{"id":12379,"date":"2021-10-25T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/?p=12379"},"modified":"2021-10-25T11:00:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T10:00:54","slug":"ba-jsps-postdoctoral-fellowship-programme-for-overseas-researchers-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2021\/10\/25\/ba-jsps-postdoctoral-fellowship-programme-for-overseas-researchers-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"BA\/JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme for Overseas Researchers 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme for Overseas Researchers is for early career researchers who wish to conduct research in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme provides funding for early career postdoctoral researchers to conduct cooperative research with leading research groups in Japanese universities and other institutions, under the guidance of a host. The aim of the programme is to help researchers advance their own research while contributing to the progress of research in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The British Academy is an overseas nominating authority for this scheme, which is funded entirely by the JSPS. The British Academy nominates a designated number of candidates each year. Researchers in all fields of the humanities and social sciences are eligible to apply.<\/p>\n<p>Each candidate for the Fellowship must:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Be ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands.<\/li>\n<li>Hold a doctorate degree when the Fellowship goes into effect, which must have been received within six years prior to the award, or be scheduled to receive a doctorate degree before the Fellowship goes into effect.<\/li>\n<li>Have arranged in advance a research plan with his\/her host researcher in Japan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Host researchers<\/strong> in Japan must be employed full-time or classified as being employed full-time (excluding Jokyo assistant professors and Joshu research assistants) at a university or research institution, eligible to apply for funding from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology under the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Program (Kakenhi) and approved by JSPS as an appropriate institution for hosting young overseas researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Awards are for a period of between 12 months minimum to 24 months maximum. The JSPS provides the following support:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A round-trip air ticket for the Fellow<\/li>\n<li>A monthly maintenance stipend of \u00a5362,000<\/li>\n<li>A settling-in allowance of \u00a5200,000<\/li>\n<li>A research Grant (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research) for cooperative research-related expenses, applied for by the Japanese Host Researcher through his\/her Host Institution.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Applications must be be submitted online by the deadline of<\/strong> <strong>8 December 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme for Overseas Researchers is for early career researchers who wish to conduct research&#8230; <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/2021\/10\/25\/ba-jsps-postdoctoral-fellowship-programme-for-overseas-researchers-2021\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12380,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12379\/revisions\/12380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/nubsstaffblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}