Call for Applications: Fung Global Fellows Program, Princeton University
The Fung Global Fellows Program reflects Princeton University’s commitment to engaging with scholars from around the world and inspiring ideas that transcend borders. The program brings exceptional international early-career faculty members working in the social sciences and the humanities to Princeton for a year of research, writing, and collaboration. It is administered by the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, which serves as a site for integration and joint activity across all of the University’s international and area programs.
Each year, the Fung Global Fellows Program will select six scholars from around the world to be in residence at Princeton for one academic year and to engage in research, writing, and collaboration around a common theme. The program includes a public seminar series where the fellows will present their work to the University community. Fellowships will be awarded through a competitive application process to scholars employed outside the United States who have demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievement, exhibit unusual intellectual promise, and are still early in their careers.
Interested scholars whose research engages with the theme “Languages and Authority” and who meet the eligibility criteria as outlined below are invited to submit their application.
The Fung Global Fellows Program welcomes applications from scholars who have received their Ph.D. (or the equivalent of an Anglo-American Ph.D.) within 10 years of the proposed start date of the fellowship. For a fellowship beginning in fall 2013, applicants must have received their degree no earlier than September 1, 2003.
The receipt of the Ph.D. is determined by the date on which all requirements for the degree at the applicant’s home institution, including the defense and filing of the dissertation, were fulfilled.
Applicants must hold a position outside the United States of America at the time of application and are expected to return to that institution at the conclusion of the fellowship.
Fellowships will be awarded to candidates who have demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievement and exhibit unusual intellectual promise but are still at the beginning of their careers. Criteria for the fellowship include the strength of the candidate’s research projects, the relationship of those projects to the program’s theme, the candidate’s previous scholarly work, the candidate’s ability to contribute to the intellectual life and intellectual exchange of the program, and the candidate’s work experience outside the United States. The selection committee is looking to establish a cohort of fellows whose research represents diverse analytical approaches and addresses a wide variety of periods and places. The Fung Global Fellows Program has a particular interest in fostering innovative interdisciplinary approaches.
US citizens and noncitizens, regardless of race, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability, are eligible to apply.
Fellows must reside in or near Princeton during the academic year of their fellowship so that they can attend weekly seminars and other events on campus. Fellows are also expected to present a paper from their ongoing projects at one of the sessions of the weekly seminar.
DEADLINE: November 1, 2012
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Call for Applications: Advanced Research Fellowships, CODESRIA Higher Education Leadership Programme
The Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa is pleased to announce the 2012 session of its Advanced Research Fellowship Programme in the framework of the Higher Education Leadership Programme (HELP), and to invite interested scholars based in African universities and research centres to submit applications for consideration.
Objectives
The HELP Advanced Research Fellowship programme is designed to contribute to the reinforcement and promotion of a culture of concentrated and extended reflection among African scholars on issues revolving around higher education leadership and governance in Africa. The programme particularly targets the younger generation of post-doctoral African scholars interested in carrying out advanced research on aspects related to higher education leadership in Africa. The programme is open to candidates from all disciplines of the social sciences and humanities, in higher education institutions situated within the countries that are covered in the current phase of the programme. The countries are Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa. Through the programme, support is offered to scholars interested in charting new research directions or extending on-going research to new heights, with the expectation that this will contribute immensely to enriching the state of knowledge about different aspects of the historical and contemporary challenges and transformations in the governance and leadership of higher education institutions. Candidates are free to determine the theme on which they wish to work and to specify their preferred methodology for doing so. In identifying candidates whose applications should be supported, emphasis will be placed on the potential for their proposals to lead to the production of new/original insights. The fellowship will cover a period of one year, at the end of which a report of publishable quality shall be submitted for evaluation. Each report is expected to be between 70,000 and 80,000 words long and, if accepted for publication, will be included in the CODESRIA Monograph Series. For the year 2012, the Council will be awarding six fellowships of a maximum value of USD 8,000 each.
Eligibility
To be eligible, candidates are expected to be holders of a doctoral degree in any of the social sciences and humanities. All applicants are required to be affiliated to an African university or research institution within the countries covered under this programme.
Interested candidates are requested to submit the following documents:
a) A research proposal of between 10 and 15 pages which should be a clear statement of the work to be undertaken, the problematic that underpins it, the significance of the study vis-à-vis the existing literature, the methodology to be employed, implications of the methodological approach adopted for the empirical research to be undertaken and the expected output. Candidates are expected to have a thorough knowledge of the relevant social science or humanities literature, and strongly encouraged to indicate the innovative or original dimensions which they hope their study will yield. A detailed presentation of the epistemological foundations of the research will also be considered as an added advantage.
b) The duration of each fellowship is one year, effective from the date of award. Each application should be accompanied by a detailed work programme spread over a period of 12 months beginning from the date of award of the fellowship.
c) Applicants are required to provide a detailed budget – up to a maximum of USD 8,000 – which includes the research and dissemination costs they expect to incur throughout the duration of their fellowship. The budget should be structured to reflect the disbursement formula the Council intends to apply: paying 50% of the fellowship amount upon signature of the award contract, 25% upon receipt of a satisfactory scientific progress report, and the remaining 25% per cent upon receipt of the final revised version of the research results. In addition to the costs of fieldwork and book acquisition, candidates are encouraged to consider integrating participation in one international conference relevant to their research preoccupation in the budgetary framework of their study. The final choice of the conference to be attended will be made in close consultation with the CODESRIA Department of Training, Grants and Fellowships, on the understanding that requests for support to participate in such an international conference will only be entertained by CODESRIA after the receipt of a first complete draft of the final report of the fellow for which feedback from the international scientific community might be elicited for possible revision.
d) Applications should be accompanied by three reference letters, one of which should be from the candidate’s dean confirming institutional affiliation and others from scholars who are familiar with the applicants’ work and are in a position to attest to their institutional affiliation and competence to undertake this kind of work. Where possible, candidates are requested to include at least one reference from a scholar based outside their countries of residence.
e) Each candidate should submit a detailed curriculum vitae showing clearly the candidate’s research publications and participation in research network/activities. Copies of certificates obtained by candidates should be included in the application.
f) Applicants should include a copy of their doctoral degree certificate as part of their application documents. CODESRIA reserves the right to cross-check the actual date on which candidates completed their studies in order to determine their eligibility for the fellowship programme.
g) A one-page letter is expected from each applicant, affirming his/her readiness to submit a monograph-length scientific report of between 70,000 and 80,000 words as the outcome of the research carried out under the grant. The letter should also show the applicant’s commitment to carrying out all revisions arising from the peer-review of their report in a timely manner, and affirm his/her understanding that the final version of the report will be published in the Monograph Series.
Selection Process
All applications received will be reviewed by an independent Selection Committee comprising eminent scholars. All candidates will be notified of the results of the selection process.
The results of the selection panel will be sent out to the applicants by 30th September 2012. Applications should be addressed to:
The HELP Advanced Research Fellowship
CODESRIA
BP 3304, CP 18524
Dakar, Senegal
Tel: +221- 33 825 98 22/23
Fax: +221-33 824 12 89
E-Mail: helpadvanced.fellowship(at)codesria.sn
Website: http://www.codesria.org/
DEADLINE: September 15, 2012