Research Opportunities

Deadline: February 28, 2020

In order to enhance the plurality of perspectives the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) offers two Norbert Elias Fellowships per year to researchers from Africa to take part in the ZiF's Research Groups. Successful applicants will become Fellows of one of the Research Groups and live and work at the ZiF for up to ten months. Norbert Elias Fellows also have the opportunity to work on their own projects, qualification and networking. Applications are welcome from senior or postdocs researchers from African Universities from all disciplines that can contribute to the research group's topic and are interested in interdisciplinary collaboration.

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Deadline: January 17 (summary) and February 14 (full application), 2020

As part of the Paris Seine excellence Initiative (PSI), a call for proposals has been launched to support research excellence and international development. The PSI-IAS Fellowships program is an international multidisciplinary visiting program. Researchers of all nationalities are eligible. The program will host 10 junior and senior researchers, for a duration ranging from 4 months to one year, during the academic year 2020-2021.

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Inquiries: fir-inq@ml.u-cergy.fr

Deadline: February 28, 2020, 5 pm (GMT)

All the following calls have the same deadline and are being offered by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Edinburgh.

Senior Anniversary Fellowship 2020-2021
In their 50^th anniversary year, the IASH is creating three-month Fellowships for the most promising scholars in the arts, humanities and social sciences. For 2020-21, they seek applications centred on the place of the humanities in the 21^st century to take forward inquiry in a cross-disciplinary way, perhaps at the outermost disciplinary boundaries of the humanities, arts and social sciences. £10,500 bursary, plus travel grants.
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Environmental Humanities Visiting Research Fellowships 2020-2021
These Visiting Fellowships of between two and four months are intended to encourage outstanding interdisciplinary research, international scholarly collaboration, and networking activities of Visiting Research Fellows with a specific focus on the Environmental Humanities. £1,000 bursary available.
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IASH-SSPS Research Fellowships 2020-2021
The IASH-SSPS Research Fellowships are intended to encourage outstanding interdisciplinary research, international scholarly collaboration, and networking activities of visiting Research Fellows together with academics in the School of Social and Political Science (SSPS). Two to four month visit. Stipends available.
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Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellowship in 18th-Century Scottish Studies 2020-2021
The Daiches-Manning Memorial Fellowship honours two outstanding scholars of eighteenth-century Scottish literature and culture, Professor David Daiches (1912–2005) and Professor Susan Manning (1953–2013). Bursary of US$3,000/£1,800 in support of research on any aspect of eighteenth-century Scottish studies. Two to six month visit, open to postdoctoral scholars of all nationalities, in all disciplines, and at all career levels.
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Digital Scholarship Visiting Research Fellowships 2020-21
These Visiting Fellowships of between two and four months are intended to encourage outstanding digitally-focussed, interdisciplinary research, international scholarly collaboration, and networking activities with a specific focus on the digital. £1,000 bursary available.
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Combe Trust Fellowship
The Combe Trust Fellowship is intended to encourage outstanding interdisciplinary research and international scholarly collaboration with academics in the Centre for Theology and Public Issues in Edinburgh: https://ctpi.div.ed.ac.uk/. Applications for visits of two to three months are welcomed from senior researchers in the following areas: public theology, religion and religious education, physiology and health, Scots law, peacebuilding, prison reform, psychiatry, psychology and neuroscience, moral philosophy, natural sciences or the arts (e.g. theatre, film, dance, visual arts). £3,900 bursary.
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IASH-Alwaleed Research Fellowship
The IASH-Alwaleed Research Fellowship is intended to encourage outstanding interdisciplinary research in the field of contemporary Islam and Muslim culture, international scholarly collaboration, and networking activities of visiting Research Fellows together with academics in the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World: www.alwaleed.ed.ac.uk. £3,500 bursary plus travel grants.
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The USP Global Cities Program is launching its second public call for postdoctoral researchers and collaborators. The objective is to contribute to the improvement of research, and the scientific and technological excellence of the University, as well as to enable the formation of groups of national and foreign researchers focused on urban issues, integrating networks of studies and international research. The generation of applications, experiments, and solutions that become subsidies for the necessary transformations in the urban context is seen as a desirable consequence of the participation of new researchers in the program.

The researchers should present an inter- and transdisciplinary perspective in their projects, intensifying the dialogue and interaction between social and human sciences, experimental sciences such as mathematics and computing, physics, chemistry, biology, and all their technological aspects, and environmental sciences and sustainability. The proposals should consider the complexities of cities and the 2050-projection.

Since the IEA-USP is an interdisciplinary environment, the participants will be given the possibility of developing innovative research projects, establishing academic connections, and entering the various research networks to which the Institute and other units are related.

The deadline for the submission of projects is November 22, 2019, at 3:00 pm (GMT -3).

Programmes

Postdoctoral Programme

Its general objective is to improve the level of the scientific and technological excellence at USP. Its specific goal is to further enhance advanced research skills of postdoctoral researchers under the supervision of an experimented researcher who needs to be a faculty member. The submitted projects have to be carried out in schools, institutes, museums, and other bodies belonging to the university.

• Duration: from 6 months to 2 years. Extensions are possible.
• Minimum workload: 20 hours per week; total of 960 hours

Research Collaborator Programme

Its objective is to stimulate the collaboration between researchers of USP and external faculty and non-faculty academics. The submitted projects have to be carried out in schools, institutes, museums, and other bodies belonging to the university. The collaboration proposal has to be submitted by a USP faculty member.

• Applications must be submitted by an USP professor to the IEA-USP Research Committee.
• Workload: minimum of 12 and maximum of 20 hours per week.
• Duration: the collaborator researcher can develop the same research project for up to 5 years.

Financing

Participations in both programmes can be developed with or without a scholarship. It will be up to the interested party to indicate the chosen programme and submit an application to the funding agencies.

Schedule

Projects without funding

• Registration: October 8 - November 22, 2019
• Result: March 12, 2020
• Start date: March 26, 2020

Funded projects

• Registration: October 8 - November 22, 2019

• Continuous flow of result dissemination, depending on the response of the funding agencies

• Start date: March 26, 2020

Please consult the supervisors before submitting a proposal

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Deadline: November 10, 2019

The Institut de Hautes Etudes de l’Amérique Latine (IHEAL) has open positions for invited scholars until November 10, 2019.

The invitation is valid for a semester-long stay (4 months from September to December 2020 or 3 months from January to March 2021). This is to allow the invited scholar to immerse him or herself into the academic life of the University.

Invited scholars are asked to teach two courses per semester, each one consisting of 24 hours. The course’s subject must be in line with the field of expertise of the invited scholar. The proposed courses might be modified according to the needs of IHEAL. Courses can be taught in French, Spanish or English.

The IHEAL receives applications in the following areas: History, Geography, Anthropology, Sociology, Economy and Political Science. For the academic year of 2020-2021, the commission will pay special attention to courses in Sociology, Gender Studies or Urban Studies, or focused on Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico are highly preferred. Visiting scholars may be invited to teach within the IHEAL’s new Masters’ program LAGLOBE (Latin America and Europe in a Global World), which benefits from the European Union support.

Invited scholars can perform scientific and academic activities in the others Departments of the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 University, or any of the French and European Institutions with which the IHEAL collaborates upon requests.

More information on this opportunity and instructions for submitting applications available at this link.