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The National Research Foundation (NRF) in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) are pleased to announce the call for fellowship applications for 2019 in the following categories:

• DST- NRF- Freestanding Postdoctoral Fellowships;
• DST- NRF- Innovation Postdoctoral Fellowships; and
• DST- NRF- DHET - Scarce Skills Development Fund: Postdoctoral Fellowships

Objectives

The objectives for these postdoctoral fellowships supported by the NRF are listed below.

The Institute of Philosophy accepts applications for the position of Visiting Fellow. Currently the Institute runs two types of fellowship: 

Collaborative Visiting Fellowships

The call for applications for Collaborative Visiting Fellowships in the academic year 2024/25 is now open. 

The Graduate School "Global Intellectual History" invites applications for one postdoctoral fellowship

The University Council has established several Rhodes University Postdoctoral Fellowships across all faculties which may be awarded for one year with the possibility of renewal. The Fellowships are intended to foster existing research and scholarly or creative activities within Rhodes University departments and institutes. Ideally a Fellow's proposed work will closely complement existing programmes in the host department.

McMaster University has identified aging as a research priority, and is focusing its research strength on addressing the most pressing questions facing the aging population. In 2016, the University made a transformative investment in this area by creating the McMaster Institute for Research on Aging (MIRA), which serves to support and connect researchers and aging research platforms in all six Faculties.

As part of the project “Complexity in Science, Culture and Society” the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften / Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities of Goethe-University Frankfurt offers fellowships of three to six months in the period from autumn 2018 to the end of 2019, mainly in the field of theory of science/ philosophy of science/ history of science.

The call for applications is open for academics from the postdoctoral phase onwards. Working languages will be German and English.

The University of Sydney invites applications for the prestigious Sydney China Visitors program

The Sydney China Visitors program offers two types of fellowship: