Stipendien, Forschungspreise und Förderprogramme

King’s College Cambridge

Mervyn King Research Fellowship in Economic History

King’s College Cambridge is delighted to launch the Mervyn King Research Fellowship and invites applications from those working in all areas of Economic History including the History of Economics.

Applications are welcome from all those who wish to undertake a major project over the course of the four years of this Fellowship. The brief is deliberately wide to encourage creative thinking, and applicants should not unduly restrict themselves to any single academic discipline nor necessarily focus on a traditionally identified paradigm.
The ideal candidate for this Research Fellowship will have a strong background in a relevant area of work and be completing or have completed recently an outstanding doctoral thesis. It is not a requirement that the candidate’s doctoral studies or the work that they submit in support of their application should have concerned this topic specifically, but candidates will be expected to show in their applications how their plans for their future work relate to the work that they have already done. The successful candidate will be expected to engage broadly with the whole college community.


It is the aim of King’s Research Fellowships to develop important fields of study that are currently too narrowly restricted in their practitioners and/or their objects of analysis. For this reason, candidates are encouraged to propose creative and innovative projects which will not only make an important contribution to the specific area of interest, but also strengthen the intellectual framework of the humanities as a whole.
The successful candidate will join a lively research community which includes Research Fellows and College Research Associates as well as Fellows who hold University posts. This includes a number of Fellows working in Economics, History, and Politics which will potentially align with the successful candidate’s project, and a wide range of other subjects which will provide both challenge to and stimulus for novel ways of approaching it. Research Fellows also engage with colleagues from the Collegiate University as a whole in the pursuit of their project.
A Research Fellowship is a postdoctoral position tenable for up to four years. Applications are welcome from graduates of any university. Candidates will usually have completed their PhD or equivalent qualification, but must not have undertaken more than 2 years postdoctoral work or work outside of academia by 1 October 2025 (i.e., an applicants PhD cannot have been granted before 30 September 2023).
Research Fellows are members of the Governing Body, with the full privileges of all Fellows. These include all meals, a degree of financial support for expenses associated with research, and the possibility of an office and accommodation in College properties. Currently, the stipend of a Research Fellow is £24,126 prior to the award of doctorate, or £26,807 after award of doctorate, rising each year to a maximum of £30,912. An accommodation allowance of £3,530 is paid to all Stipendiary Research Fellows, and an additional living-out allowance of up to £4,000, depending on income, is available to those Fellows not living in college-owned accommodation.
In addition to pursuing research, a Research Fellow is required to live in Cambridge or close by and to participate in College life and activity. Although these are research posts, Research Fellows are encouraged to take advantage of opportunities to undertake a small amount of University or College teaching, or tutorial duties. Such activity is remunerated separately and can make an important contribution to the development of an academic career. During the course of the Fellowship, a Research Fellow may be granted an intermission for one or two years to take up a temporary position either in Cambridge or elsewhere provided that doing so would be consistent with the Research Fellow’s career development.
The closing date for applications, including references, is 9 am on Monday 16 September 2024. Further information about the College may be obtained from the College website<https://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/>.
Eligibility
Graduates of any university are eligible. Candidates will usually have completed their PhD but must not have undertaken more than 2 years of postdoctoral work by 1 October 2025 (i.e. your PhD cannot have been granted before 30 September 2023).
The college has a responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to live and work in the UK. If you do not have the right to work in the UK already, any offer we make will be conditional upon you gaining it. The College will give informal advice and assistance but ultimately it will be the responsibility of the candidate to fulfill the necessary visa requirements and to obtain a visa.
Dates:
●       The closing date for application is 9 am UK local time) on Monday 16 September 2024. Applications received after this date and time will not be considered.
●       Long-listed candidates will be notified in late-September and will be expected to provide within 5-days a writing sample which they believe best represent their talents. This should be no more than 20,000 words and may include a thesis chapters or publications.
●       Short-listed candidates will be notified late November/early December, and will be invited for interview on either Wednesday 15th or Thursday 16th January 2025. Please ensure that you will be available for interview on these dates, as it is not possible to arrange other times for interviews.
●       The Fellowship will begin on 1 October 2025.
Application:
To apply use the following link to create an application:
https://app.casc.cam.ac.uk/fas_live/mervynking/
Before the closing date, applicants must complete all sections of the online Fellowship Application and upload onto the website (PDF only) the following:
●       A curriculum vitae (of no more than three A4 sides) including details of higher education, degrees awarded, positions held and publications.
●       A document of no more than 1,200 words in length, excluding bibliography, references, footnotes, endnotes, describing your current research and the research you propose to undertake during the Fellowship.
Applicants must also arrange for three letters of recommendation to be uploaded onto the site in PDF format by the closing date of the competition, 9 am (UK local time) on Monday 16 September 2024. As soon as a referee is nominated, an email can be sent through the FAS website requesting a reference. You can request references individually before submitting your application. It is wise to nominate referees well before the closing date so they have sufficient time to submit a reference.
·         In the letter of recommendation, suggestions for impartial expert readers, to whom work might be sent if the candidate is long-listed, would be very welcome.
·         It is the duty of the candidate to ensure that the referees submit the references before the closing date.
Your referees will need to provide their references through the FAS website. They will be sent an email containing a link to do this. Referees unable to submit references electronically via the FAS website may e-mail Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein., the competition administrator.
Please note that all application materials must be in English.
The application will not be considered in the competition until it has been submitted and all references have been received. An email will be sent once this has occurred.
Further questions:
If you have any further questions, please e-mail Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein.<mailto:Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein.>

Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS)

Advertisement of 2 Scholarships for Doctoral Studies (October 2025 - September 2029) in the Doctoral Program “Ancient Languages and Texts”

 The Graduate School Scholarship Program (GSSP) of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) is offering two (2) doctoral scholarships to earn a PhD within the framework of “Ancient Languages and Texts” doctoral program of the BerGSAS, https://www.berliner-antike-kolleg.org/en/bergsas/index.html

We welcome applications from highly qualified graduates from the fields of:

Ancient History, History of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages; Ancient Oriental Languages; Ancient Philology: Greek (with Byzantine Greek) and Latin (Classical Latin, Middle and Modern Latin); Egyptology (with Coptology); Iranian Studies; Jewish Studies; Protestant Theology (with Old Testament, New Testament, Church History); Religious Studies; Roman Law.

