Category: Capacity Building

NINE DTP postdoctoral fellowships provide one year of support for recent PhDs to consolidate their doctoral research. Applications are due 16 May 2024.

Postdoctoral Fellowships

Take the next step towards a career in research

NINE DTP postdoctoral fellowships are aimed at those in the immediately postdoctoral stage of their career, to provide the opportunity to consolidate their PhD through developing publications, their networks, and their research and professional skills.

Full details about the fellowship scheme can be found on the ESRC’s Call Specification and FAQ pages.

Fellowship purpose

Unlike some postdoctoral fellowships, this scheme is designed to help recent PhDs consolidate their recently completed doctoral work, e.g. through developing publications, establishing networks, and implementing impact-orientated activities. (See the Call Specification for a more extensive list of potential ‘consolidation’ activities.) Fellows may devote a maximum of 25 percent of their time to new research.

Eligibility

Applicants must have received their PhD from a UK Research Organisation. Specifically, they must have taken had their viva (and either passed or passed with minor revisions) no later than 16 May 2024, and they also may have had no more than 12 months of postdoctoral research experience. For the 2024 competition, there will be a small pool of candidates who did not have their viva voce in time to be eligible for the 2023 competition but will now have more than 12 months of active postdoctoral experience by this year’s closing date of 16 May 2024. In these specific circumstances only, candidates may be considered eligible with up to a maximum of 14 months active postdoctoral experience. Successful candidates must also meet conditions for employment at the university where they will be carrying out their fellowship, as well as securing a valid visa or work permit, if required.

Mentoring

A key component of the fellowship is mentorship from a permanent member of staff at the institution hosting the postdoctoral fellowship (this can be any of the seven institutions within NINE DTP). To identify a potential mentors, in addition to perusing department webpages, you may wish to consult relevant pathway leads at the institution(s) you are considering. Pathway leads can be identified via our Pathways page.

Benefits

This one-year (two-year if part-time) fellowship provides salary (generally at Point 30 on the national Higher Education pay-scale, set at £37,099 for 2023-24). In addition, fellows may budget £10,000 for other costs including mentoring costs, travel and subsistence, conference attendance, training, and fieldwork.

Applications

Applications must include:

• Application form
• Case for support
• Justification of resources (budget justification)
• CV
• List of publications (references from case for support)
• Head of department statement
• Mentor statement and summary CV
• Referee statement
• Workplan
• Data management plan
• Data sharing consent form
• Equal opportunities monitoring form (submitted separately, online)

Further instructions on each of these components can be found in the ESRC Call Specification.

Applications must be submitted as a single PDF file to contact.nine@durham.ac.uk no later than 4pm (UK time) on 16 May 2024.

Assessment

Applications will be assessed according to six criteria (each of which is described further in the ESRC Call Specification):

• Quality of work programme
• Value for money
• Mentoring arrangements
• Impact and outputs
• Consideration of ethical issues
• Data management plans

An initial panel, consisting of pathway leads from the institution at which you are hoping to undertake your placement, will use these criteria as well as a seventh criterion of ‘overall assessment’ to select a shortlist to forward on to the NINE DTP fellowship panel. The NINE DTP panel – the seven NINE DTP directors – with further input from external reviewers as well as a university impact officer, will then announce awards in July 2024. We anticipate making a minimum of four awards across NINE DTP.

Information Source: https://www.ninedtp.ac.uk/postdoctoral-fellowship-scheme/

Managing Editor: Xin Fan

Are you a graduate student or early career researcher, interested in questions related to international higher education?

The WES-CIHE Summer Institute supports the development of the next generation of international higher education scholars, by connecting graduate students and early career researchers with seasoned professionals and senior scholars from around the world. Please consider joining us for the next Summer Institute, which will be held at Boston College on June 4 and 5, 2024!

Link: https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/lynch-school/sites/cihe/events-news/wes-cihe-conference.html#tab-venue_accommodations

What to Expect

The theme of the 2024 Summer Institute is Equitable Higher Education in Times of Disruption.

At the Summer Institute, participants can expect to:

• engage in substantive discussions about this important topic,
• share their work, in a supportive environment, and receive both written and oral feedback from established scholars, 
• network with other early career researchers, and
• participate in discussions about important developmental topics, such as innovative methods, disseminating your scholarship, and the international job search.

