Scholarships for Postdoctoral Students

Scholarships for Research

Scholarship Program: Lightweight Vehicle Structures Research Scholarship at RMIT University in Australia
Employer: RMIT
Level of Study: postgraduate research
Subjects:: Lightweight Vehicle Structures
Country: Australia
Scholarship Description: The School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering along with the AutoCRC are collaborating to investigate research in lightweight vehicle structures. The scholarship is valued at $25,000 per annum (tax free) for 3 years plus $10,000 to support an internship in Germany for the first year.
Scholarship Website: http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=82oamp6vryc2

Scholarship Program: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowships for Sub-Saharan African Countries Students in Africa
Employer: The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), in partnership with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Level of Study: Doctoral Dissertation Research
Subjects: Various
Country: Africa
Scholarship Description: The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), in partnership with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), is pleased to announce the sixth call for applications for the African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowships (ADDRF). The ADDRF Program seeks to facilitate more rigorous engagement of doctoral students in research, strengthen their research skills, and provide them an opportunity for timely completion of their doctoral training.
Scholarship Website: http://www.aphrc.org/download/ADDRFCallenglish2013opt.pdf

Scholarship Program: Research Fellowships in Human Factors at King’s College London in UK
Employer: King’s College London
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Human Factors
Country: UK
Scholarship Description: The Research Fellow will design in detail, manage and conduct the research required by Work Package 2 of the TRANSFoRm project. The objective of this Work Package is to develop a prototype of a decision support system (DSS) for primary care. The postholder will: 1) contribute to the design of the DSS prototype, and 2) evaluate the effectiveness of the final prototype in a controlled experimental study.This post is suitable for a researcher with a postgraduate qualification in human factors and further research/work experience in human factors.
Scholarship Website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=12454

Scholarship Program: AHRC Postgraduate Research Scholarships at University of Sheffield in UK
Employer: The Arts and Humanities Research Council
Level of Study: Postgraduate Research
Subjects: Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Librarianship, Archives, Record Management & Information Science
Country:
Scholarship Description: The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) supports world-class research that furthers our understanding of human culture and creativity. The University of Sheffield has been awarded substantial AHRC funding for postgraduate research scholarships across the Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences.
Scholarship Website: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/scholarships/ahrc

Scholarship Program: Leeds International Research Scholarships (LIRS) in UK
Employer: University of Leeds
Level of Study: PhD
Subjects: Any
Country: UK
Scholarship Description: Leeds International Research Scholarships are available for high quality international students who will be commencing PhD research study from Session 2013-2014 for study in any Faculty at the University of Leeds. Around 9 awards are Leeds International Research Scholarships (LIRS), are available for high quality international students who will be commencing PhD research study from October 2013. The awards cover the full cost of international fees and provide maintenance (amount to be confirmed).
Scholarship Website: http://scholarships.leeds.ac.uk/

Scholarship Program: Research Position for Developing Countries Students at IRRI in Philippines
Employer: International Rice Research Institute
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Molecular Biology
Country: Philippines
Scholarship Description: The successful candidate will contribute in the development, integration and characterization of multigene constructs in rice. Work on multi-gene vector construction, molecular characterization and analysis for multi-gene transformations in transgenic rice.
Scholarship Website: http://irri.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=category&id=420&Itemid=100219&lang=en

Scholarship Program: Jordan Travel Grant for Research Students at SOAS, University of London in UK
Employer: SOAS, University of London
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Religions
Country: UK
Scholarship Description: Must be enrolled in a PhD degree in the Department of the Study of Religions Notification: The Department’s Jordan Travel Grant Committee will meet in March to decide upon the distribution of the awards, and those who have been granted an award will be informed shortly thereafter. The Jordan Travel Grant is made available to Research students in the Department of the Study of Religions to help with travel expenses incurred by their research projects.
Scholarship Website: http://www.soas.ac.uk/registry/scholarships/w-charitable-foundation-scholarships-msc-environmental-management.html

Scholarship Program: Research Position in Medieval History at University of Oslo in Norway
Employer: University of Oslo, Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History.
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Medieval History
Country: Norway
Scholarship Description: The position will be part of the research project “Graphicacy and Authority in Early Europe: Graphic Signs of Power and Faith in the Early Middle Ages (c. 300-c.1000)”. The project aims to contribute towards a better understanding of non-figural graphic representational signs developing in early medieval Europe by placing them in the contexts of related written discourse, concurrent political culture, and wider socio-cultural milieu.
Scholarship Website: http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/835789/62039?iso=no

Scholarship Program: NAMASEN -Early Stage Research Position in Neurosciences – Neurophysiology in Belgium
Employer: European Commission under the FP7 Marie-Curie PEOPLE program
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Neurosciences – Neurophysiology
Country: Belgium
Scholarship Description: This position largely focuses on conducting mathematical modeling as well as experimental electrophysological studies on in vitro neuronal networks, growing and developing ex vivo on substrate arrays of microelectrodes (MEAs), investigating their spontaneous collective activity, their excitability dynamics over long-time scales, and their active reconfiguration by optogenetic tools.
Scholarship Website: http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.DEPTPERSONEEL&n=104283&ct=104283&e=302205

Scholarship Program: Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources in USA
Employer: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Level of Study: Dissertation Research
Subjects: humanities and related social science
Country: USA
Scholarship Description: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is pleased to offer fellowships generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for dissertation research in the humanities or related social sciences in original sources.The program offers about fifteen competitively awarded fellowships a year. Each provides a stipend of $2,000 per month for periods ranging from 9-12 months.
Scholarship Website: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/mellon.html

