Draft:List of institutes for advanced study

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Institutes for advanced study, also known as institutes of advanced study, institutes for advanced studies or institutes of advanced studies, (IASs) are inter-disciplinary research institutes with fellowship programmes for visiting members.[1] They may be independent centres, such as the original Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, US, (1930) or the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in Ireland (1940), or may be part of a university, such as the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (19568) at Bielefeld University in Germany or the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh (1969) in the UK.[1][2]

To be included in this list, consistent with definitions used in the literature and by international networks of IASs, an institute for advanced study should have an external fellowship programme and a focus on inter-disciplinary research.[1][3][4][5] Centres within universities should not concentrate on a particular discipline or support a particular department;[4] institutions within universities that are not autonomous but instead focus on internal research activities or act as umbrella institutions for research centres are not considered to be IASs, even if named as such.[6] Similarly, institutions that focus on policy advice rather than research are considered to be think tanks rather than IASs.[6]

History

The original Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton, US, was inspired by All Souls College, Oxford and the Collège de France in Paris, as well as Humboldt's idea of a research university as embodied in the German universities. Abraham Flexner, the founder of the Princeton institute, had been a postgraduate student at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Berlin from 1907 to 1908, and developed the plans for the institute while visiting All Souls College in 1928.[6][7]

The original IAS was divided into four 'schools', covering mathematics, natural sciences, historical studies and social sciences, each with a permanent academic staff. It became particularly well known for its work in mathematics and theoretical physics, with Albert Einstein being one of the first academics to join the institute.[6]

Another useful ref (journal special edition on IASs):[8]

Times Higher Education article[9]

History of IASH Edinburgh.[10]

Independent institutes

These are institutions that are independent or national institutions and are not part of a university.

Institutes at universities

These are institutions that, as stated in the University-Based Institutes for Advanced Study network membership criteria, are "affiliated with an internationally respected, research active university" and "fulfill a function for the university not restricted to a particular discipline or affiliated with any single department or faculty".[4]

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