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The postdoctoral fellowships offered by the IRSST are intended for Ph.D. graduates who wish to broaden their research horizons or explore new, related fields in the specific sector of occupational health and safety research. The research should lead to the acquisition of new or enhanced skills in research and knowledge transfer, thus preparing the recipient for a career as an independent researcher.

Three options are available and are designed to assist new researchers who:

The University of Strathclyde (Scots: University o Strathclyde) is a public research university located in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1796 as the Andersonian Institute, it is Glasgow's second-oldest university, with the university receiving its royal charter in 1964 as the UK's first technological university. It takes its name from the historic Kingdom of Strathclyde.

The Institut de recherche Robert-Sauvé en santé et en sécurité du travail (IRSST), established in Québec since 1980, is a scientific research organization well known for the expertise of its personnel and the quality of its work.

The Museum promotes appreciation for and knowledge about the cultures and arts of the world. It creates spaces for cultural encounter and critical reflection through exhibitions, events, and research. Founded in an era of colonial inequality, the museum today aims to interrogate persisting colonial patterns of thought through collaborations and within an atmosphere of respect, openness and empathy. We want to inspire an idea of global citizenship.

The Vienna Wiesenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies (VWI) and the Fortunoff Archive at Yale University invite applications for its research fellowship for the period of February to July 2019.

The Center for Research on Race and Ethnicity in Society (CRRES) at Indiana University, Bloomington, invites applications for two CRRES Postdoctoral Fellowships. These fellowships provide support to scholars studying race and ethnicity from a broad range of fields in the social sciences, humanities, education, public policy, and media. CRRES fellowships are designed to advance the careers of new scholars by providing opportunities to research, teach, and connect with a mentor and with faculty in host departments.

The Compagnia di San Paolo pursues socially useful objectives in order to promote cultural, civil and economic development with the income from its assets.

The University of Cape Town URC Postdoctoral Fellowships have been established to encourage excellent doctoral graduates to undertake research and academic training as Postdoctoral Research Fellows at the University of Cape Town in 2019.  The Fellowships are based on academic merit and the number and quality of the applicant’s peer reviewed publications/scholarly output will be taken into account.

The University of Cape Town invites applications for a limited number of URC Postdoctoral Research Fellowships to be taken up at the University during 2019.

L’Institut historique allemand (IHA) et le Centre de recherches sur les politiques sociales (CREPOS) offrent une bourse d’études postdoctorales pour une période de 24 mois (prolongeable de 12 mois après une évaluation positive). Nous cherchons un postdoctorant ou une postdoctorante capable de mener à bien un projet de recherche s’inscrivant dans la thématique générale du programme de recherche transnational "La bureaucratisation des sociétés africaines". Les disciplines éligibles sont les sciences humaines et sociales.

The Institute for Research in the Humanities will offer five Solmsen Fellowships for 2019-2020 to be awarded to scholars from outside the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Through a generous bequest from Friedrich and Lieselotte Solmsen, the Solmsen Fellowships sponsor scholars working in the humanities on European history, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, art and culture in the classical, medieval, and/or early modern periods before 1700. Projects on the relationship of pre-1700 Europe to other parts of the world are also welcome.