A new type of post-doctoral fellowship has been created in the UK, especially aimed at attracting the best and the brightest early-stage post-doctoral researchers (max 6 years out of PhD) to the UK. The applicants need to live outside of the UK currently, and if they do not have a PhD yet should have it before taking up the position. The fellowships are for 2 years, provide a salary, £8000 per year in research funds and £2000 in relocation funds. In addition, if the fellows stay in research after the 2 years, they will continue to receive £6000 per year for the next 10 years (!). This will be a very tough competition, but very attractive to top young post-docs. The applicants have to propose a laboratory in the UK in which they will want to work and the application has to be submitted through the host institution. More information can be found at
http://www.newtonfellowships.org.
I am sending out this e-mail to see if you know of (or are) somebody who might be interested in applying for such a fellowship to come and work in my lab on food-hoarding birds: their behaviour, memory and/or neurobiology. A number of projects would be possible and can be developed in discussion with the applicant. For more information on what we do in our laboratory, please see
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/tom.smulders/research.htm.
The deadline for the Newton Fellowships is August 4th 2008, with decisions announced 3 months later. Fellowships need to be taken up at the latest by March 31 2009. If anyone is interested in applying to come and work in my lab, please contact me before the end of June, so we can discuss the application.
Sincerely,
Tom Smulders
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Tom Smulders, Ph.D., Lecturer
Institute of Neuroscience
The Henry Wellcome Building for Neuroecology, Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU; Tel:
..44-(0)191-222-5790; Fax: ..44-(0)191-222-5622
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/tom.smulders
http://www.newtonfellowships.org.
I am sending out this e-mail to see if you know of (or are) somebody who might be interested in applying for such a fellowship to come and work in my lab on food-hoarding birds: their behaviour, memory and/or neurobiology. A number of projects would be possible and can be developed in discussion with the applicant. For more information on what we do in our laboratory, please see
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/tom.smulders/research.htm.
The deadline for the Newton Fellowships is August 4th 2008, with decisions announced 3 months later. Fellowships need to be taken up at the latest by March 31 2009. If anyone is interested in applying to come and work in my lab, please contact me before the end of June, so we can discuss the application.
Sincerely,
Tom Smulders
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tom Smulders, Ph.D., Lecturer
Institute of Neuroscience
The Henry Wellcome Building for Neuroecology, Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU; Tel:
..44-(0)191-222-5790; Fax: ..44-(0)191-222-5622
http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/tom.smulders