UK Newton post-doctoral (and equivalent) early-career fellowship

New Round of Newton International Fellowships Announced

A new round of Newton International Fellowships - an initiative to fund research collaborations and improve links between UK and overseas researchers - has now opened. The Newton International Fellowships are funded by the British Academy and the Royal Society and aim to attract the most promising early-career post-doctoral researchers from overseas in the fields of the humanities, the natural, physical and social sciences.

The Fellowships enable researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution with the aim of fostering long-term international collaborations. Newton Fellows will receive an allowance of £24,000 to cover subsistence and up to £8,000 to cover research expenses in each year of the Fellowship. A one-off relocation allowance of up to £2,000 is also available. In addition, Newton Fellows may be eligible for follow-up funding of up to £6,000 per annum for up to 10 years following completion of the Fellowship to support activities which will help build long-term links with the UK. The scheme is open to post-doctoral (and equivalent) early-career researchers working outside the UK who do not hold UK citizenship.

Applications are to be made via the Royal Society’s online application system which is available at https://e-gap.royalsociety.org/

The closing date for applications is Wednesday 10 April 2013. Further details are available from the Newton International Fellowships website: www.newtonfellowships.org  

applied philosophy uk phd fellowships

SOCIETY FOR APPLIED PHILOSOPHY

Doctoral Scholarships

The Society for Applied Philosophy intends to offer two scholarships for doctoral work in applied philosophy* in a UK university (subject to suitable candidates coming forward). The level of the award will be up to £8,000 per scholarship and will be held for one year**. Applicants must have applied for AHRC funding where eligible (either in the open studentship competition or via a block grant holder***), and the SAP scholarship will only be awarded when the AHRC has informed candidates of its decisions. In addition, applicants must declare all other sources of funding they are receiving and whether they are awaiting a decision from a further source/s to support their doctoral research (fees and maintenance).  The closing date for 2012 applications is Monday 6th August (applications for 2012 can be submitted from 1 May 2012) . Applicants are responsible for ensuring that complete applications, including references, arrive by the deadline.

*applications can be made by students studying in any department within a UK university undertaking doctoral research in applied philosophy.

**successful applicants may apply for a second year of funding.  Applications will be considered alongside all other applications made in that year.

***applicants may be ineligible for AHRC funding in some year because a block grant is available only in other years and the existence of the block grant prevents them for applying in open competition.

Applicants must send:,

• a curriculum vitae (no more than 2 sides of A4),
• an outline of the proposed research (no more than 500 words),
• evidence of an application to the AHRC or a statement explaining lack of eligibility,
• a statement testifying that they have no other source of funding,
• and evidence that they have been accepted onto an appropriate Ph.D. programme

Together these items constitute one application, please send (in total) three copies of your application (each application should be independently stapled or paperclipped in the above order) to the postal address below.

S.A.P. Doctoral Scholarship
C/o Jon Cameron
RIISS
19 College Bounds
University of Aberdeen
AB24 3UG
SCOTLAND

In addition:

To be considered, applicants must also ask two academic referees to write directly to the above address providing references in support of their application (in total, three copies of each reference are required).


The following further notes should also be considered:


1. In cases where applicants have funding from other sources the SAP grant may be reduced to ensure that the applicant’s overall funding does not exceed the level of a full AHRC grant.

2. Applicants who are not eligible for AHRC funding are expected to have applied for any other sources of funding for which they are eligible. They should list the sources of funding that they have applied for in their application.

3. Incomplete applications, including those with missing references, will not be considered.

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Society for Applied Philosophy
admin@appliedphil.org

King's College London more than 6 fully funded PhD positions in philosophy

SIX fully-funded PhD positions in Philosophy at King's College London

- The Department of Philosophy at King's College London is delighted to
announce SIX KCL - AHRC studentships for UK/EU students in philosophy for
2012/3.

