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Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity

Application for the 2025/6 ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the European Institute is now open.

LSE has been awarded funding from the ESRC to appoint four Postdoc Fellows for the 2025/6 academic year. The European Institute is looking for a candidate to support, to be based in the department. The scheme is open to both internal and external candidates.

We are interested in hearing from candidates whose research touches on one of the EI’s four research themes.

Applicants must have have been awarded a PhD or have passed their viva voce 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.

Applicants must also have no more than 12 months of active postdoctoral experience since passing their viva voce by 25 March 2025

Further details about the programme, and answers to Frequently Asked Questions, can be found here.

Interested parties should contact Jonathan White, European Institute Deputy Head (Research) and Carl Ludwig-Campbell, European Institute Manager in the first instance at ei.academic@lse.ac.uk with a draft proposal by no later than 4pm (UK time) on Friday 21 February 2025.

We will support applications approved by an internal panel, which must then be submitted to the School by no later than 4pm (UK time) on Tuesday 25 March 2025.