Call for application for four 2-year Postdoctoral Fellowships at the Zukunftskolleg
Deadline: 12 October 2026, 11:00 am CET.
The Zukunftskolleg offers postdoctoral researchers independence for their research, interdisciplinary and intergenerational exchange as well as intra-university integration and international contacts. The working language is English.
The Wang Gungwu Visiting Fellows Programme honours Professor Wang Gungwu, former Chairman of the Board of Trustees at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute (ISEAS) for his distinguished tenure of 17 years at the Institute.
The programme aims to build the next generation of scholars and policy makers exploring the nexus of big-power relations and its impact on Southeast Asia through policy relevant research on international politics and security, regional economics and digital technology, in the following priority areas of research:
A Visiting Fellowship is offered each year in Trinity Term (8 weeks from 23rd April to 17th June with a possible extension to the full three months) at the Maison Française in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology.
Applications for 2027 should be sent before 1 June 2026 to the History of Science Committee for the Maison Française d’Oxford (secretary@mfo.ac.uk). The application includes a research proposal – maximum 1000 words – and a short CV in English (no more than one-page).
About UN University
For the past four decades, the United Nations University (UNU) has been a go-to think tank for impartial research on the pressing global problems of human survival, conflict prevention, development, and welfare. With more than 400 researchers in 13 countries, UNU’s work spans the full breadth of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, generating policy-relevant knowledge to effect positive global change. UNU maintains more than 200 collaborations with UN agencies and leading universities and research institutions across the globe.
About the UNU International Institute for Global Health (UNU-IIGH)
The MSCA-IF scheme grants two types of research fellowships:
Casa de Velázquez and the Madrid Institute for Advanced Study already welcome two Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships researchers, Nicolas Simon (FNRS-Université Louvain-La Neuve), since 2019 and Margarida Barroso (ISCTE-IUL), since 2020.
These Fellowships support Warwick staff to develop new research collaborations in countries on the DAC List of ODA Recipients. The awards will support Warwick academics to visit research institutions in these countries and for researchers from those countries to make extended visits to Warwick with the aim of establishing long-term research partnerships & networks and developing a future GCRF (Global Ch