- Candidates may also apply for the following:
* Medieval Studies KCL Graduate School studentship (to include Medieval
philosophy) UK/EU only.
* International PhD doctoral award - for applicants applying to study
jointly with a King's partner institution (National University of Singapore,
Hong Kong University, Humboldt University (Berlin) or Stuttgart University,
or where they have an agreed secondary supervisor at our other strategic
partner institution, the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill).)
       > http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/study/Funding/gradfund.aspx

* Further studentships are available (UK, EU and international/overseas) via
the KCL Graduate School:
    > http://www.kcl.ac.uk/study/pg/funding/sources/pgr.aspx

The deadline for applications for these awards -for both, programmes and
funding-  is February 1st 2012: all application materials must be received
by this date.

*  In addition, the Department of Philosophy has funds available, up to
£12,000 annually, to assist graduate students in the Department:
       >
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/study/funding/sorabji.aspx
       >
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/study/funding/stebbing.aspx

How to apply
Full details of how to apply can be found via the above links, and the
Department of Philosophy website:
       > http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/study/pgr/index.aspx

Queries?
* Contact the Centre for Arts & Sciences Admissions at King's:
casa_pgr@kcl.ac.uk
* Contact the Department of Philosophy via: philosophy@kcl.ac.uk

Messages to the list are archived at http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/philos-l.html.

Discussions should be moved to chora: enrol via
http://listserv.liv.ac.uk/archives/chora.html.

Other philosophical resources on the Web can be found at http://www.liv.ac.uk/pal.

African Humanities Fellowships - Nov 1 deadline !

African Humanities Program  - American Council of Learned Societies  LINK HERE November 1, 2011  Deadline !! Fellowship Details Applicants must be nationals and residents of a country in sub-Saharan Africa, with a current affiliation at an institution in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda. Funding is available for dissertation completion and for postdoctoral research and writing. Applicants for Dissertation-Completion Fellowships should be in the final year of writing the dissertation at a university in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, or Uganda. Dissertation-Completion Fellowships are not available in South Africa. Applicants for Early Career Postdoctoral Fellowships must be working in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda and must have completed the Ph.D. no more than five years ago. Projects must be in the humanities and must be carried out in sub-Saharan Africa. AHP fellowships may not be used for travel outside the continent. Completed applications must be submitted by November 1, 2011. ACLS encourages the submission of applications by email toahp@acls.org; alternatively, applications may be mailed to the AHP/ACLS offices in New York. Applicants will be notified of competition results in the spring of 2012. For further details on eligibility, submission of applications, and selection criteria, see 2011-12 Competition Announcement (PDF) as well as Instructions and Application materials (at right).   The African Humanities Program (AHP) seeks to revitalize the humanities in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda through fellowship competitions and meetings associated with them. The AHP is funded by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Fellowship awards to promising African scholars are the centerpiece of the African Humanities Program. Approximately 40 such fellowships will be awarded annually. An initiative to publish the best manuscripts produced under the terms of AHP fellowships is now being established.  All fellows will be encouraged to submit their completed manuscripts to the African Humanities Series, which will be a cooperative venture between AHP and a major African university press. The AHP organizes meetings in Africa in cooperation with host institutions to publicize the fellowship program and to discuss new trends in humanities research. In the past three years of the program, meetings were held at universities in Ghana (University of Ghana-Legon), in Nigeria (University of Ibadan, Bayero University Kano, and Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria), in South Africa (University of the Witwatersrand and the University of Johannesburg in Johannesburg, the East London campus of Ft. Hare University, the University of the Western Cape and University of Cape Town in Cape Town), in Tanzania (the University of Dar es Salaam), and in Uganda (Makerere University in Kampala). At the meetings senior African scholars from a variety of disciplines advise on the fine-tuning of the fellowship programs and lead workshops in application preparation. Younger scholars learn about the AHP fellowship program, gain practical advice on the application process, and have the opportunity to discuss new directions in the humanities and standards of quality in humanities research. Through the activities of the African Humanities Program, ACLS promotes local and international cooperation among humanities scholars at all stages of career, with the aim of developing a self-sustaining. continent-wide network of African humanities scholars.     The African Humanities Program is inspired by a commitment to the humanities as a core component of higher education and research in Africa, essential to progress and development. The ACLS defines the humanities as the study of human cultures, languages, and histories through the use of qualitative approaches. Among the disciplines contributing to humanities scholarship are anthropology, archaeology, history, studies of the fine and performing arts, musicology, languages and linguistics, literature studies, religious studies, and philosophy.