The Summer Institute combines individual paper presentations, panel discussions with expert speakers and opportunities for group discussion and networking for participants and presenters. 

Draft Program

TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 2024
11:00 am	ARRIVAL AT BOSTON COLLEGE
11:30 am	WELCOME & OPENING PANEL DISCUSSION Equitable Higher Education in Times of Disruption
1:00 pm	Lunch, and Participant and Presenter Introductions
2:00 pm	PARTICIPANT PAPER SESSION #1
3:15 p.m.	Break
3:30 p.m.	PANEL DISCUSSION Disseminating Your Scholarship
4:30 p.m.	Break
4:45 p.m.	PARTICIPANT PAPER SESSION #2
5:30 p.m.	Wine & Cheese Reception

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 2024
8:30 am	Coffee, Light Breakfast, and Networking
9:00 am	PANEL DISCUSSION Community Engagement in International Higher Education
10:00 am	Break
10:15 am	PARTICIPANT PAPER SESSION #3
11:30 am	Break
11:45 am	PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSION Making the Most of Your Doctorate
12:45 pm	Lunch and networking
1:30 pm	FIRESIDE CHAT with PHILIP G. ALTBACH
2:15 pm	Break
2:30 pm	PANEL DISCUSSION Innovative Methods in International Higher Education Research
3:30 pm	PARTICIPANT PAPER SESSION #4
4:45 pm	Break
5:00 pm	LESSONS LEARNED, CONCLUDING THOUGHTS, and NEXT STEPS
6:00 pm	Summer Institute Ends

Paper Submission

Any graduate student or early career professional* is invited to participate in the 2024 WES-CIHE Summer Institute. Participants who wish to participate should submit a 1,000-word paper representing original research relevant to the conference theme of “equitable higher education in times of disruption.”

In an era of disruptions of many types – such as pandemics, climate change, and conflict, just to name a few – higher education is faced with challenges to navigate rapidly changing realities, overcome economic, political, ecological, and technological difficulties, and equitably serve its multiple stakeholders. We invite submissions of empirical research or conceptual work that is concerned with advancing higher education equity against this backdrop, whether the focus is on students, teachers, researchers, scholars, higher education practitioners, or any other stakeholder, and whether the submission targets local, national or international disruption(s).

Selected participants will be invited to present their paper at the Summer Institute. Selected papers will also be considered for publication in a future edition of CIHE Perspectives.

To apply:

• Interested participants must submit the following:
  • 1,000 word paper (exclusive of references);
  • Curriculum vitae (CV) 
• Applications must be received by January 31, 2024
• All materials should be submitted by email to wescihesummerinstitute@bc.edu.

Selected participants will be informed by February 15.  Limited travel funding and two nights’ free accommodation will be offered to selected participants based outside the Boston area.

There is no option to register/attend without submitting a paper.

* Early career professionals are eligible if they completed their terminal degree within the past five years.

Venue

The 2024 WES-CIHE Summer Institute will be held on the campus of Boston College, located in Chestnut Hill, MA, just 20 minutes from Boston’s Logan Airport.

Accommodations

Selected participants will receive free accommodation in the Boston University dormitories in downtown Boston for the nights of June 4 and 5. (A shuttle service will be provided to bring participants to Boston College from the BU dormitories).

Managing Editor: Tong Meng

Applicants can be at any stage of career but must have:

· a good understanding of the nature, aims and scope of the journal;
· a PhD in – or closely related to – the sociology of education;
· an affiliation to a university or an established research organisation;
· published at least three peer-reviewed articles, at least one of which should be in BJSE or a journal with similar scope and standing;
· experience as a peer reviewer.

