The International Senior Fellowships will be awarded for 6 months and may start on 1 March 2024 or 1 September 2024. They will be awarded to advanced and highly established senior researchers who are active members of a foreign university or research institution, have an outstanding research profile in the social sciences and/or the humanities (proven primarily by a significant track record of excellent publications), have completed their doctorate at least 6 years prior to their application and seek to initiate or enhance a research collaboration with a fellow colleague from the UA Ruhr.
As all international senior fellows will collaborate with a fellow scholar from the UA Ruhr during the period of their residency, applicants are asked to identify a matching tandem partner from the UA Ruhr in the course of their application. Tandem partnerships can be established with advanced, highly experienced senior researchers from one of the three member universities of the UA Ruhr (University of Duisburg-Essen, Ruhr University Bochum, TU Dortmund University) working in the field of the social sciences and/or the humanities. In addition to being an integral part of a joint research collaboration during the fellowship, the tandem partners will actively integrate the international senior fellows into the academic landscape of the UA Ruhr.
All international senior fellows will be offered a single office space in the premises of the College for Social Sciences and Humanities. Facilities there include meeting and conference rooms equipped with modern technology allowing the organisation of (hybrid) events, such as workshops, lectures, and conferences. In addition to an individual IT support, there will also be a personal library service. Further support will be provided by a professional fellow management.
Deadline for applications is 27 August 2023. The selection of fellows will take place in September 2023, selected fellows will be informed by October 2023.
