We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Assistant to
work on the early evolution of galaxies with Professor Malcolm
Bremer. The application deadline is 09:00am on 04 May 2011, and full
details are available
here.
We encourage fellowship applicants to consider
working in the Astrophysics Group at Bristol. Possible funding
sources for fellowships are listed below and informal contacts
can be made to Professor M. Birkinshaw, the Head of Group.
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Postdoctoral
Fellowships provide up to three years' funding for less experienced researchers (i.e. those with no more than seven years’ research experience between the start of the postgraduate programme leading to the award of a PhD)
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Advanced
Fellowships provide up to five years' funding for researchers
with at least two years of postdoctoral experience.
- The Returners
to Research Scheme provides support for those seeking to
resume an academic research career (after a period of absence due,
for example, to family or other caring responsibilities, long-term
illness or working in a non-research role) to develop a proposal
suitable for submission to the STFC Fellowship schemes.
Some useful links are given below, but for a full list of funding available, see the Royal Society funding
page.
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Dorothy
Hodgkin Fellowships support excellent early-career scientists, who require a flexible working pattern, for up to four years
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University Research Fellowships provide outstanding scientists, who have the potential to become leaders in their chosen field, with the opportunity to build an independent research career. Funding is available for up to 8 years.
- Newton International Fellowships
attract the world's best early-career researchers to the UK for two
years.
Jobs in the Astrophysics Group