Scholarship Program: Research Associate Position at Ch. Charan Singh University in India
Employer: Ch. Charan Singh University
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Creation of Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF for the promotion of Biology Teaching through Bioinformatics (BTBI) Scheme of BTISet.
Country: India
Scholarship Description: Candidate should have a Ph.D. degree in Bioinformatics/Biotechnology/Genetics and Plant Breeding with adequate experience in the area of Bioinformatics. If a suitable candidate for the post of RA is not available, a JRF/SRF may be appointed. Candidate for the post of JRF/SRF should have Master’s degree in a relevant subject with adequate experience in the area of Bioinformatics. NET/DBT-BINC qualified candidates will be preferred.
Scholarship Website: http://www.ccsuexams.com/ccsuniversity/

Scholarship Program: Advancing Roma Inclusion Grant for International Students, USA
Employer: Open Society Foundation
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Arts and Culture
Country: USA
Scholarship Description: The Arts and Culture Program works at the nexus of arts, culture, human rights, and social advocacy. Through its grants, the program strives to encourage broad-based critical reflection and catalyze social action in parts of the world where open societies are absent or weak, and where the cultural rights of minority groups are endangered. In particular, the program provides grants to projects that aim to promote the cultural inclusion of Roma in Central and Eastern Europe.
Scholarship Website: http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/advancing-roma-inclusion-through-arts-and-culture

Scholarship Program: Conservation Guest Scholarship Program for International Students at GCI
Employer: The Getty Foundation
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: conservation, with an emphasis on the visual arts (including sites, buildings, objects) and the theoretical underpinnings of the field.
Country: USA
Scholarship Description: The Conservation Guest Scholar Program at the Getty Conservation Institute supports new ideas and perspectives in the field of conservation, with an emphasis on the visual arts (including sites, buildings, objects) and the theoretical underpinnings of the field.
Scholarship Website: http://www.getty.edu/foundation/funding/residential/conservation_guest_scholars.html

Scholarship Program: Research Associate Position at UNU-EHS in Germany
Employer: United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Building Resilience to Climate Change: Turning Research into Action
Country: Germany
Scholarship Description: The project will address building resilience in Bangladesh through three groups of activities: expanding knowledge through research, building capacity through a South-North and North-South training program, and translating learning and new capacities into action that will benefit communities affected by climate variability and exposed to longer-term climate change.
Scholarship Website: http://www.bonn.unu.edu/file/get/10461.pdf

Scholarship Program: Senior Research Position in Social Impact of Climate Change at the WASCAL in Burkina Faso
Employer: WASCAL Competence Center
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Social Impact of Climate Change
Country: Burkina Faso
Scholarship Description: The WASCAL project management wishes to appoint an experienced scholar with a strong theoretical and empirical background in the study of social ecological systems (e.g. in political ecology, NRM, vulnerability studies) and population dynamics (e.g. in demography, mobility, rural livelihoods, land use change). The senior researcher will act as leader of the team “Social impact of climate change” at the WASCAL Competence Center in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso where he/she will support an interdisciplinary group of six teams.
Scholarship Website: http://www.zef.de/fileadmin/webfiles/downloads/vacancies/VA_WASCAL/CALL_WASCAL_social_impact.pdf

Scholarship Program: Research Assistant Position in Visual Computation at Radboud University Netherlands
Employer: Radboud University
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Visual Computation
Country: Netherlands
Scholarship Description: The Visual Computation group at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour has funding available for a research assistant to work on studies of visual perception. As a research assistant you will be involved in the Visual Computation group’s research into the neural basis of visual perception, perceptual learning and top-down attention. Research methods include functional brain imaging (fMRI), pattern-based techniques for analysing fMRI data, computational neural network modelling, and other techniques.
Scholarship Website: http://www.ru.nl/newstaff/working_at_radboud/details/details-vacature?recid=509119

Scholarship Program: Barra Foundation International Research Fellowships in American History and Culture, USA
Employer: Barra Foundation
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: history of America and the Atlantic world
Country: USA
Scholarship Description: The Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania each year offer two one-month fellowships to support research in residence in their collections by foreign national scholars of early American history and culture living outside the United States. The fellowships are funded by the Barra Foundation, Inc.These two independent research libraries, adjacent to each other in Center City Philadelphia, have complementary collections capable of supporting research in a variety of fields and disciplines relating to the history of America and the Atlantic world from the 17th through the 19th centuries, as well as Mid-Atlantic regional history to the present.
Scholarship Website: http://www.librarycompany.org/fellowships/barra.htm

Scholarship Program: Greece Scholarships for Australian Students, Greece
Employer: FAAIA and Hellenic Club
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Archaeology, History, literature of Ancient Greece – Byzantine Archaeology, History, and literature Post-Byzantine Greece, Modem Greek Studies including history, literature, and art.
Country: Greece
Scholarship Description: The Friends of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens (FAAIA) and the Hellenic Club announce that applications are open for a scholarship designed to assist a local Canberra scholar whose research requires a period in Greece.
Scholarship Website: http://cass.anu.edu.au/current-students/notices/greece-scholarship-2013-friends-australian-archaeological-institute-athens-

