Dr. Alex Clarke is seeking an unfunded senior fellowship at Cambridge or Oxford to support research into the 1939 Tsingtao events. Accommodation near the universities would make sustained work in their personal archive collections easier and cheaper than repeated hotel stays. In his account of the application, a second edition and book sales count toward selection, while the YouTube channel falls outside the relevant metrics. The sales figure he is trying to reach is about 7,000 copies. The unfunded arrangement he describes provides rooms, breakfast, and dinner for an allotted period, making it useful even without a salary.
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Book sales, fellowships, and access to research collections
An unfunded fellowship could provide accommodation near archival collections, while book sales carry more weight in this application than a YouTube audience.