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Sunday, June 6, 2010

ICSSR Senior Fellowships /General Fellowships 2010

Indian Council of Social Science Research Fellowship 2010

Fellowships (Senior Fellowships /General Fellowships)
ICSSR invites proposals for financial support through Fellowships-General(Post Doctoral) & Senior(Senior Social Scientist) for the year 2010-11 The research proposals may belong to anyone of the social science disciplines or may be interdisciplinary in nature. The recognized disciplines are :

(i) Economics/Commerce/Management/Business Administration (ii) Sociology and Social Anthropology/Social Work/Demography/Gender Studies; (iii) Political Science/International Relations/Geography/Public Administration; (iv) Psychology/Education/Criminology; (v) Others- Linguistics/Law etc.
Invitation of proposals for financial support under above disciplines includes for Northeast Region (NER) also.
The applicants are requested to indicate under which clubbing of disciplines their proposals falls.

ELIGIBILITY
1. For fellowships a scholar must have Ph.D. Degree or equivalent publication and the CV must indicate capability of independent research;
2. Age: For General Fellowship-50 years, and for Senior Fellowship-there is no age bar;

AFFILIATION
The applicant shall be affiliated to Universities/Colleges/Institutions recognized and funded by Central/State Government. In case of other institutions/NGOs/Registered Societies, the applicant will have to furnish additional details in accordance with Annexure V of the Research Project Booklet. Affiliation will be granted to only such institutions/NGOs which satisfy the conditions laid down in our format.

VALUE AND DURATION
Detailed financial informations about General and Senior Fellowships may be seen in the concerned schemes on our website. Maximum duration of a General and Senior Fellowships is two years extendable by one more year only in exceptional cases. Salary protected cases are strictly for two years for regular employees.

Fellowships with Salary Protection

The applicants shall have put in at least two years continues service in the institution before they apply and the institution shall certify that it will maintain their lien on the post during the period of the fellowship and allow them to return to it after the period of fellowship is over. Only the employees of those institutes which follow UGC/Govt norms will be considered.

LAST DATE
Last date for submitting research proposals for GENERAL AND SENIOR Fellowships is 30th June 2010. Applications which are received after the deadline date or are incomplete in any respect will be rejected. The proposal which qualifies the first round of screening by experts will be recommended for a interaction with the subject experts. A communication in this regard shall be sent to the applicants whose proposals will qualify for interaction. We expect to communicate final decision to successful candidates by August/September 2010.

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Complete application, as per the prescribed format, for all categories would include; (i) five copies of research proposal, (ii) five copies of 500-word summary of the research proposal, (iii) five copies of bio-data in prescribed format, (iv) Letter of consent from the affiliating organization, and (vi) document containing the profile of the affiliating organization, in case of General fellowship, Consent letter of the supervisor and his Bio-Data and short summary of Phd thesis (only one copy) is also required. For Salary protected Fellowships, Scholar should apply through Employer.

Please see following Annexures:

Format for Bio-data : Annexure 1
Guidelines for Formulations of Proposals : Annexure 2
Format for letter from affiliating institute: Annexure 3
Format for Short summary : Annexure 4
format for profile of affiliating institution (only for NGO) : Annexure 5
Formats for research proposals with all details in respect of General and Senior Fellowships can be downloaded from our website: www.icssr.org
Applications must be sent by registered mail, acknowledgement due, or through courier. ICSSR does not accept applications by FAX or E-mail
Mailed or couriered applications must be postmarked not later than the deadline date. If the deadline falls on a weekend or a public holiday, the next working day applies.
The proposal, with all necessary details, may be sent to :

Deputy Director (Fellowships )

Indian Council of Social Science Research
Aruna Asaf Ali Marg
JNU Institutional Area
New Delhi-110067

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