Scholarship Program: African Guest Researchers Scholarship Programme, Sweden
Employer: The Nordic Africa Institute
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Agrarian Change, Property and Resources Conflict, Displacement and Transformation Globalization, Trade and Regional Integration Urban Dynamics
Country: Sweden
Scholarship Description: One important task of the Nordic Africa Institute is to establish and maintain relations with African research communities. This is inter alia carried out through a Guest Researchers’ Scholarship Programme, the aim of which is to provide opportunities for African scholars to pursue their own research projects, thereby indirectly strengthening the academic milieux in African countries, and promoting scholarly exchange with Nordic research communities.
Scholarship Website: http://www.nai.uu.se/scholarships/african/

Scholarship Program: Komai Fellowship Program for Southeast Asian Researchers, Japan
Employer: The Hitachi Scholarship Foundation
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Japanese culture, Japanese economy and Japanese industry
Country: Japan
Scholarship Description: The Komai Fellowship Program was inaugurated under the auspices of late Mr. K. Komai, the first chairman of the Hitachi Scholarship Foundation (“Foundation”), to encourage interactions between Southeast Asian countries and Japan in the field of social and cultural science. In this program, fellowships are offered to the scholars and researchers in Southeast Asian countries who have keen interest in conducting the research on Japan such as Japanese culture, Japanese economy and Japanese industry.
Scholarship Website: http://www.utm.my/dvcai/files/2012/06/2013-GUIDE-KOMAI-FELLOWSHIP.pdf

 

 

Undergraduate Scholarships

Scholarship Program: Chancellor’s International Scholarships for Undergraduate or Postgraduate Students
Employer: University of Hertfordshire
Country: UK
Scholarship Description: The University of Hertfordshire is an ambitious and entrepreneurial University with an international vision, putting students at the heart of what we do. A key aspect of the University’s mission is to prepare students for the global economy and to enhance international and multicultural understanding within the University and beyond.In support of this mission, the University of Hertfordshire will offer 130 achievement-based partial international scholarships, worth £2,000 each, to international students taking up a place in 2012/13.
Scholarship Website: http://www.herts.ac.uk/international-students/fees/scholarships/chancellors-international-scholarships.cfm

Scholarship Program: NISF Scholarships for Foreign Students at Japanese Universities
Employer: Nitori International Scholarship Foundation
Country: Japan
Scholarship Description: As a basic rule, the scholarship will be granted from April 2013 until the final year of the enrolled academic course for a maximum of two years (Exception: when the NISF scholarship recipient repeat a year in Japanese university, he/she is disqualified for the further scholarship from then on).
Scholarship Website: http://www.nitori-shougakuzaidan.com/en/02_01.html

Scholarship Program: Bournemouth University Undergraduate International Scholarships
Employer: Bournemouth University
Country: UK
Scholarship Description: This scholarship is offered to international applicants for BU undergraduate (Bachelor) degrees beginning in September 2013. You will be eligible to apply for a BU Undergraduate International Scholarship if you can demonstrate an outstanding academic profile relevant to your course.
Scholarship Website: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/futurestudents/undergraduate/funding/bu_international_scholarship.html

Scholarship Program: MUIS Scholarships for International Students
Employer: Macquarie University
Country: Australia
Scholarship Description: Macquarie University International Scholarship is a Full Scholarship for Undergraduate and Postgraduate studies. The MUIS is available across most courses* to cover a range of full international tuition fees for study on campus at North Ryde in an undergraduate or postgraduate coursework degree.
Scholarship Website: http://www.international.mq.edu.au/scholarships/muis/full

Scholarship Program: Bournemouth University International Foundation Certificate Scholarship
Employer: Bournemouth University
Country: UK
Scholarship Description: This scholarship is offered to students who are studying the BU International Foundation Certificate (IFC) course at Kaplan International College, Bournemouth and who have applied to study an undergraduate course (Bachelors degree) at BU beginning in September 2013. Applicants must demonstrate they already have an outstanding academic and personal profile.
Scholarship Website: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/futurestudents/undergraduate/funding/ifc_scholarship.html

Scholarship Program: International Engineering Scholarships for Women at RMIT University
Employer: RMIT University
Country: Australia
Scholarship Description: If you are a woman commencing engineering studies in 2013 in the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, this scholarship can provide you financial assistance within your first year of study.
Scholarship Website: http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=nhf8jh38e263

Scholarship Program: Google Europe & Israel Scholarships for International Students
Employer: Google
Country: Europe
Scholarship Description: Multiple scholarships will be awarded based on the strength of candidates’ academic performance and demonstrated passion for computer science. A group of Bachelors, Masters, and PhD students will be chosen from the applicant pool.
Scholarship Website: http://www.google.com/studentswithdisabilities-europe/

Scholarship Program: York University International Student Scholarships & Awards
Employer: York University
Country: Canada
Scholarship Description: Established for international undergraduate applicants, recognizing academic excellence, leadership qualities, exceptional community service and individual achievement.
Scholarship Website: http://futurestudents.yorku.ca/sites/all/files/pdf/scholarship/international_scholarship_App.pdf

Scholarship Program: CERN Studentships in Summer for International Students
Employer: CERN
Country: Switzerland
Scholarship Description: The CERN Summer Student Program offers undergraduate students of physics, computing and engineering a unique opportunity to join in the day-to-day work of research teams participating in experiments at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland.
Scholarship Website: https://ert.cern.ch/browse_www/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=1&p_web_page_id=10679

