Opportunity profile: The British School at Rome

If you need to use the Vatican Library or the Papal university, the British School at Rome can get you in. Penny Sarchet reports on a scheme that offers UK-based academics the chance to access valuable private collections.

The British School at Rome, a leading UK humanities research institute, is offering a series of residential opportunities to scholars working in the UK to visit Rome to study its exceptional historical resources.

The Balsdon, Hugh Last, and Paul Mellon Centre fellowships each offer three-month residencies at the school for senior academics in the fields of archaeology, art history, Italian culture and society, classical antiquity, Anglo-Italian relations and Grand Tour subjects.