Global Academic Appointments

International Fellowships, Visiting Posts & Research Residencies

2026 Cambridge Digital Statecraft Academy Fellowship

In 2026 Associate Professor Natalia Grincheva was awarded the prestigious Digital Statecraft Academy Cambridge Fellowship. Hosted by the Digital Statecraft Academy, the fellowship brings together international experts to address the faltering of traditional public institutions in the algorithmic age. It provides an advanced strategic framework to support leaders in building ethical, data-driven public infrastructure and advancing dynamic, adaptive governance.

The Fellowship Programme serves a robust platform to execute the project, Data for Culture | 2030: Designing an Open-Source, Proxy-Driven, AI-assisted Data Model for the UNESCO Culture|2030 Indicators Framework. Developed in close collaboration with UNESCO, this initiative addresses critical structural barriers in global cultural policy, including data fragmentation, severe regional "data vacuums," resource constraints, and Western-centric measurement biases that marginalize local contexts. The project designs a lightweight, scalable, and federated data methodology for the 22 UNESCO Culture | 2030 Indicators. Rather than relying solely on traditional national data collection, the framework leverages publicly accessible, open-source datasets across environmental, socio-economic, and labor domains to act as proxies for cultural activity. By integrating AI-assisted techniques—such as automated data gap imputation, pattern recognition, and correlation analysis—the model can infer missing indicators in data-sparse environments while preserving national data sovereignty through an API-driven architecture.


Integrated video on the right credits: Digital Staecraft Academy Media Crew

International Research Fellowships & Residencies

  1. 01.2026–12.2026 Cambridge Fellow Digital Statecraft Academy, Cambridge, UK
  2. 06.2023–06.2023 Visiting Research Fellow Public Diplomacy Centre, International Studies Graduate School, The Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
  3. 03.2020–05.2020 Oxford Visiting Research Fellow Digital Diplomacy Research Centre, The University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
  4. 06.2019–07.2019 CDMC Award Visiting Fellow Centre for Digital Media Cultures (CDMC), The University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
  5. 06.2017–07.2017 Visiting Research Fellow Centre for Culture, Sport and Events, School of Media, Culture and Society, The University of the West of Scotland, Glasgow, UK
  6. 11.2012–04.2013 Endeavour Graduate Award Scholar Department of Communication, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
  7. 06.2012–10.2012 Graduate Mobility Award Scholar Centre of Public Diplomacy (CPD), The University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
  8. 10.2010–06.2011 City Graduate Award Scholar Department of Cultural & Creative Industries, City, University of London, London, UK

Academic Scholarships

  1. 2010 City Graduate Studentship, City University London, London, UK.
  2. 2010 Concordia University Graduate Fellowship, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
  3. 2007 Fulbright Scholarship, U.S. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Washington DC, USA.

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