NINE DTP Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme
ESRC Northern Ireland and North East Doctoral Training Partnership (NINE DTP) – Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme
The 2024 competition for four ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships available via a competitive process led by the NINE DTP. The Fellowships will commence on 1 October 2024.
The full details of the scheme, including the Application Form, Call Specification, FAQs and details on how to apply are available on the NINEDTP website at https://www.ninedtp.ac.uk/postdoctoral-fellowship-scheme/ . It is also being advertised nationally by the ESRC.
Although most eligibility requirements are being carried over from previous years, a key difference is that now applicants may have received their PhD from any UK Research Organisation (previously only Research Organisations that were part of a DTP or CDT were permitted). As in previous years, applicants must have no more than 12 months active postdoctoral experience** and must have passed their viva (or received minor corrections) by the application deadline.
**Please note updated guidance relating to a small number of potential applicants to the ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunity whose eligibility has been affected by the later closing date for this year’s competition. In previous years, the closing date has been on or around 23 March, so there may be candidates who did not have their viva voce in time to be eligible for the 2023 competition but will now have more than 12 months of active postdoctoral experience by this year’s closing date of 16 May 2024. In these specific circumstances only, NINE DTP can offer some discretion over the period of active postdoctoral experience for an applicant to be eligible, up to a maximum of 14 months.
The deadline for applications to NINEDTP is 16:00 on 16 May 2024. In a change from previous years (and in recognition of the later application deadline), there will no longer be a pre-submission Expression of Interest stage or demand management at the department level. Applicants must send complete applications to the NINE DTP office (contact.nine@durham.ac.uk) by the deadline.
It is anticipated that ESRC PDF positions at NINEDTP institutions will be highly competitive.
The total award for each Fellowship will include: Fellow’s salary costs; Indirect costs; Estate costs; up to £10,000 of other costs (to include costs such as fieldwork, travel and subsistence, conference attendance, training, and mentoring costs, for example). ESRC will meet 80% fEC on the proposals submitted. Costs must be justified and linked to the development of the Fellow.
A diverse and inclusive applicant pool in encouraged and ask Departments/Schools to emphasise this within their own dissemination of the Fellowship scheme.