Scholarship Program: Academic Excellence Kent Scholarships for International Students
Employer: University of Kent
Country: UK
Scholarship Description: At Kent we recognise, encourage and reward excellence. We know that you will have worked exceptionally hard to achieve the qualifications needed to secure your place at Kent and we have created a new scholarship, the Kent Scholarship for Academic Excellence, in recognition of this effort.
Scholarship Website: http://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/undergraduate/academic/academicexcellence.html

Scholarship Program: Quota Scholarships for Developing Countries
Employer: Norwegian Government
Country: Norway
Scholarship Description: The main objective of the Quota Scheme is to contribute to capacity building through education that will benefit the home country of the students when they return. The Quota Scheme is also intended to strengthen relations between Norway and the selected countries and thus contribute to internationalisation at Norwegian institutions of higher education. Most universities and university colleges in Norway participate in the Quota scheme
Scholarship Website: http://siu.no/eng/Front-Page/Programme-information/Development-cooperation/Quota-Scheme

Scholarship Program: Undergraduate Scholarships for International Students in Arts at Curtin University
Employer: Curtin University
Country: Australia
Scholarship Description: These scholarships provide supplementary English Language Bridging (ELB) Intensive (10 weeks) courses to the top five students from BiNus and Trisakti who progress to Faculty of Humanities at Curtin in 2013.
Scholarship Website: http://scholarships.curtin.edu.au/scholarships/scholarship.cfm?id=1110

Scholarship Program: International Ambassador Scholarships at University of West London
Employer: University of West London
Country: UK
Scholarship Description: The International Ambassador Scholarship has made a big difference to my life. It reduces the financial burden, but most importantly, it makes me and my family proud. The International Ambassador Scholarship recognises and provides financial support for outstanding students who wish to act as ambassadors for the University of West London.
Scholarship Website: http://www.uwl.ac.uk/international/fees_and_scholarships/International_Ambassador_Scholarships.jsp

Scholarship Program: Sheffield Hallam University International Achievement Scholarships
Employer: Sheffield Hallam University
Country: UK
Scholarship Description: Our International Achievement Scholarships programme is open to students from any non-EU country applying to study at Sheffield Hallam University who will be enrolling in 2012/13 academic year. All full-time undergraduate and postgraduate taught courses are taking part in the programme.
Scholarship Website: http://www.shu.ac.uk/international/scholarships-bursaries/achievement.html

Scholarship Program: ISH/London Met Scholarships for Selected Developing Countries at London Metropolitan University
Employer: London Metropolitan University and International Students House (ISH)
Country: UK
Scholarship Description: This scholarship scheme is run jointly by International Students House (ISH) and London Metropolitan University. International Students House provides accommodation and a varied, multicultural social programme for full-time international students in the centre of London.
Scholarship Website: http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/international/howtoapply/scholarships/postgraduate-scholarships/ishlondonmet.cfm

Scholarship Program: Faculty of Business and Law Undergraduate Equity Scholarship at University of Southern Queensland
Employer: University of Southern Queensland
Country: Australia
Scholarship Description: In 2013, the Faculty of Business and Law will offer a number of Undergraduate Equity Scholarships.
Scholarship Website: http://www.usq.edu.au/scholarships/usq/fobl-undergraduate-equity

Scholarship Program: International Student Merit Scholarships at Ryerson University
Employer: Ryerson University
Country: Canada
Scholarship Description: 7 International Secondary School Student Merit Scholarships, valued at $5,000 each, will be awarded across all programs on a grades-competitive basis (final admission average of 85% / A or equivalent is required for consideration).
Scholarship Website: http://www.ryerson.ca/content/dam/currentstudents/awards/pdfs/schol_ent_international.pdf

Scholarship Program: International Leader of Tomorrow Awards at the University of British Columbia
Employer: The University of British Columbia
Country: Canada
Scholarship Description: Be an international student, who is neither a Canadian citizen nor a permanent resident of Canada, and who will be studying in Canada on a Canadian Study Permit (visa). Demonstrate a level of financial need that would otherwise prevent you from pursuing a UBC degree.
Scholarship Website: https://you.ubc.ca/ubc/vancouver/ilot.ezc

Scholarship Program: The United World College Scholarship at Quest University Organization: Quest University
Country: Canada
Scholarship Description. A number of United World College students call Quest home. Like UWCs, Quest’s international foundation brings a global community of learners together to build cultural bridges and to foster a better understanding of today’s complex world.
Scholarship Website: http://www.questu.ca/admission/applying_to_quest/uwc_students.php

 

 

5. 2013-2014 Call for Applications: New Europe College International Fellowships in Romania

SABIC offers Scholarships for Master’s Students in the field of Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Chemical Engineering, Finance, Human Resource and Communications at Maastricht University inNetherlands

Study Subject(s): Subjects are Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Chemical Engineering, Finance, Human Resource and Communications.
Course Level: This scholarship is available for pursuing master’s degree level.
Scholarship Provider: SABIC
Scholarship can be taken at: Netherlands

Eligibility: SABIC offers a scholarship to a talented master’s student, who has been admitted to one of the master’s programmes of the School of Business and Economics starting in September 2013.
-Candidates applying for this scholarship should have interest in the chemicals industry and B-to-b markets.
-Preferred education areas are supply chain management, business administration, chemical engineering, finance, HR and communications.

Scholarship Open for International Students: International students can apply for this scholarship.

Scholarship Description: SABIC is the Saudi Basic Industries Corporation, one of the world’s leading global manufacturers of chemicals, fertilizers, plastics and metals. We supply these materials to our customers, who use them to make the products on which the world has come to depend such as computers, mobile phones, aircraft interior components, automotive parts, and clean water pipes. At some time, somewhere in the world, a SABIC product impacts your daily life.

