ESRC UK in a Changing Europe Senior Fellowship

As part of the UK in a Changing Europe portfolio, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) has announced a fourth round of the UK in a Changing Europe (UKICE) senior fellowship programme.

ESRC are looking to fund between eight and 10 UKICE senior fellows to analyse the UK’s changing geopolitical landscape, in key areas such as UK-EU relations and the evolving security and economic environment.

Fellows will provide expertise on important aspects of the UK’s changing geopolitical landscape, including the implications for the UK and the wider European continent in areas such as trade, foreign policy, and security, covering a range of disciplines such as economics, law, politics and international relations.

Within that broad remit, they welcome submissions in the following areas:

• European security
  • European security cooperation including NATO and EU arrangements, and the UK’s involvement in or contribution to these
  • the security environment in Europe and its neighbouring states, including risks posed by third countries.
• UK-European relations (broadly defined) and the impact on relationships with third countries
• energy and food security
• comparative politics
  • politics of the European Union and its evolution and relationship to the domestic politics of member states
  • British politics post-Brexit including the devolved administrations and the UK constitution and devolution.
• border and cross-border issues
  • migration and its regulation and management, and public attitudes towards population movements across the many different categories of migrants
  • transnational issues, for example climate change, just transitions, net zero, mass displacement, and how the UK manages these with European partners
  • Northern Ireland and the management of the border with the Republic of Ireland.
• international trade and regulation
  • UK economic relationships with the EU, Europe and third countries, including by sector, and the trade and economic agreements that govern this
  • economics of UK-European relationships and their impacts, and the interdependence of economic, trade and governance systems
  • UK economy, including the macroeconomic impacts of Brexit and the pandemic, the changing economic geography of the UK, ‘levelling up’, the economic and labour market implications of the end of free movement between the EU and the UK, and the introduction of the post-Brexit immigration system.
• public attitudes
  • the UK’s changing social landscape, particularly with respect to class, gender and ethnicity, and its impact on public policy and the UK’s European position
  • public attitudes and identities, including UK perceptions of European countries and their perceptions of the UK.

This funding opportunity is open to high-quality candidates from a variety of academic disciplines who can demonstrate:

• an outstanding track record and significant experience in designing, managing and conducting research of the highest quality
• the ability to disseminate research findings within academia and to government, policymakers, civil society, business and the general public, and achieve impact.

Researchers are invited to apply from anywhere in the world. However, you must have the strong support of and affiliation with an eligible research organisation in the UK to host them if they are successful.

Grants will be available to both established and non-established members of staff of eligible UK research organisations, in line with standard ESRC eligibility requirements.

Fellowships will last for up to 30 months and be for a maximum of £500,000 at 100% full economic cost.

Fellowships will be expected to start between 1 October 2022 and 31 December 2022.

Further information can be found here: UK in a Changing Europe senior fellowships: round four – UKRI