The Schweitzer Fellowship

The Schweitzer Fellowship provides a unique platform for scholars to advance their work in environmental ethics while engaging with the rich academic community at Cambridge. The position includes residency at Peterhouse during the Michaelmas term (October-December).

The Fellowship offers:

- A research associateship at Peterhouse.

- Accommodation and full dining rights in college.

- Membership of the Senior Common Room.

- Access to all University of Cambridge amenities.

Each year, the successful candidate is invited to:

1. Pursue independent research.

2. Deliver a public lecture at Peterhouse.

3. Attend an environmental ethics conference held at the college in late November.

4. Present a brief paper at the conference, highlighting their ongoing research at Peterhouse.

Further details of the application process can be found here.

This year's Schweitzer Fellowship has been awarded to Stephen M. Gardiner, Professor of Philosophy and Ben Rabinowitz Endowed Professor of the Human Dimensions of the Environment at the University of Washington, Seattle. His work centres on global environmental problems, future generations, and virtue ethics. He is the author of A Perfect Moral Storm (Oxford, 2011), co‑author of Debating Climate Ethics (Oxford, 2016) and Dialogues on Climate Justice (Routledge, 2023), and editor of Virtue Ethics, Old and New (Cornell, 2005) and The Oxford Handbook of Intergenerational Ethics (Oxford, 2025). He has published over fifty papers in leading journals including Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, Climatic Change, Environmental Ethics, and The Journal of Political Philosophy.