2 fully funded PhD positions in Philosophy - Univ. of Groningen

TWO FULLY FUNDED Philosophy PhD-POSITIONS

at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.

Deadline for applications: November 16, 2011.

Applications are open for research in any of the four principal research areas of the Faculty: History of philosophy, Ethics, Theoretical philosophy, and Practical philosophy.

The University of Groningen offers a salary that will range between € 2,042 gross per month in the first year up to a maximum of € 2,612 gross per month in the fourth year. The PhD position is for a period of four years, starting on January 1, 2012 and conditional on a positive evaluation after one year.

Applications for should consist of:

- An application letter with motivation
- Curriculum vitae, including academic qualifications, grades, a list of publications if applicable, and the name and contact details of a referee

- A research proposal (maximum 1500 words) that includes research questions, methodology and research plan.

Suitable candidates have, or will soon have completed, an M.A. or an M.Sc. in philosophy, can play an active role in the research community of the Faculty of Philosophy and are fluent in English.

Information about how to apply can be found at:

http://www.rug.nl/corporate/vacatures/jobOpportunitiesRUG


Since its foundation in 1614, the University of Groningen has enjoyed an international reputation as a dynamic and innovative center of higher education. The Faculty of Philosophy is a rich and lively community of excellent lecturers and researchers. The faculty has an excellent reputation, both in research and in teaching, and has a strong international orientation. For more information about the faculty see: http://www.rug.nl/philosophy

University of Groningen

Faculty of Philosophy

Oude Boteringestraat 52, 9712 GL Groningen

050-3636165/050-3636161

http://www.rug.nl/staff/martin.van.hees/research

Progress in Medicine Conference Bristol April 2010

"Progress in Medicine"

Bristol, 13-15 April 2010

An interdisciplinary conference on the nature of progress in medicine, combining perspectives from philosophy, history, medical science, and clinical practice.

Conference homepage: events/progress_in_medicine/index.html>

Principal Speakers:

• Derek Bolton (KCL) - “Defining illness in psychiatry and in general medicine”
• Matthew Broome (Warwick) - "Medicine as applied physiology, psychiatry as applied neuroscience"
• Raffaella Campaner and Maria Carla Galavotti (Bologna) - "Evidence and the assessment of causal relations in the health sciences"
• K. Codell Carter (Brigham Young University) - “What progress are we now to expect in medicine?”
• Nancy Cartwright (LSE and UC San Diego) - "The long road from 'it works somewhere' to 'it will work for us'”
• Sir Iain Chalmers (UK Cochrane Centre) and Ulrich Tröhler (Bern) - “Medical historical textbooks and review articles fail to take account of progress in historical research”
• Andrew Cunningham (Cambridge) - "The origins of the concept of progress in medicine, ca. 16th and 17th centuries"
• Bill Fulford (Warwick) - "Neuroscience and values: from theory to practice in mental health"
• Sander Greenland (UC Los Angeles) - "How much progress in medicine is illusory?"
• Ilana Löwy (Inserm, CNRS, Paris-Sud 11) - Prenatal diagnosis: Does the improvement of diagnostic techniques constitute progress?"
• Mark Parascandola (U.S. National Institutes of Health) - "Epistemic
risk: Empirical science and the fear of being wrong"
• John Pickstone (Manchester) - tba
• David Wootton (York) - "Progress in science and medicine---some puzzles solved"
• Michael Worboys (Manchester) - "Chlamydia: A disease without a history"
• John Worrall (LSE) - "Evidence in medicine: getting back to the Hill top"

Full list of speakers and papers:

Registration now open: department/events/progress_in_medicine/registration.html>

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