Funding: Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (University of Sheffield)

Deadline: February 27, 2020

The  School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sheffield invites outstanding postdoctoral candidates to apply for the 2020 round of the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship scheme. We will be sponsoring one candidate for this scheme and would be delighted to hear from qualified candidates in Slavic studies.
Our  School has a thriving research community. We engage in research which spans a wide range of  languages (Catalan, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Luxembourgish,  Portuguese,  Russian and Spanish), geographical regions (Europe, the Americas, Africa) and disciplinary and thematic specialisms (Intellectual History and Politics; Linguistics; Migration,  Culture and Community; National and Transnational Literatures; Visual  Cultures, Film and Performance). To find out more about our areas within Slavonic studies,  please visit https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/slc/research/russian .

If you are a postdoctoral candidate working in a relevant subject area and are considering applying to the  scheme, please feel free to get in touch with a relevant member of staff, or you can contact me directly and I will put you in touch with the person best matched to your area. If you are interested in applying, you must first check that you meet the Leverhulme Trust’s eligibility criteria: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career-fellowships

More information about the Leverhulme ECFs at Sheffield is here: https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/faculty/arts-and-humanities/research-innovation/early-career-fellowships/leverhulme-internal-application-process