Duration of award: Master’s programme at Maastricht University with a maximum of 12 months.

What does it cover? Allowance per month-? 800, Health and liability insurance-? 500,Visa costs -? 600.

Selection criteria: For the scholarship assessment, the Scholarship Committee takes all elements of the application into account, including the level of previous study programmes, academic excellence, motivation, status of the home institution, the connection with the prior study programme, future career plans and the references.

How to Apply: The mode of applying is online.

Scholarship Application Deadline: The deadline for submitting a scholarship application is1 March 2013.

Further Scholarship Information and Application

Scholarships for Research

Scholarship Program: Lightweight Vehicle Structures Research Scholarship at RMIT University in Australia
Employer: RMIT
Level of Study: postgraduate research
Subjects:: Lightweight Vehicle Structures
Country: Australia
Scholarship Description: The School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering along with the AutoCRC are collaborating to investigate research in lightweight vehicle structures. The scholarship is valued at $25,000 per annum (tax free) for 3 years plus $10,000 to support an internship in Germany for the first year.
Scholarship Website: http://www.rmit.edu.au/browse;ID=82oamp6vryc2

Scholarship Program: Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowships for Sub-Saharan African Countries Students in Africa
Employer: The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), in partnership with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Level of Study: Doctoral Dissertation Research
Subjects: Various
Country: Africa
Scholarship Description: The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC), in partnership with the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), is pleased to announce the sixth call for applications for the African Doctoral Dissertation Research Fellowships (ADDRF). The ADDRF Program seeks to facilitate more rigorous engagement of doctoral students in research, strengthen their research skills, and provide them an opportunity for timely completion of their doctoral training.
Scholarship Website: http://www.aphrc.org/download/ADDRFCallenglish2013opt.pdf

Scholarship Program: Research Fellowships in Human Factors at King’s College London in UK
Employer: King’s College London
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Human Factors
Country: UK
Scholarship Description: The Research Fellow will design in detail, manage and conduct the research required by Work Package 2 of the TRANSFoRm project. The objective of this Work Package is to develop a prototype of a decision support system (DSS) for primary care. The postholder will: 1) contribute to the design of the DSS prototype, and 2) evaluate the effectiveness of the final prototype in a controlled experimental study.This post is suitable for a researcher with a postgraduate qualification in human factors and further research/work experience in human factors.
Scholarship Website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=12454

Scholarship Program: AHRC Postgraduate Research Scholarships at University of Sheffield in UK
Employer: The Arts and Humanities Research Council
Level of Study: Postgraduate Research
Subjects: Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, Librarianship, Archives, Record Management & Information Science
Country:
Scholarship Description: The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) supports world-class research that furthers our understanding of human culture and creativity. The University of Sheffield has been awarded substantial AHRC funding for postgraduate research scholarships across the Arts & Humanities and Social Sciences.
Scholarship Website: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/scholarships/ahrc

Scholarship Program: Leeds International Research Scholarships (LIRS) in UK
Employer: University of Leeds
Level of Study: PhD
Subjects: Any
Country: UK
Scholarship Description: Leeds International Research Scholarships are available for high quality international students who will be commencing PhD research study from Session 2013-2014 for study in any Faculty at the University of Leeds. Around 9 awards are Leeds International Research Scholarships (LIRS), are available for high quality international students who will be commencing PhD research study from October 2013. The awards cover the full cost of international fees and provide maintenance (amount to be confirmed).
Scholarship Website: http://scholarships.leeds.ac.uk/

Scholarship Program: Research Position for Developing Countries Students at IRRI in Philippines
Employer: International Rice Research Institute
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Molecular Biology
Country: Philippines
Scholarship Description: The successful candidate will contribute in the development, integration and characterization of multigene constructs in rice. Work on multi-gene vector construction, molecular characterization and analysis for multi-gene transformations in transgenic rice.
Scholarship Website: http://irri.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=category&id=420&Itemid=100219&lang=en

Scholarship Program: Jordan Travel Grant for Research Students at SOAS, University of London in UK
Employer: SOAS, University of London
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Religions
Country: UK
Scholarship Description: Must be enrolled in a PhD degree in the Department of the Study of Religions Notification: The Department’s Jordan Travel Grant Committee will meet in March to decide upon the distribution of the awards, and those who have been granted an award will be informed shortly thereafter. The Jordan Travel Grant is made available to Research students in the Department of the Study of Religions to help with travel expenses incurred by their research projects.
Scholarship Website: http://www.soas.ac.uk/registry/scholarships/w-charitable-foundation-scholarships-msc-environmental-management.html

Scholarship Program: Research Position in Medieval History at University of Oslo in Norway
Employer: University of Oslo, Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History.
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Medieval History
Country: Norway
Scholarship Description: The position will be part of the research project “Graphicacy and Authority in Early Europe: Graphic Signs of Power and Faith in the Early Middle Ages (c. 300-c.1000)”. The project aims to contribute towards a better understanding of non-figural graphic representational signs developing in early medieval Europe by placing them in the contexts of related written discourse, concurrent political culture, and wider socio-cultural milieu.
Scholarship Website: http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/835789/62039?iso=no

