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Postdoc fellowships

The Department of Politics and International Relations welcomes outstanding post-doctoral candidates to apply for externally funded schemes in order to undertake a post-doctoral fellowship.

The Department offers many career-development opportunities to post-doctoral fellows and will provide significant support to your research project and career progression while you are here.

Our research environment is ambitious and lively, but also friendly and supportive. Our expertise spans the discipline and an array of interdisciplinary areas. Current concentrations of research expertise include political theory, comparative politics, public policy, peacebuilding, global development, international security, human rights, international political economy, environmental and gender politics. We host three internationally renowned research centres, the Centre for Applied Human Rights, the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre, and the York Centre for Political Theory.

The Department of Politics and International Relations at York is committed to the Athena SWAN Charter and was awarded an Athena SWAN Bronze Award in May 2018 for its commitment to gender equality.

If you are interested in pursuing a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Politics, please complete this enquiry form Please note that we are unable to support all externally-funded schemes.

Once at York, you are expected to actively contribute to the research ethos of the department, by participating in activities related to our ongoing research agenda and organising activities advancing your own research interests. As part of your career development, it is important that you also undertake some teaching.

 

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship

This scheme supports a postdoctoral fellowship for up to one-year full-time (or 2 years part-time) to give fellows the opportunity to prepare for a successful career in research either within or beyond academia.

There is 1 call per year for outline proposals, typically in January.

This call is open to applicants who have undertaken their PhD at a research organisation that is part of an ESRC DTP or CDT, and who will have no more than 12 months of active postdoctoral experience by the closing date for full proposals, or who will have submitted their thesis and passed their viva voce with minor corrections by the full proposal deadline, with the expectation that the PhD will be awarded by the start of the Fellowship.

Further details are available at the ESRC postdoctoral fellowships website

11 December 2024, Briefing session information - ESRC White Rose Postdoctoral Fellowship

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