URC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Course(s) Offered: Any field
Course Level: Graduate (postdoctoral)
Provider: The University of Cape Town
Country to Study in: South Africa
Scholarship Description
The University of Cape Town University Research Committee (URC) offers Postdoctoral Fellowships for all South African as well as Foreign candidates inward South Africa.
The University of Cape Town URC Postdoctoral Fellowships induce got been established to encourage first-class doctoral graduates to undertake inquiry as well as academic preparation equally Postdoctoral Research Fellows at the University of Cape Town. The Fellowships are based on academic merit as well as the issue as well as character of the applicant’s peer reviewed publications volition survive taken into account.
The University of Cape Town invites applications for a express issue of Postdoctoral Research Fellowships to survive taken upward at the University during 2014.
Eligibility
Conditions as well as Eligibility:
Course(s) Offered: Any field
Course Level: Graduate (postdoctoral)
Provider: The University of Cape Town
Country to Study in: South Africa
Scholarship Description
The University of Cape Town University Research Committee (URC) offers Postdoctoral Fellowships for all South African as well as Foreign candidates inward South Africa.
The University of Cape Town URC Postdoctoral Fellowships induce got been established to encourage first-class doctoral graduates to undertake inquiry as well as academic preparation equally Postdoctoral Research Fellows at the University of Cape Town. The Fellowships are based on academic merit as well as the issue as well as character of the applicant’s peer reviewed publications volition survive taken into account.
The University of Cape Town invites applications for a express issue of Postdoctoral Research Fellowships to survive taken upward at the University during 2014.
Eligibility
Conditions as well as Eligibility:
- All South African as well as unusual candidates are eligible, exactly preference volition survive given to applicants who graduated with the doctoral flat from universities other than UCT.
- Applicants who graduated from UCT at BOTH undergraduate as well as postgraduate levels are ineligible.
- Postdoctoral Research Fellowships are unremarkably awarded to individuals inside 5 years of having achieved a doctoral degree. Only applicants who were awarded the PhD flat no before than June 2009 as well as who are non yet inward academic or inquiry posts are eligible.
- There is no restriction on whatever item champaign of study or champaign of research, but applications from other African countries as well as from women as well as dark researchers volition survive given preference.
- Applicants who induce got non yet graduated with the PhD flat must render proof that the PhD thesis has been submitted past times no afterwards than fifteen September 2013. Such proof must survive accompanied past times a written disputation past times the supervisor that the flat is probable to survive achieved.
- The successful candidate volition survive expected to undertake the agreed inquiry likewise equally optional exactly express teaching duties equally business office of professional person development; however
- Successful candidates volition non survive expected to perform whatever service to the host-department at the University of Cape Town inward render for the Fellowship.
- The URC Postdoctoral Fellowship is considered to survive a PRIMARY AWARD as well as cannot survive held inward total concurrently with whatever other respect without the prior consent of the University Research Committee. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 maximum of 50% (R95,000) of the value of the respect tin flame survive held concurrently with other postdoctoral fellowship(s) upward to the overall boundary of income from all sources of R350,000.
- It is crucial that applicants’ inquiry interests as well as faculty needs are inward trace of piece of job with those of the host department.
- Successful candidates volition survive expected to release an appropriate issue of papers, equally determined past times the discipline.
- Successful candidates volition survive required to motion into into a Memorandum of Agreement with the University of Cape Town, as well as a Memorandum of Understanding with his/her Principal Investigator.
- Successful candidates volition survive required to comply with the University of Cape Town’s approved policies, procedures as well as practises for the postdoctoral sector.
Citizens of ALL sub-Saharan African countries
Participating Institutions
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Fields of study
Postdoctoral inquiry as well as academic preparation inward whatever available champaign at UCT
Number of awards
Not specified
Sponsorship duration
The Fellowships are tenable for a maximum of 12 months.
Applications for renewal for one farther year volition survive considered, exactly exclusively inward contest with novel applications. Renewals are non guaranteed as well as submission of an application does non guarantee an award.
Scholarship benefits
The value of the Fellowships is fixed at R190, 000 per annum, as well as include whatever relocation expenses. The Fellowships demeanor no benefits as well as a directive for taxation exemption volition survive applied for past times UCT on behalf of the successful candidate.
Method of Application
Please consummate the PDOC01 Application Form. This is available from the Postgraduate Centre as well as Funding Office, University of Cape Town or from the cyberspace at the official website (see link below).
Applications must include all requested document, including: completed PDOC01 Application Form including all required data as well as attachments; applicant’s total CV as well as a full list of publications (reports from 3 referees, which must survive submitted inward sealed envelopes); as well as certified copies of all academic transcripts (please create non include copies of certificates).
Although fully completed applications must survive submitted direct to the Postgraduate Funding Office, applicants are urged to contact the appropriate Head of Department inward the starting fourth dimension event if at all possible. Information on faculty construction as well as academic departments may survive found on the official UCT website. It is of import to read this page.
DEADLINES:
The closing engagement for receipt of applications is 08 August 2013
PLEASE NOTE:
Please banknote that belatedly and/or incomplete applications volition survive disqualified. Where applicable, proof of submission of the PhD thesis is due past times no afterwards than fifteen September 2013.
The University of Cape Town (UCT) is a populace inquiry academy located inward Cape Town inward the Western Cape tell of South Africa. UCT was founded inward 1829 equally the South African College, as well as is the oldest academy inward South Africa as well as the bit oldest extant academy inward Africa. UCT is the highest-ranked African academy inward the QS World University Rankings, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, as well as the Academic Ranking of World Universities, as well as its Law as well as Commerce Faculties are consistently placed with the hundred best internationally. The linguistic communication of teaching is English.
Application Deadline: viii August 2013
Open to International Applicants: Yes
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