship
