Olympic Studies Centre PhD Students & Early Career Academics Research Grant Programme 2027 – YOA

Deadline: September 22, 2026

Applications are invited for the Olympic Studies Centre PhD Students & Early Career Academics Research Grant Programme 2027. The Olympic Studies Centre (OSC) organises an annual analysis grant programme supposed for PhD Students and Early Career Academics engaged in scholarly analysis on the Olympic Movement, its historical past and beliefs, and the affect of the Olympic Games on the varied facets of latest society and tradition.

The targets of the programme are as follows:

• Support PhD Students and Early Career Academics and foster excellence in Olympic associated analysis with a humanities and/or social sciences perspective.
• Facilitate a analysis and study go to on the Olympic Studies Centre in Lausanne, Switzerland (the Olympic Capital), and the session of the OSC’s collections (together with major sources and the IOC historic archives).
• Support the subsequent technology of students within the discipline of Olympic research.

Grant

• Successful candidates will obtain a analysis grant of a most of USD $6,000. The whole quantity to be awarded shall be determined by the Grant Programme Selection Committee after full consideration of all parts of the application.

Eligibility

• Students enrolled in a PhD diploma programme, with a humanities and/or social sciences perspective, with Olympism, the Olympic Movement or the Olympic Games as, a minimum of, one of many analysis foci. Students should stay enrolled within the PhD diploma programme for your complete period of the grant, from submission of the application to supply of the ultimate report.
• The undertaking introduced ought to display a transparent contribution to the candidate’s doctoral thesis.
• Academic workers and postdoctoral fellows who accomplished their doctorate or equal highest diploma with a humanities and/or social sciences perspective (together with masters, relying on the sphere) in or after 2024 (named or referred to on this programme as “Early Career Academics” (ECA)).
• ECA candidates should maintain a college appointment protecting the interval of the grant (from submission of the application to supply of the ultimate report).

Application

Applications and all supporting documentation should be submitted in both French or English, the 2 official languages of the Olympic Movement. Completed application information should embrace the next paperwork:

• Official application form duly completed
• Proof of registration protecting the interval of the grant (from submission of the application to supply of the ultimate report), issued by the college administration on institutional letterhead:
  • for PhD college students: present proof of doctoral enrolment;
  • for ECA: present proof of a college appointment, together with educational/analysis standing.
• Letter of advice written on institutional letterhead, signed and despatched by the applicant’s supervisor (for PhD college students) or mentor (for ECA).
  • The Selection Committee is especially within the supervisor’s/mentor’s evaluation of the next factors: the scholarly significance of the analysis undertaking; the methodology and authentic nature of the study; the affect of the undertaking on the Olympic Movement; the candidate’s coaching, skills, achievements so far and motivation for the analysis proposed; and the probability that the applicant will full the undertaking on time.
• If the analysis proposal contains interviews, surveys or every other methodologies that contain human topics, human knowledge and/or fieldwork, or as required by the applicant’s home establishment, a certificates stating that the undertaking has been authorised by the college’s ethics committee should be included.
• Applicants are requested to pay attention to the Guidelines regarding using synthetic intelligence (AI) instruments and disclose if they’ve used an AI device to develop their application.

For extra info, see official rules or go to Olympic Studies Centre Research Grant.