These fellowships provide early career researchers with the opportunity to gain experience of research and teaching in a university environment and improve their prospects of obtaining permanent lecturing posts by the end of their award. The primary emphasis is on completion of a significant piece of publishable research. The fellowships provide three years’ salary costs and £6,000 for research expenses. The scheme is costed on a full economic costing basis. Applicants must not yet hold or have held a permanent academic and must be within three years of the award of their doctorate. Applicants must either be British or EEA nationals or have obtained a doctorate from a UK university.
Scheme Opens: 24 August 2016
Deadline for Applicants: 5 October 2016
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This scheme provides up to £10,000 for up to 24 months to support primary research in the humanities and social sciences. Funds may be used to facilitate initial project planning and development; to support the direct costs of research; and to enable the advancement of research through workshops or conferences, or visits by or to partner scholars. Applications for collaborative or individual projects are equally welcome under this scheme. Applications from international groups of scholars are welcome, provided there is a UK-based scholar as lead applicant.
Scheme Opens: 1 September 2016
Deadline for Applicants: 12 October 2016
*Please note that there will also be a second call in spring 2017 opening on the 12th April 2017 with a deadline on 24th May 2017.*
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The ERC Starting Grants scheme supports Principal Investigators at the career stage at which they are starting their own independent research team or programme. The grants operate on a 'bottom-up' basis without predetermined priorities. Funding of up to €1.5m is available for projects of up to 5 years’ duration. The scheme is open to applicants of any nationality who will conduct their research in the EU. Applicants must be within 2 – 7 years of the award of their PhD prior to 1 January 2017.
Deadline: 18 October 2016
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Information day: The UK Research Office are holding an information day for researchers who are interested in applying to the 2017 ERC Starting Grants call. The event will be held on Tuesday 6 September 2016 10.00-1.00 at King’s College London. Further Information and registration form are available here.: https://www.ukro.ac.uk/erc/Pages/events.aspx
The Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies offers one-year Jean Monnet Fellowships (renewable for one more year) to scholars who have obtained their doctorate more than 5 years prior the start of the fellowship, i.e. 1 September 2016 for the academic year 2016/17. The Fellowship programme is open to post-docs, tenure track academics and those wishing to spend their sabbatical at the Robert Schuman Centre. The Centre offers up to 20 Fellowships a year.
Jean Monnet Fellows are selected on the basis of a research proposal and of their CV. The research proposal should fit well with one of the Centre’s main research themes, programmes and projects. The three main research themes of the RSCAS are:
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Integration, Governance and Democracy;
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Regulating Markets and Governing Money; and
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21st Century World Politics and Europe.
More information about the Centre’s research programmes and projects can be found on the RSCAS website. The annual deadline for applications is 25 October.
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Max Weber fellowships are designed for junior post-docs who would like to pursue an academic career, concentrate on their own research and enhance their academic practice in a multidisciplinary environment. Max Weber Fellowships are for 1 or 2 years and are open to candidates who have received a doctorate in the social sciences (economics, law, political science, sociology, history and related fields) within the last 5 years.
The annual deadline is 25 October.
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These fellowships provide funding for up to £50,000 over 3 – 24 months for experienced researchers to conduct a programme of research in any discipline. The funding can be used to cover research expenses over and above normal living costs and/or provide a contribution towards teaching replacement costs.
Deadline: 10 November 2016
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International Academic Fellowships provide established researchers with a concentrated period based in one or more research centres outside the UK. The intention of the scheme is to provide opportunities to develop new knowledge, skills and ideas, and may for example be used for the following:
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observing and learning ground-breaking techniques or practices
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developing new lines of research through overseas collaboration
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making "discipline-hopping excursions" into new areas of research
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developing innovations in teaching
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exchanging ideas
Up to £40,000 is available for a period of three to twelve months. Eligible costs include: reasonable replacement cover whilst the Fellow is overseas; travel to and within the overseas country or countries; a maintenance grant to meet the increased expense of living overseas; and essential research costs.
To be eligible for the scheme applicants have held an established post for at least 3 years.
Deadline: 10 November 2016
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These Fellowships provide teaching relief of one year to enable established scholars to have the time to bring to completion a significant piece of research.The Academy takes no account of an applicant's age or current status (e.g. Professor, Lecturer) in determining eligibility for these awards. Rather, in all cases, award-holders are expected to be able to disseminate the results of their research not only through publications, but also through feeding into their future academic career after the end of the awards. Any field of study in the humanities and social sciences is suitable for support.
The Academy hopes to make eight awards for this call.
Scheme Opens: 12 October 2016
Deadline for Applicants: 16 November 2016
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These awards provide up to three years’ teaching relief to enable the most outstanding established scholars to concentrate on a significant research programme. The fellowships provide a fixed sum of £165,000 to cover teaching replacement; any balance can be used to cover research costs.Emphasis is also placed on the importance of award-holders communicating their plans and results to a broad audience.It is expected that four Research Professorships may be awarded through this call.
*Please note that applicants to the Wolfson Research Professorship scheme will not be able to apply to the BA/Leverhulme Senior Research Fellowship (deadline 16 November 2016)*
Scheme Opens: 28 September 2016
Deadline for Applicants: 23 November 2016
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The updated work programmes for the Societal Challenges pillar under Horizon2020 have now been published and are available on the participant portal. Topics in "Europe in a Changing World" may be of interest, namely "CULT-COOP-02-2017: Improving Mutual Understanding among Europeans by Working through Troubled Pasts".
Opening Date: 4 October 2016
Deadline: 2 February 2017
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*Please note that UK researchers are able to continue to make applications to Horizon 2020 until any withdrawal from the EU is complete*
This scheme supports researchers with 7-12 years’ experience since completion of their PhD to conduct innovative, high-risk projects that open up new directions in their research fields or other areas. The scheme is open to all disciplines and the sole evaluation criterion is the excellence of researcher and research proposal. Funding of up to €2m is available for projects of up to 5 years.
*The UK Research Office will be running an information day on the ERC Consolidator Grants scheme in London – details to be announced shortly here.
Opening Date: 20 October 2016
Deadline: 9 February 2017
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Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowships provide a framework for established academics with an international reputation to pursue their research at the EUI.
Fellowships last for up to ten months in one of the EUI's four Departments which in turn invite fellows to participate in departmental activities (seminars, workshops, colloquia, etc.).
Fellows are encouraged to make contact with researchers sharing their academic interests, may be involved in the teaching and thesis supervision tasks of EUI professors, and associated with one of the research projects being carried out at the EUI.
There are two annual deadlines for applications - 30 March and/or 30 September
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The Department of Economics considers applications for the 30 March and the 30 September deadline.
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The Department of Law considers applications only for the 30 March deadline.
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The Department of History and Civilization and the Department of Political and Social Sciences consider applications only for the 30 September deadline.
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