Hughes Hall intends to award at least two non-stipendiary postdoctoral Research Fellowships, normally tenable for three years initially. It is hoped that successful applicants will be able to enter into tenure on 1 January 2005, if suitable candidates present themselves. These Fellowships may be renewed for a further period of two years, making five years' tenure in all. Candidates who have already held a Junior Research Fellowship at an Oxford or Cambridge College will not normally be considered.
To be eligible a candidate should normally have secured, or be in the process of securing, funding commensurate with postdoctoral standing in a Department, Faculty or other institution of, or associated with the University; to be resident within the precincts of the University on entry to, as well as ordinarily during the initial tenure of the Fellowship and, on election, to be early in their research career. Formal approval for the Ph.D. Degree must have been obtained before the successful candidates will be able to enter into tenure of their Fellowships. The College recognizes that funding bodies' awards strategy may not necessarily fit in with the normal Cambridge term structure and intends to be as flexible as possible. Candidates without three years' confirmed full funding at the time of application will not be excluded from the competition. However, tenure will be contingent on, and co-terminous with, confirmed full funding for a minimum of twelve months being demonstrable within three months of the date of election. In these circumstances the Governing Body will normally extend the tenure of a Research Fellow to the end of second academical year after that in which s/he was elected automatically, if suitable funding is subsequently obtained.
Aside from these stipulations, there are no formal conditions of age, or of subject attached to these Fellowships. However, it is the College's expectation that these Fellowships will be held as a prelude to an academic career. Research Fellows are members of the Governing Body, eligible to sit on College committees and will be expected to play an active role in the life of the College. They will be entitled to the normal privileges of Fellows of Hughes Hall; modest financial support may be available when attending meetings as participants and towards expenses associated with their research.
Applications should be sent in hard copy (not by e-mail) to Dr M. J. Franklin, Registrary, Hughes Hall, Cambridge, CB1 2EW, by 10 November, together with a curriculum vitae, the names of three referees, a statement of not more than 1,000 words outlining present and future research intelligible to a non-specialist, and details of the applicant's present and expected means of financial support. Please note that there is no separate application form. Applicants should ask their referees to write directly to Dr Franklin in hard copy (not e-mail) by that date. Candidates may be called for interview on 10 November or subsequently.