Royal Society: Postdoctoral fellowship programme

04/04/2024

12/03/2025

The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and the Royal Society invite applications for their postdoctoral fellowship programme. This enables young postdoctoral researchers from the UK to conduct cooperative research with research groups in universities and other Japanese institutions. Research must address a subject within the natural sciences. The scheme provides funding for between 12 months and two years, covering: a round-trip air ticket a monthly maintenance allowance of 362,000 yen (approximately £2,500) a settling-in allowance of 200,000 yen (approximately £1,400) overseas travel accident and sickness insurance coverage a research grant, “Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research” (Tokubetsu Kenkyuin Shorei-hi) is available to cover cooperative research-related expenses. Application for these grants is made by the Japanese host researcher through their institution. (Forecasted call for next year).

Agriculture; Archaeology; Biological Sciences; Immunology; Nutrition & Dietetics; Pharmacy & Pharmacology; Physical Sciences; Psychiatry; Public Health, Health Services & Primary Care; Soil Sciences

Eligibility Note You can apply for this scheme if you: have a PhD, or will have a PhD by the time the funding starts have not received your PhD more than six year prior to application are a UK resident and citizen of a country that has diplomatic relations with Japan have a research proposal agreed with a Japanese host scientist The scheme is not open to applicants who have previously been awarded a fellowship under the JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme for Foreign Researchers (excluding the Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme (Short Term Award) for North American and European Researchers and the Summer Programme).