Opportunities
RSS subscribeESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme
Due: this is perpetual, applications may be submitted at any stage
Organisation: Economic and Social Research Council
WWW: www.esrc.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/opportunities/earlycareer/postdocfellowships
description
The fellowships promote excellence in UK social science research capacity. These awards provide a career development opportunity for those at a relatively early stage of their academic career who can demonstrate great potential in social science research. The scheme is also open to those returning to research following a career break.
The scheme is open to all disciplines. However, during 2008 ESRC is specifically encouraging applications in a number of disciplines identified as having particular capacity building difficulties: economics, education, management and business studies, advanced quantitative methods, social work and socio-legal studies. In addition, applications are encouraged in the area of global environmental change.
The awards are designed to enable applicants
- to produce publications in order to help establish a track record in their chosen specialisation and secure opportunities for long term employment in the HEI sector;
- to disseminate their research findings that have come out of previous doctoral work to both academics and non-academic audiences;
- to further improve their research and related skills through additional specialised training; and
- to carry out further limited research based on their PhD work and related work through developing proposals for further funding.
Awards are tenable for one year on a full-time basis (two years in economics) and up to two years on a part-time basis (four years in economics).
ESRC currently expect to support up to 85 PDFs each year.
Applicants should have no more than three years’ active postdoctoral experience when they take up the award. For those who have yet to submit their Ph.D.s, the expectation of submission must be verified by their supervisors at the time of application.
There are no nationality restrictions.
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