The four Colleges invite applications for Junior Research Fellowships which will normally be tenable for three years from 1 October 2008. Fellowships are open to graduates, women and men, of any university who have recently completed their doctorates or are about to do so. Candidates with no previous connection with Cambridge or Oxford Universities are encouraged. The function of these Fellowships is as initial (normally) postdoctoral positions appropriate to the start of an academic career.
A total of twelve Fellowships is offered but candidates are warned that competition is likely to be intense; last year over 500 applications were received.
Churchill College is offering: one stipendiary and one non-stipendiary Fellowship in the following Arts subjects: Social and Political Sciences, Economics, Law, Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science, Theology; one stipendiary and one non-stipendiary Fellowship in the Sciences; one Raymond and Beverley Sackler Research Fellowship, non-stipendiary, non-residential, open to postdoctoral research workers employed in the Schools of Biological Sciences, Physical Sciences, Clinical Medicine, and Technology of the University of Cambridge in the fields of medical and exact sciences, and who are aged 35 and under at the time of application.
Fitzwilliam College is offering: two stipendiary and one non-stipendiary in any of the following subjects: Archaeology and Anthropology, Architecture, Classics including Ancient History, Engineering, English, Geography, Geology and Geophysics, History of Art, Law and Criminology, and Social and Political Sciences (including Education).
New Hall is offering: one stipendiary Fellowship in Arts subjects; one non-stipendiary Fellowship in Science subjects (including Mathematics, Medicine, and Engineering).
Trinity Hall is offering: one stipendiary Fellowship in Arts and Social Sciences subjects; one stipendiary Fellowship in Science subjects (including Mathematics, Medicine, and Engineering).
Further particulars of all Fellowships may be downloaded from the Churchill College website at http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/applying/fellows/jrf/. The closing date for applications and references is 19 November 2007.