The executive editors are particularly keen to receive applications from sociologists of education who identify as being from minoritized or marginalised communities, those whose expertise includes advanced quantitative methods, and those whose interests and expertise encompass familiarity with educational issues, institutions and systems across the world.  Editorial board appointments are unpaid. Members are listed on the journal’s webpages. Most editorial board members review around six items per year.  Appointments are open-ended and continue indefinitely by mutual agreement.  However, they can be brought to a close at any time, either by (a) the individual editorial board member standing down, or (b) as a result of a majority decision at a formally-constituted meeting of the executive editors. Please send a letter of application as an email attachment to Rachel Brooks (r.brooks@surrey.ac.uk) by 5pm (UK time) on Tuesday, 2nd January 2024. The letter should be no more than 500 words and should state how you meet the criteria, and any particular areas of expertise you have that you feel would benefit the journal (such as particular research methods; phases or types of educational activity; topics, issues or debates; perspectives or theories; countries, continents, systems).  Letters may contain a link to a professional profile web-page, but no further attachments are required.

Managing Editor: Tong Meng

研究目的：探索英國華裔家庭的語言態度、教育方式以及文化認同

招募居英華裔家庭條件

• 華裔家庭子女現為英國中學生
• 華裔家庭子女在英國出生和長大或是在小學開始前移民到英國
• 家長最少其中一方母語為中文（普通話或廣東話）
• 最少一名華裔家長能參與網上面談，如有一名子女能參與網上面談更佳

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訪談時長：60分鐘（家長）40分鐘（子女）
訪談時間：2023年11月2至12日（具體時間可商量）
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獎勵：每名參與人士都能獲得10英磅

如有問題，歡迎以電郵與香港教育大學Dr Jennie Li查詢，jzjli@eduhk.hk

We welcome submissions on a wide variety of topics – or ways of apprehending/studying the university – and we are especially interested in those that ask critical questions of their material.

More traditional themes might include academic capitalism, academic work and practice, curriculum, doctoral education, internationalisation/globalisation, leadership and management, and performativity. Newer themes might include affect and bodies, ecologies of knowledges, neo-nationalism and the university, relationality and mattering, studying, teaching the university, temporality and spatiality.

We welcome submissions from researchers across the board (doctoral, early-career, established) in a range of different styles including:​

Papers (30 mins) – abstract of no more than 350 words

Single paper presentations explore one or more dimensions of the conference themes. The goal of these sessions is to share work-in-progress and engage in dialogue with conference participants, so timing should be balanced between presentation and discussion (20m+10m is optimal). You should also aim to demonstrate how your paper contributes (or is likely to contribute) to the existing body of scholarly research.

Symposia (90 mins) – abstract of no more than 1000 words

Where presenters have 3-4 thematically linked papers, you may propose a symposium with a maximum time of 90 mins. Provide an overarching abstract for the symposium as a whole as well as titles and reduced abstracts for each paper within the symposium. Please nominate a contact person for the symposium.

Roundtable (60 mins) – abstract of no more than 350 words

Roundtable discussions provide the opportunity for a lively discussion around a particular topic or area of research. They are an ideal opportunity for networking and for building collaborations. If you wish to propose a roundtable, the submission should include an overview of the topic, and pose some critical questions that the roundtable discussion will explore. These sessions will be chaired by the person who proposes the roundtable.

Performance and/or Creative Presentation (30 or 60 mins) – abstract of no more than 350 words

Performance-based presentations provide an opportunity for presenters to invent or draw on new forms and expressions as well as traditions of arts-based inquiry for exploring the conference themes. We welcome performance in all its variety. Some possibilities include: readers’ theatre, performance ethnography, and poetic representations of research. If you wish to propose a performance, your submission will need to be strong in both the idea (related to the conference themes), and in the description of the type of performance. If the performance involves audience participation, you need to indicate that in your submission.

Ensure your submission includes:

• Submission type
• Title of submission
• Presenters and their institutional affiliations
• Name and email address of the key contact person
• Abstract (noting the maximum word count)
• Up to 5 scholarly references.

Review Criteria

Every submission to the conference will be double-blind peer reviewed according to the following criteria:

• It responds and contributes to the conference theme
• It is connected to, and in conversation with, appropriate scholarly literature
• It demonstrates how and why it is of interest to the intended audience
• It is well written.

Note: This conference will be held in English and is an in-person event only.

Key Dates

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 30 October 2023

Notification of acceptance: 10 December 2023 

Conference dates: 19 – 21 June 2024

Abstract Submission

Send to: cusconf2024@gmail.com

More information: https://www.cusconf.com/submissions

Managing Editor: Tong Meng