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Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP

Warwick Postdoctoral Fellowship- Expression of Interest

University of Warwick Deadlines

  1. Wednesday 15th January 2025 (23:59 GMT)- Applicants must have submitted an Expression of Interest (EOI) form via this webpage. Applicants will be notified of their RIS contact within 10 days of the EOI deadline.

  2. Monday 3rd March (10:00 GMT)- Latest date for draft proposals to be submitted to the assigned contact in RIS for review. Reviewed proposals will be returned to you by 11th March.

  3. Wednesday 19th March 2025 (12:00 GMT)- Latest date for final proposals including all costings to be submitted to the assigned contact in RIS for final checks and approvals.

  4. 25th March 2025 (16:00 GMT)- Applicants are then required to submit their completed proposal to the ESRC, full details about the process can be found on the MGS Postdoctoral Fellowship webpage.

The research support contact in RIS will work with applicants following the EOI to determine costings for the project. The total cost for each fellowship can include the following:

  • Fellow’s salary costs
  • Indirect costs
  • Estate costs
  • Up to a maximum of £10,000 for all other costs (to include costs such as mentoring costs, travel and subsistence, conference attendance, training, and fieldwork, for example).

A copy of the email confirming support from the host department must be provided to the research support contact in RIS before the EOI can progress to the final application stage.

You must have either been awarded a PhD by the ESRC submission deadline (25 March 2025) or have passed your viva with minor amendments by the application deadline of 25 March 2025 and have been awarded their PhD by the fellowship start date of 1 October 2025.


 
Under which of the following pathways does the proposed project fall?

EOI forms should only be submitted after discussing and agreeing support from your proposed mentor.

Mentors should notify their Head of Department before the EOI is submitted,


 
Privacy notice

The University of Warwick will use the personal data provided on this form for the purpose of fulfilling its reporting requirements to the Midlands Graduate School DTP Management Committee and the ESRC. Your personal data will not be shared or disclosed to any third parties external to the University of Warwick except with: select academics and administrators across the 8 institutions that form part of the Midlands Graduate School ESRC DTP (Universities of: Aston, Birmingham, De Montfort, Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham and Nottingham Trent), who will only receive the data in an anonymised format and will use it only for the purpose of equal opportunity monitoring. By submitting this form you understand that your personal data will be collected by the University of Warwick and shared on an anonymised basis with MGS colleagues and the ESRC for the purposes outlined above and that the personal data will be kept for the lifetime of the Midlands Graduate School ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership.

For further information regarding: how your information is held, including how we maintain the security of your information, your rights to access information we hold about you, how to update us on any changes to your details or to withdraw your consent for your data to be used for the purposes outlines above then please contact: esrcdtp@warwick.ac.uk

The University of Warwick is the Data Controller of any information you have entered on this form and is committed to protecting the rights of individuals in line with Data Protection Legislation. The University's Data Protection webpages provide further information on your rights and how the University processes personal data. If you wish to submit a data subjects rights request, make a complaint or report a suspected personal data breach, please contact the University’s Data Protection Officer by email at infocompliance@warwick.ac.uk.

The University of Warwick is the Data Controller of any information you have entered on this form and is committed to protecting the rights of individuals in line with Data Protection Legislation. The University's Data Protection webpages provide further information on your rights and how the University processes personal data. If you wish to submit a data subjects rights request, make a complaint or report a suspected personal data breach, please contact the University’s Data Protection Officer by email at infocompliance@warwick.ac.uk.

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