Applicants must hold an outstanding master's degree (MA, MSt, or MSc) or equivalent in one of the aforementioned disciplines or be very close to completion.

Objectives of the doctoral program “Ancient Languages and Texts”

The program “Ancient Languages and Texts” (ALT), https://www.berliner-antike-kolleg.org/en/bergsas/programme/alt/index.html focuses on the written heritage of ancient cultures which includes literary works as well as documentary texts like inscriptions and papyri. Also, research is carried out into phenomena of mediality such as the interaction between texts and pictorial representations. In this line of inquiry, traditional philological methods are being combined with historical and cultural issues. In addition to that, particular emphasis is placed on theories and approaches of modern literary studies and linguistics. Topics and methods in the digital humanities and computer philology also belong to the program ALT. Thus, the program is characterized by a plurality of research methods and a wide understanding of the concept of ‘a text’. Doctoral researchers are expected to participate in Digital Humanities training offered by BerGSAS. Applicants are be expected to have sufficient command of the relevant ancient languages for their dissertation project.

Who can apply?

• The call is open ONLY to applicants who are not German citizens
• Applicants must not have completed a PhD previously
• The MA degree must not have been completed before March 1, 2019
• Applicants must not have resided in Germany continuously before December 1, 2023

Duration of the scholarship and funding

The doctoral scholarship is available from October 2025 (winter semester 2025/26) for four years, subject to a satisfactory annual progress review. In accordance with DAAD guidelines, the scholarship holders receive a stipend of 1,300 Euros a month, a travel allowance, payments towards health, accident and liability insurance cover, allowances for study and research (and, where applicable, rent and family allowances) as well as financial support for a pre-sessional German language course. Plus, material resources and supervision allowance of 1,000 Euros per year, administered by the BerGSAS.

Application process

Applications must be submitted via the BerGSAS portal by 1 November 2024, 00:00 CEWT, quoting the reference 2025-ALT-BerGSAS-GSSP. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered.

The application procedure takes place in two stages:

Application documents

Application deadline

The deadline for your application is 1 November 2024 at 00:00 CEWT. The selection committee will not consider incomplete or late applications.

 For further inquiries please contact the coordinator of the doctoral program:

Dr. Carmen Marcks-Jacobs, carmen. Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein.

• The New Polities project studies political thought in Late Antiquity (ca. 300-900 AD). Rather than considering this as the time when the ancient city-state gave way to monarchy and when rationality became subordinate to religious texts, the project argues that we see in Late Antiquity a wide range of new religious and political communities that adopted and modified classical ideas and thus developed a rich political thought. By studying sources in other languages than just Latin and Greek, New Polities will uncover neglected traditions of political thought from the first millennium AD, from the Roman Empire to the Abbasids, Byzantines and Carolingians.
• The four PhD students will write a doctoral dissertation on a topic related to the project’s aims, including (but not limited to) concepts of social relations, kingship, utopias, virtue, economic thought and the relation between society and nature. Their topic should relate to sources in Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian, and/or Georgian.
• You contribute to a database of commented passages on first millennium political thought.
• You participate in, and co-organize, team meetings, workshops and conferences.

• You hold (or will hold one by the starting date) a Master’s degree in a relevant field, including (but not limited to) Classics & Ancient History, History, Theology and Religious Studies, Philosophy, and Oriental Studies.
• You have a very good knowledge of at least one of the relevant languages (Greek, Latin, Syriac, Armenian or Georgian). Knowledge of two or more languages and cultures, or a willingness to acquire additional languages (including Hebrew, Persian and Arabic), is an advantage.
• You have an interest in working across different traditions and in comparative research.
• You have an interest in engaging with other disciplines, in particular philosophy and the history of political thought.
• Knowledge of Digital Humanities, or a willingness to acquire this, is an advantage.
• Whilst capable of doing independent work, you are willing to work in a team.
• You have good organizational skills.

• We offer a full-time position as a doctoral fellow, consisting of an initial period of 12 months, which, after a positive evaluation, will be extended to a total maximum of 48 months.
• Your contract will start on 1/3/2025 at the earliest and on 1/10/2025 at the latest.
• The fellowship amount is around 2500 euro/month. It is equal to 100% of the net salary of an AAP member in equal family circumstances. The individual fellowship amount is determined by the Department of Personnel and Organization based on family status and seniority. A grant that meets the conditions and criteria of the regulations for doctoral fellowships is considered free of personal income tax. Click here for more information about our salary scales
• All Ghent University staff members enjoy a number of benefits, such as a wide range of training and education opportunities, 36 days of holiday leave (on an annual basis for a full-time job) supplemented by annual fixed bridge days, bicycle allowance and eco vouchers. Click here for a complete overview of all the staff benefits (in Dutch).