News from Modern Languages & Cultures

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures is seeking oustanding candidates to apply for Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships at Durham University

(25 January 2012)

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures is seeking outstanding candidates to apply for prestigious Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships through Durham University. In particular, we welcome applicants working on topics related to the themes of our research groups (http://www.dur.ac.uk/mlac/research/groups/ ). Early Career Fellowships aim to provide career development opportunities for those who are at a relatively early stage of their academic careers but with a proven record of research. The Trust contributes 50% of each Fellow's total salary costs up to a maximum of £23,000 per annum and the balance is paid by the host institution. Given the prestige of the awards each Fellow may request annual research expenses of up to £6,000 to further his or her research activities. 

Further information, including eligibility criteria can be found at: http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/ECF/ECF.cfm and http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/ECF/eligibility.cfm 

Further information about the School of Modern Languages and Cultures can be found at: http://www.dur.ac.uk/mlac/ 

Applicants who want to apply for an Early Career Fellowship through the School of Modern Languages and Cultures will receive assistance in the form of feedback on individual draft applications, especially the project proposal. For this assistance, applicants need to contact Dr Thomas Wynn (thomas.wynn@dur.ac.uk), providing the following information, in good time for an internal submission deadline of 2 February 2012: 

• (a) A current Curriculum Vitae
• (b) A detailed account of the proposed research, (2 pages of A4, Times New Roman 12 pt). This should include aims, objectives, methodology and publication plans. The methodology should be clear and comprehensible to a non-expert. Bibliographic references should be included in full.
• (c) An abstract of the proposal in non-technical terms so as to be easily comprehensible to a non-expert.
• (d) Details of research being undertaken in the department/centre at Durham which is relevant to your proposal. 

Applications will then undergo a process of scrutiny by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities which provides the matching funding. Applicants will be informed whether their application can be supported by Durham by Thursday 9 February, allowing plenty of time for further polishing of the application to meet the Leverhulme Trust deadline of 4pm on 8 March 2012. The Trust will report results, by letter, by the end of May 2012.

• The Leverhulme Trust