Research Opportunities
French Network of Institutes for Advanced Study
Deadline: July 6, 2021
The French Institutes for Advanced Study Fellowship Programme offers 10-month fellowships in the five Institutes of Paris, Lyon, Marseille, Montpellier, and Nantes. It welcomes applications from high-level international scholars and scientists primarily in the fields of the social sciences and the humanities (SSH). The Paris IAS also welcomes projects at the interface between SSH and the cognitive and neuro-science.
Interested parties must have a strong interdisciplinary dimension and aim at a major advance on their topic or in methods. An essential selection criteria is the capacity of the proposed projects to make explicit their potential impact beyond their discipline/field and possibly beyond academia. Priority will be given to projects addressing societal challenges or offering innovative insights into the functioning of humans and societies.
The FIAS fellows will benefit from the support and conducive scientific environment offered by the IAS, in an interdisciplinary cohort of fellows and in close relation to the local research potential. The fellows will be free to organize their work and conduct research as they wish.
Available positions for the 2022-2023 academic year: 28
- Paris: 17
- Marseille: 4
- Montpellier: 3
- Nantes: 4
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.