Scholarship Program: NAMASEN -Early Stage Research Position in Neurosciences – Neurophysiology in Belgium
Employer: European Commission under the FP7 Marie-Curie PEOPLE program
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Neurosciences – Neurophysiology
Country: Belgium
Scholarship Description: This position largely focuses on conducting mathematical modeling as well as experimental electrophysological studies on in vitro neuronal networks, growing and developing ex vivo on substrate arrays of microelectrodes (MEAs), investigating their spontaneous collective activity, their excitability dynamics over long-time scales, and their active reconfiguration by optogenetic tools.
Scholarship Website: http://www.ua.ac.be/main.aspx?c=.DEPTPERSONEEL&n=104283&ct=104283&e=302205

Scholarship Program: Mellon Fellowships for Dissertation Research in Original Sources in USA
Employer: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Level of Study: Dissertation Research
Subjects: humanities and related social science
Country: USA
Scholarship Description: The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is pleased to offer fellowships generously funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for dissertation research in the humanities or related social sciences in original sources.The program offers about fifteen competitively awarded fellowships a year. Each provides a stipend of $2,000 per month for periods ranging from 9-12 months.
Scholarship Website: http://www.clir.org/fellowships/mellon/mellon.html

Scholarship Program: Research Associate Position at Ch. Charan Singh University in India
Employer: Ch. Charan Singh University
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Creation of Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility (BIF for the promotion of Biology Teaching through Bioinformatics (BTBI) Scheme of BTISet.
Country: India
Scholarship Description: Candidate should have a Ph.D. degree in Bioinformatics/Biotechnology/Genetics and Plant Breeding with adequate experience in the area of Bioinformatics. If a suitable candidate for the post of RA is not available, a JRF/SRF may be appointed. Candidate for the post of JRF/SRF should have Master’s degree in a relevant subject with adequate experience in the area of Bioinformatics. NET/DBT-BINC qualified candidates will be preferred.
Scholarship Website: http://www.ccsuexams.com/ccsuniversity/

Scholarship Program: Advancing Roma Inclusion Grant for International Students, USA
Employer: Open Society Foundation
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Arts and Culture
Country: USA
Scholarship Description: The Arts and Culture Program works at the nexus of arts, culture, human rights, and social advocacy. Through its grants, the program strives to encourage broad-based critical reflection and catalyze social action in parts of the world where open societies are absent or weak, and where the cultural rights of minority groups are endangered. In particular, the program provides grants to projects that aim to promote the cultural inclusion of Roma in Central and Eastern Europe.
Scholarship Website: http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/advancing-roma-inclusion-through-arts-and-culture

Scholarship Program: Conservation Guest Scholarship Program for International Students at GCI
Employer: The Getty Foundation
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: conservation, with an emphasis on the visual arts (including sites, buildings, objects) and the theoretical underpinnings of the field.
Country: USA
Scholarship Description: The Conservation Guest Scholar Program at the Getty Conservation Institute supports new ideas and perspectives in the field of conservation, with an emphasis on the visual arts (including sites, buildings, objects) and the theoretical underpinnings of the field.
Scholarship Website: http://www.getty.edu/foundation/funding/residential/conservation_guest_scholars.html

Scholarship Program: Research Associate Position at UNU-EHS in Germany
Employer: United Nations University – Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Building Resilience to Climate Change: Turning Research into Action
Country: Germany
Scholarship Description: The project will address building resilience in Bangladesh through three groups of activities: expanding knowledge through research, building capacity through a South-North and North-South training program, and translating learning and new capacities into action that will benefit communities affected by climate variability and exposed to longer-term climate change.
Scholarship Website: http://www.bonn.unu.edu/file/get/10461.pdf

Scholarship Program: Senior Research Position in Social Impact of Climate Change at the WASCAL in Burkina Faso
Employer: WASCAL Competence Center
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Social Impact of Climate Change
Country: Burkina Faso
Scholarship Description: The WASCAL project management wishes to appoint an experienced scholar with a strong theoretical and empirical background in the study of social ecological systems (e.g. in political ecology, NRM, vulnerability studies) and population dynamics (e.g. in demography, mobility, rural livelihoods, land use change). The senior researcher will act as leader of the team “Social impact of climate change” at the WASCAL Competence Center in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso where he/she will support an interdisciplinary group of six teams.
Scholarship Website: http://www.zef.de/fileadmin/webfiles/downloads/vacancies/VA_WASCAL/CALL_WASCAL_social_impact.pdf

Scholarship Program: Research Assistant Position in Visual Computation at Radboud University Netherlands
Employer: Radboud University
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Visual Computation
Country: Netherlands
Scholarship Description: The Visual Computation group at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour has funding available for a research assistant to work on studies of visual perception. As a research assistant you will be involved in the Visual Computation group’s research into the neural basis of visual perception, perceptual learning and top-down attention. Research methods include functional brain imaging (fMRI), pattern-based techniques for analysing fMRI data, computational neural network modelling, and other techniques.
Scholarship Website: http://www.ru.nl/newstaff/working_at_radboud/details/details-vacature?recid=509119

Scholarship Program: Barra Foundation International Research Fellowships in American History and Culture, USA
Employer: Barra Foundation
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: history of America and the Atlantic world
Country: USA
Scholarship Description: The Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania each year offer two one-month fellowships to support research in residence in their collections by foreign national scholars of early American history and culture living outside the United States. The fellowships are funded by the Barra Foundation, Inc.These two independent research libraries, adjacent to each other in Center City Philadelphia, have complementary collections capable of supporting research in a variety of fields and disciplines relating to the history of America and the Atlantic world from the 17th through the 19th centuries, as well as Mid-Atlantic regional history to the present.
Scholarship Website: http://www.librarycompany.org/fellowships/barra.htm

