UNU-WIDER Visiting PhD Fellowship 2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: September 30, 2025

Applications for the UNU-WIDER Visiting PhD Fellowship 2026. The Visiting PhD Fellowship Programme provides registered doctoral college students the OPPORTUNITY to make the most of the assets and amenities at UNU-WIDER for his or her PhD dissertation or thesis analysis on creating economies, and to work with UNU-WIDER’s researchers in areas of mutual curiosity.

Visiting PhD fellows usually spend three consecutive months at UNU-WIDER earlier than returning to their home establishment. During the programme, fellows put together a number of analysis papers and current a seminar on their analysis findings. They may additionally have the chance to publish their analysis within the WIDER Working Paper Series.

Benefits

• When the fellowship is undertaken in Helsinki, UNU-WIDER supplies a journey grant to cowl the prices of journey to and from the situation of your PhD granting establishment or nation of residence, medical insurance coverage (for medical and hospital companies ensuing from illness and accident throughout your keep at UNU-WIDER), and a month-to-month stipend of EUR 2,070 to cowl residing bills in Helsinki through the interval of their fellowship. The programme doesn’t cowl bills associated to dependents.

Eligibility

• Applicants should be enrolled in a PhD programme and have proven means to conduct analysis on creating economies. Candidates working in different social sciences could apply however ought to understand that UNU-WIDER is an economics-centered institute. Candidates ought to be fluent in oral and written English and possess good quantitative and/or qualitative analytical expertise. Applications from suitably certified early-profession, feminine, and creating nation researchers are significantly inspired. The programme is very addressed at researchers at later levels of their PhD.
• The Visiting PhD Fellowship Programme is very aggressive and solely a restricted variety of fellows will be accepted. In latest years, one % of all purposes have been profitable.

Application

Selected candidates shall be knowledgeable by e-mail of the last resolution inside 4 weeks of the closing deadline. The chosen candidates should affirm their resolution to take up UNU-WIDER’s supply two weeks after being contacted.

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For extra data, go to UNU-WIDER Visiting PhD Fellowship.