Medical Science | Scholarship for Nigerians and Africans - Part 61

MSRA Postdoctoral Fellowship, Australia: Biomedical, clinical or population health.

The MSRA Postdoctoral fellowship is open to those candidates who have achieved their PhD within the last twelve years. MSRA may also consider applications from students in the final year of their PhD studies. The duration of the Postdoctoral fellowship is typically three years. Typical Grant-in-Aid amount may be $70-80,000 per year. In order to increase your chances of funding please also consider applying for a NHMRC Early Career or Career Development award.
Eligibility: Applicants must have been awarded their PhD within the last 12 years (consideration will also be given to final year PhD students).


Scholarship Application Deadline:
12 April 2011

Further Scholarship Information and Application

Partner Studentships in Biology and Physics at University of York, UK

Partner Studentships offer a tuition fee waiver (at the home/EU rate) and a stipend. The studentship covers three years of full time PhD registration. The stipend is contributed by an external partner and is usually equivalent to a UK Research Council stipend (£13,590) for 2010-11. In addition, the Partner Studentship usually offers the opportunity to work with the external partner gaining valuable experience and career development at the same time as carrying out doctoral research. The eligible department will offer further guidance on the specific expectations of a particular Partner Studentship.
Eligibility: In order to be eligible you must:

  1. Have applied for a place on a full time PhD programme in the relevant Department.
  2. Have or expect to obtain a first or upper second class honours degree or equivalent prior to commencing the PhD degree.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 30 April 2011

Further Scholarship Information and Application

2011 CASBS-Residential Fellowship Program at Stanford University, USA: Anthropology, Economics, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology Humanistic Disciplines, Education, Linguistics and Biological Sciences.

The Center offers a residential postdoctoral fellowship program for scientists and scholars from this country and abroad. Since 1954, CASBS fellowships have been awarded to scholars working in a diverse range of disciplines. These include the five core social and behavioral disciplines of anthropology, economics, political science, psychology and sociology as well as scholars from a wide range of humanistic disciplines, education, linguistics and the biological sciences.

Many activities offer Fellows significant opportunities to engage with one another (as well as with other accomplished scholars on Stanford campus):

•a seminar series in which Fellows are invited to present their work
•informal work groups that emerge during the year, which give Fellows with broadly overlapping interests a basis for sustained conversation
•public meetings of special projects in residence, which give Fellows a chance to learn more about these projects and to engage with participants on substantive issues of mutual interest
•daily lunches at the Center, which often result in one-on-one meetings between potential collaborators
•special events and recreational activities organized by the Center
•Stanford campus colloquia and seminars provided by the Psychology Department, the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, the Humanities Center, etc.

Scholarship Application Deadline:
April 6, 2011

Further Scholarship Information and Application