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From: owner-hums-pgr@lists.soton.ac.uk [mailto:owner-hums-pgr@lists.soton.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Quince E.M.
Sent: 28 January 2013 12:09
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Subject: FW: CRASSH Mellon/Newton postdoctoral fellowships
Mellon/Newton Interdisciplinary Post-doctoral Research Fellowships An annual competition for two 2-year research fellowships based at CRASSH.
CRASSH is pleased to announce the opening of the 2013-15 competition. For information on how to apply please click on the link at the right hand side of the page. The deadline for applications is 12.00pm GMT midday Friday 1 March 2013.
CRASSH offers two 2-year interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Research Fellowships starting in October and based at CRASSH. The five-year programme, funded jointly by the Andrew W Mellon Foundation and the Isaac Newton Trust, is aimed at researchers working in any field of the arts, social sciences or humanities. The fellowships enable postdoctoral fellows to consolidate their research and publication record while developing a related project or initiative at CRASSH during their two-year fellowship.
Applicants must have been awarded a PhD by the application deadline and should normally have been awarded it not more than five years prior to taking up their fellowship. As well as conducting their own research fellows are expected to initiate or co-ordinate a project at CRASSH. Such projects might include: convening a cross-disciplinary Graduate/Faculty research group; organising workshops, colloquia, or a conference in their field; creating an interdisciplinary research network; spearheading a collaborative cross-School or inter-institutional research initiative. Research proposals must relate to the Centre's theme for the relevant year. Like most postdoctoral fellows at Cambridge, they could at their discretion take on some tutorial teaching if they wished, to a maximum of 4-6 hours per week.
Fellows will report to the Director, Professor Simon Goldhill, and in addition will be assigned an appropriate Faculty mentor or mentors to link them to the wider research and teaching context in their field(s).
Appointment will be made for two years from October and is non-renewable. The pensionable scale of stipends for a Mellon/Newton Postdoctoral
Research Fellow is currently in the range of £27,578 - 35,938. A travel and research expenses allowance will be available.
Application
Mellon/Newton Research Fellows will have a strong academic record and the potential to make a significant contribution to interdisciplinary research initiatives, new or existing, at CRASSH and the University of Cambridge.
