Radical Sabbatical 2027 Residencies

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Closes

November 20, 2026

Effort

About 3 hours

Cost to apply

£3,500

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What it is

Radical Sabbatical is a collaboration between University Collections at University of Birmingham and Eastside Projects offering two six-month residencies centred on research and development. The 2027 programme takes touch as a starting point, exploring haptic and sensory experience, embodied knowledge, disability and accessibility, medical perspectives on touch, digital touch and technology, materiality and craft, memory and emotion, and human and non-human sensory connection. Artists propose collaborations with listed academics and develop work that interrogates and interprets academic research.

Who it is for

Visual artists seeking a six-month research and development residency collaborating with university academics.

Eligibility unconfirmed. Check the residency and nationality rules on the source before applying.

open to all

Where

Birmingham, United Kingdom

When

November 20, 2026

Runs January 1, 2027 to July 31, 2027

What you get

Six-month residency at University of Birmingham with regular one-to-one support from university and arts staff, matched with one or more academics for collaboration, plus £3,500 artist fee and £500 production budget.

What you need to apply

Proposal indicating which academic(s) you would like to work with and how your practice connects to their research

How long it takes

About 3 hours

Medium application. Estimated from the 1 item this application asks for, not from the organisation.

Cost to apply

£3,500

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Go to the application

https://eastsideprojects.org/projects/apply-now-radical-sabbatical-2027-residencies/