ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships for Social Sciences

Program Overview:

The ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships by UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) present early profession researchers with the chance to reinforce their analysis careers by a variety of actions designed to construct their expertise, networks, {and professional} capability. Successful candidates may have the prospect to supply publications, develop additional analysis expertise, and achieve worthwhile expertise in skilled improvement. This fellowship is especially centered on advancing social sciences analysis and facilitating collaboration with varied stakeholders.

Fellowship Benefits:

• Publications: Produce analysis outputs to construct your tutorial observe report.
• Networks: Engage with various audiences and develop skilled networks.
• Professional Skills: Develop important expertise by internships, coaching, and analysis visits.
• Research: Conduct further analysis (as much as 25% of your fellowship actions) associated to your PhD.
• Teaching: Up to six hours of educating per week, the place aligned with fellowship actions.
• Collaboration: Engage with customers of analysis by placements or internships to develop transferrable expertise {and professional} insights.

Eligibility Criteria:

• PhD Requirement: You should have accomplished your PhD at a UK analysis organisation or expect to obtain the PhD award by the fellowship begin date.
• Active Postdoctoral Experience: You should have lower than 12 months of postdoctoral expertise at a full-time charge from the date you handed your viva voce to the applying time limit.
• PhD Status: By the time limit, you have to have handed your viva voce and be awarded your PhD by the fellowship begin date. If main corrections are required to your thesis, you aren’t eligible.
• Research Organisation: Fellowships should be held at a analysis organisation that’s a part of a Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) and aligned with an accredited topic space. The fellowship actions should embrace a minimum of 50% social science focus.

What We’re Looking For:

The proposed fellowship actions ought to mirror your earlier expertise and assist your long-term analysis profession targets. Fellowship actions could embrace:

• Publishing analysis to reinforce your tutorial observe report.
• Engaging with various audiences to speak findings.
• Building networks to develop affect alternatives.
• Collaborating with customers by placements or internships.
• Training to enhance analysis and associated expertise.
• Developing funding proposals for future initiatives.
• Carrying out further analysis (as much as 25% of the programme).
• Research visits to main establishments (UK or worldwide) for collaboration and knowledge entry.

Fellowships will be undertaken both full-time for as much as one yr or part-time for as much as two years. The fellowship should start on 1 October 2025, with flexibility for later begin dates in distinctive circumstances.

How to Apply:

Applications should be submitted on to the related Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP), which is able to handle the peer assessment and evaluation course of. Each DTP could have its personal submission procedures and deadlines, together with an expression of curiosity section.

• Deadline for Submission: Full proposals should be submitted by 25 March 2025, 4:00pm UK time to the DTP you might be making use of to.
• Institutional Deadlines: Be conscious of and cling to any inner deadlines set by your establishment.

Participating DTPs:

The following DTPs are collaborating on this spherical of funding:

• CAM DTP
• Grand Union DTP
• London Interdisciplinary Social Science DTP
• London School of Economics DTP
• Midlands Graduate School DTP
• Northern Ireland and North East DTP
• North West Social Science DTP
• Scottish Graduate School of Social Science DTP
• South Coast DTP
• South and East Network for Social Sciences (SeNSS) DTP
• South East Doctoral Training Arc (SEDarc) DTP
• South West DTP
• UCL, Bloomsbury and East London DTP
• Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences DTP
• White Rose Social Sciences DTP

Duration & Funding:

• Full-Time Fellowship: Up to at least one yr.
• Part-Time Fellowship: Up to 2 years.
• Start Date: 1 October 2025 (exceptions will be mentioned with the DTP).

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion:

ESRC is dedicated to equality of alternative and encourages purposes from various researchers. We assist versatile working, profession breaks, and lodging for folks with caring obligations.

Personal Data:

ESRC will accumulate private knowledge according to UK knowledge safety legal guidelines to handle purposes and funding. Successful purposes may have private info revealed on the UKRI Gateway to Research.

Contact Information:

For queries, please contact the related Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP) immediately for extra particulars in regards to the fellowship software course of.

Please visit the website for more information and application process!