Research Opportunities
Central European University Budapest, Hungary
Deadline: August 25, 2021
The Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University Budapest offers residential fellowships to highly accomplished senior and promising young scholars seeking to spend 6-10 months in an interdisciplinary intellectual community of their peers while pursuing their own research. Currently, they are accepting submissions for various fellowship schemes, namely:
- the Junior and Senior Core Fellowship,
- the Botstiber Junior Fellowship in Transatlantic Austrian and Central European Relationships,
- the Affiliated Fellowship program, as well as
- the Artist in Residence program for writers and visual/new media artists.
University of Konstanz, Germany
Deadline: June 4 and July 5, 2021
The Zukunftskolleg is an Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Konstanz for the promotion of outstanding early career researchers in the natural sciences, humanities and social sciences. It forms a platform for interdisciplinary discourse between researchers in Germany and abroad, and provides them with resources for obtaining extramural funding. Researchers at the Zukunftskolleg perform research without administrative constraints and have the freedom to engage in meaningful exchange with other up-and-coming colleagues and with distinguished senior researchers.
This funding programmes seek to enhance international research cooperation and to support international mobility. It funds temporary research stays of one to three months at the Zukunftskolleg for international exchange among peers. It is open to all Fellows of the UBIAS network. The aim of the Research Visits is to provide an opportunity to engage in a research project at the University of Konstanz, ideally in collaboration with a Zukunftskolleg fellow. No limitation is placed on the area of research within the humanities, natural and social sciences. Interdepartmental and interdisciplinary study is encouraged. The grant will cover travel and accommodation costs plus a contribution to the living costs.
Waseda University, Japan
Deadline: June 8, 2021
The Waseda Institute for Advanced Study (WIAS) seeks to recruit researchers who will undertake highly creative research projects that have the potential to identify issues for the future investigation, and who will carve out new fields of study within the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences. Researchers will be required to teach at least one full-year class per year (equivalent to two half-year classes), and may teach up to three full-year classes per year (equivalent to up to six half-year classes) at Waseda University. Persons with a doctorate, preferably granted after April 1, 2012, or those who are expected to obtain a doctorate by the time of appointment, are eligible to apply.
Durham University, England
Deadline: June 25, 2021
The Durham University Institute of Advanced Study provides a unique environment to foster transformational thinking, and seeks to catalyse new ideas by bringing together world-leading researchers from all disciplines to work with Durham scholars on collaborative interdisciplinary projects. Applications are now invited for Fellowships in 2022/23. Each year the IAS supports a number of funded collaborative research projects, and Fellowships are available for scholars who would like to apply to engage with these (see www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/advanced-study/projects/future-projects/. Scholars may also apply to come to Durham for a term to work on other collaborative interdisciplinary research with academics at Durham University. All applicants must have a Durham host and a collaboratively composed Fellowship plan.
University of Freiburg, Germany
Deadline: June 30, 2021
The Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) at the University of Freiburg in conjunction with the International Balzan Prize Foundation offers up to three 6-month Junior Fellowships in Global Environmental History for the period from February to July 2022. The fellowships are funded from the Balzan Prize awarded to Professor Jürgen Osterhammel by the Fondazione Internazionale Premio Balzan. They are addressed to scholars preparing a post-doctoral research monograph on a topic of global environmental history. Fellows will join the multidisciplinary community at FRIAS and will have full access to the facilities and activities at the Institute.