Scholarship Program: Greece Scholarships for Australian Students, Greece
Employer: FAAIA and Hellenic Club
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Archaeology, History, literature of Ancient Greece – Byzantine Archaeology, History, and literature Post-Byzantine Greece, Modem Greek Studies including history, literature, and art.
Country: Greece
Scholarship Description: The Friends of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens (FAAIA) and the Hellenic Club announce that applications are open for a scholarship designed to assist a local Canberra scholar whose research requires a period in Greece.
Scholarship Website: http://cass.anu.edu.au/current-students/notices/greece-scholarship-2013-friends-australian-archaeological-institute-athens-

Scholarship Program: African Guest Researchers Scholarship Programme, Sweden
Employer: The Nordic Africa Institute
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Agrarian Change, Property and Resources Conflict, Displacement and Transformation Globalization, Trade and Regional Integration Urban Dynamics
Country: Sweden
Scholarship Description: One important task of the Nordic Africa Institute is to establish and maintain relations with African research communities. This is inter alia carried out through a Guest Researchers’ Scholarship Programme, the aim of which is to provide opportunities for African scholars to pursue their own research projects, thereby indirectly strengthening the academic milieux in African countries, and promoting scholarly exchange with Nordic research communities.
Scholarship Website: http://www.nai.uu.se/scholarships/african/

Scholarship Program: Komai Fellowship Program for Southeast Asian Researchers, Japan
Employer: The Hitachi Scholarship Foundation
Level of Study: Research
Subjects: Japanese culture, Japanese economy and Japanese industry
Country: Japan
Scholarship Description: The Komai Fellowship Program was inaugurated under the auspices of late Mr. K. Komai, the first chairman of the Hitachi Scholarship Foundation (“Foundation”), to encourage interactions between Southeast Asian countries and Japan in the field of social and cultural science. In this program, fellowships are offered to the scholars and researchers in Southeast Asian countries who have keen interest in conducting the research on Japan such as Japanese culture, Japanese economy and Japanese industry.
Scholarship Website: http://www.utm.my/dvcai/files/2012/06/2013-GUIDE-KOMAI-FELLOWSHIP.pdf

 

 

Scholarships for Postdoctoral Students

Scholarship Program: Postdoctoral Fellowship Position in Zeolite Membrane Development at TU/e in Netherlands
Employer: The Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
Level of Study: Postdoctoral
Subjects: Zeolite Membrane Development
Country: Netherlands
Scholarship Description: We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic postdoctoral research fellow with a PhD degree in inorganic chemistry or chemical engineering, preferably with expertise in the synthesis of zeolite membranes and/or in membrane synthesis and testing. The candidates should have good analytical and communicative skills, should speak English fluently, should have a self-supporting working style and the ability to work in a team.
Scholarship Website: http://jobs.tue.nl/en/job/1-postdoctoral-fellow-position-zeolite-membrane-development-158105.html

Scholarship Program: The Oxford-Princeton Global Leaders Fellowships Programme, UK
Employer: University College, Oxford and Princeton University
Level of Study: Postdoctoral
Subjects: politics and political economy
Country: UK
Scholarship Description: Applications are invited from nationals of non-OECD countries for a number of two-year fellowships to work on global governance and the role of developing and emerging countries in the world political economy. Up to six such fellowships will be awarded to start in September 2013, for a year’s study at the Global Economic Governance Programme, University College, Oxford followed by a year at Niehaus Centre for Globalization and Governance, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.
Scholarship Website: http://glf.univ.ox.ac.uk/

Scholarship Program: Postdoctoral Research Position in Political Science at Stockholm University in Sweden
Employer: Stockholm University
Level of Study: Postdoctoral
Subjects: Political Science
Country: Sweden
Scholarship Description: ost-doctoral researcher position in Political Science at the Department of Political Science. The position is a one-year full-time appointment, and involves 80 percent research and 20 percent teaching. The expected starting date is July 1, 2013 or as agreed. Stockholm University strives to be a work place that is free from discrimination and with equal opportunities for all.
Scholarship Website: http://www.su.se/english/about/vacancies/post-doctoral-positions/post-doctoral-researcher-position-in-political-science-1.102323

Scholarship Program: Postdoctoral Position in Astronomy at Radboud University in Netherlands
Employer: Radboud University
Level of Study: Postdoctoral
Subjects: Astronomy
Country: Netherlands
Scholarship Description: The Department of Astrophysics at Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) invites applications for a postdoctoral position to work in the area of accreting compact objects. You will work with Dr Elmar Koerding on the coupling between accretion flows and jet formation. You will use theoretical methods and observational multi-wavelength data.
Scholarship Website: http://www.ru.nl/newstaff/working_at_radboud/details/details-vacature?recid=525240

Scholarship Program: Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Positions in Machine Learning and Data Mining in Saudi Arabia
Employer: King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Level of Study: Postdoctoral
Subjects: Machine Learning and Data Mining
Country: Saudi Arabia
Scholarship Description: Candidates need to hold an earned Ph.D. (or be near completion) in computer science or in a related field with good programming skills in C/C++/Java/Matlab. Successful candidates are expected to be self-motivated and have a good publication record (at least have one paper accepted by premier conferences or journals like KDD, NIPS, ICML, IJCAI, AAAI, SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, WWW, SIGIR, TKDE, TKDD, etc.) and good command of English.
Scholarship Website: http://mine.kaust.edu.sa/Pages/JoinUs.aspx

