International Scholarships

The Weatherhead East Asian Institute of Columbia University invites applications for its 2007-2008 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Modern Southeast Asian Studies. Candidates from all social science disciplines, including history, are welcome to apply. The fellowship will cover a 10 or 12-month period beginning July 1, 2007 or September 1, 2007. The Fellow will devote half time … [More Info]

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, invites applications for the above, to be based in the Southeast Asian Studies Programme. The successful candidate will be someone who holds a PhD degree (or is awaiting conferment) and has broad interdisciplinary expertise and research interests in Southeast Asian Studies (including specializations in … [More Info]

Postdoctoral and PhD Student Positions in Neurochoice, the University of Zurich, Switzerland SystemsX.ch, the Swiss initiative in systems biology, has initiated a new project entitled “Neurochoice: Neural Correlates of Collective Decision Making”, with principal investigators located at the Universi-ties of Zurich, Bern, and Geneva, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. One part … [More Info]

The International Livestock Research Institute and UNU-MERIT are jointly implementing a project to explore ways of strengthening innovation capacity in order to address the need to upgrade fodder use practices in different livestock production systems in India and Nigeria. This is being conducted within the overall goal of identifying ways of better using livestock related … [More Info]

The Board of Research at Karolinska Institutet hereby announces funding for 10 postdoc positions where co-funding is required from the departments. Eligible to apply for postdoctoral funding are applicants who: Will perform the postdoctoral studies at a department distinct from that where the PhD was awarded and substantially change their line of research. Will defend … [More Info]

The Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context: Shifting Asymmetries in Cultural Flows” at the University of Heidelberg is offering; 2 PhD scholarships within the Junior Research Group “Asymmetries in Cultural Information Flows: Europe and South Asia in the Global Information Network since the Nineteenth Century”. The PhD students will be expected … [More Info]

The United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) is now accepting applications for its three fellowship programmes: UNU-IAS PhD Fellowships, UNU-IAS Postdoctoral Fellowships, and JSPS-UNU Postdoctoral Fellowships. UNU-IAS is a multi-thematic, interdisciplinary, research and training centre located in Yokohama, Japan. The Institute’s fellowship programmes provide young scientists, policy makers, and developing country scholars with … [More Info]