ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships
Notify Faculty of intention to apply by: 16 December 2024
Deadline for submission for internal selection: 6 January 2025
Funder deadline: 25 March 2025
The Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership invite applications for up to four one year ESRC-funded postdoctoral fellowships to be based at one of the partner institutions: Brunel University London, the Open University or the University of Oxford.
Fellowships are aimed at those in the immediately postdoctoral stage of their career, to provide the opportunity to consolidate their PhD through developing publications, their networks, and their research and professional skills. Proposals are welcome from single or multi-disciplinary backgrounds but the fellowship activities must be aligned to one of the Grand Union DTP’s 23 thematic pathways and based at least 50% within the social sciences.
The total cost for each fellowship can include Fellow’s salary costs, indirect costs, estate costs, and up to a maximum of £10,000 for all other costs (to include costs such as mentoring costs, travel and subsistence, conference attendance, training, and fieldwork, for example).
The call will be open to applicants who have undertaken their PhD at a research organisation that is part of an ESRC-funded DTP or CDT. At the application submission deadline (25 March 2025), the applicant must either have been awarded a PhD or have submitted their thesis and passed their viva voce with minor corrections, with the expectation that the PhD will be awarded by the fellowship start date. Fellowships must start 1 October 2025.
Grants are restricted to those with no more than 12 months active postdoctoral experience, between passing their viva and the application deadline of 25 March 2025.
Visit the Grand Union website for full details
Internal selection process
This scheme includes a formal Expression of Interest stage. Departments will be able to put forward one candidate each, who will be assessed by the DTP. Applicants are requested to complete an Expression of Interest form and an Equal Opportunities Monitoring Form, and submit their CV (2x sides of A4, font size 11) and case for support (6 sides of A4 maximum, font size 11), as well as supplying a mentor's letter of support (2 pages max).
The Faculty will be limited to supporting only one application and will therefore need to hold an internal selection process before the selected candidate's proposal is forwarded to the DTP for confirmation.
The deadline for expressions of interest forms to be submitted to the Faculty via research@law.ox.ac.uk for consideration will 5pm Monday 6th January 2025*. Applicants should expect to be notified of they have been accepted to submit a full application within two weeks of this deadline. The deadline for full submissions will be 16:00 GMT 25 March 2025. The application form and required documents will need to be submitted as a single PDF by Faculty research administration on behalf of the candidate.
*This is to be distinguished from the Social Science Division's Expression of Interest deadline of 12 noon, 20th January 2025 - this is the deadline for the Faculty to confirm its choice of applicant to the Division. The Division is expected to support the Faculty's choice provided there are no eligibility concerns with the selected candidate.