Scholarship Program: Postdoctoral Research Position in Immunology at Hasselt University in Belgium
Employer: Hasselt University
Level of Study: Postdoctoral
Subjects: Immunology
Country: Belgium
Scholarship Description: The candidate will work in frame of an interuniversitary program named “T-TIME” (IUAP funded). The IUAP network groups Belgian research groups with excellent track record in T-cell immunology and aims to provide in depth knowledge of T-cell regulation and tolerance. As one of the partners, BIOMED will focus on autoimmune T-cell responses and immunosenescence in the context of multiple sclerosis. The successful candidate will also be involved in the guidance of PhD students working in frame of this project.
Scholarship Website: http://www.uhasselt.be/vacancies_detail?taal=04&vacid=351

Scholarship Program: Wellcome Trust-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Postdoctoral Fellowships
Employer: MIT faculty sponsor(s) and Wellcome Trust.
Level of Study: Postdoctoral
Subjects: biology/medicine and mathematics, engineering, computer, physical or chemical sciences.
Country: UK and USA
Scholarship Description: These awards are open to individuals with a relevant connection to the European Economic Area. If you have already spent a year or more training or working in an academic or research institution in the United States, you are not eligible to apply to this scheme. This scheme offers opportunities for postdoctoral scientists to undertake research at the interfaces between biology/medicine and mathematics, engineering, computer, physical or chemical sciences, firstly at MIT and then at a UK institution.
Scholarship Website: http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomedical-science/Funding-schemes/Fellowships/International-fellowships/WTX054661.htm

Scholarship Program: Postdoctoral Position in Applied Psychology at University of Vienna in Austria
Employer: University of Vienna
Level of Study: Postdoctoral
Subjects: Applied Psychology
Country: Austria
Scholarship Description: We offer a position for an university assistant (post doc) at the Research group of Developmental Psychology of the Department of Applied Psychology: Health, Development, Enhancement and Intervention.
Scholarship Website: https://univis.univie.ac.at/ausschreibungstellensuche/flow/bew_ausschreibung-flow?_flowExecutionKey=_c282DD212-CE19-6F31-45A8-E0403E47DF00_k377DA5FE-BC84-DCA1-CF7D-6C663A911E40&tid=37697.28

Scholarship Program: Postdoctoral Positions for Bioinformatician at Center for New Technologies (University of Warsaw)
Employer: Foundation for Polish Science
Level of Study: Postdoctoral
Subjects: Bioinformatics
Country: Poland
Scholarship Description: The Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology at the Center for New Technologies (University of Warsaw), headed by Dr. Krzysztof Ginalski, invites applications for Post Doc. Position will be available immediately as part of the TEAM program funded by the Foundation for Polish Science, entitled “Application of systems biology to study important processes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae”.The aim of the project is to use a rational combination of high-throughput theoretical and experimental methods to study several important processes in eukaryotic organisms including methylation, nucleic acid metabolism and proteome dynamics.
Scholarship Website: http://cent.uw.edu.pl/pl/node/519

Scholarship Program: REACH-Informatics Fellowships Program for East African Citizens, 2013/15
Employer: The Regional East African Center for Health Informatics (REACH-Informatics)
Level of Study: postdoctoral
Subjects: health information technology
Country: Kenya (Africa) and Indiana, (USA)
Scholarship Description: The Regional East African Center for Health Informatics (REACH-Informatics) in Eldoret, Kenya, was created in 2009 and builds on the long-term collaboration between Indiana and Moi Universities and the global informatics leadership of the Regenstrief Institute. REACH-Informatics is offering a 2-year post-doctoral fellowship aimed at developing informatics expertise to implement and use health information technology to enhance research and improve health care quality, efficiency, and outcomes. Fellows will spend 1 year at Indiana University in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA to complete classroom work.
Scholarship Website: https://sites.google.com/site/reachinformatics/

Scholarship Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships in Molecular Genetics / Grain Quality at IRRI, Philippines
Employer: International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
Level of Study: Postdoctoral
Subjects: Molecular Genetics / Grain Quality
Country: Philippines
Scholarship Description: The successful candidate will be in close collaboration with breeders, molecular marker application specialists and cereal chemists, unravel genetic and molecular basis of defined high value quality traits.
Scholarship Website: http://irri.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=category&id=420&Itemid=100219&lang=en

Scholarship Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships in Plant Breeding at IRRI, Philippines
Employer: IRRI
Level of Study: Postdoctoral
Subjects: Plant Breeding
Country: Philippines
Scholarship Description: The successful candidate will work on the variety development for drought tolerance, drought plus submergence tolerance, co-ordinates testing of drought tolerant lines at partner sites. She/he participates in the development of the near isogenic lines and their combinations for major drought grain yield QTLs and oversees the development of drought tolerant version of popular high yielding but drought susceptible varieties.
Scholarship Website: http://irri.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=category&id=420&Itemid=100219&lang=en

Scholarship Program: Newton International Fellowships, UK
Employer: The British Academy and the Royal Society.
Level of Study: post-doctoral
Subjects: courses offered by the institutions
Country: UK
Scholarship Description: The long-term aim of the scheme is to build a global pool of research leaders and encourage long-term international collaboration with the UK.The Newton International Fellowships scheme is run by The British Academy and the Ro