Targeted Postdoctoral Research Fellowships: Macroeconomics Of Financial Sector Regulation - Protecting The Economy From Finance Sector Shocks And Enabling Sustainable Growth
The ESRC is launching an exciting new call to fund a cohort of one year Postdoctoral Research Fellowships as part of its Capacity Building Initiative in Macroeconomics in partnership with Her Majesty's Treasury, HMT. The Fellows will be expected to undertake substantive new research which will address the macroeconomics of financial sector regulation and macro-prudential policy as detailed below. This will provide an excellent career development opportunity for those at a relatively early stage of their academic career who can demonstrate great potential in social science research and provide timely and important research for a pressing area of policy.
This call is distinct and separate from the standard ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships open scheme, as in contrast it will provide the opportunity for the fellows to undertake substantive new research.
Call for proposals
Macro-prudential policies aim to limit stress in financial systems so as to avoid output losses from financial instability. A wide range of policies impact on financial market instability, including those on tax, regulation, monetary policy, exchange rate and current account imbalances. As set out in detail in the scheme specification, the highlighted areas of interest for postdoctoral research fellowships to potentially cover are wide ranging and could include:
- Theory
- Method
- Early warning
- Macro-economics of financial sector regulation
- Macro-prudential policies
- Regulatory regimes
- Wider institutional features
Note: it is not expected that fellowships will range across all of the above issues, individually or collectively. Rather, researchers should select from the above particular areas where capacity can be developed through their fellowship. The ESRC will, with its funding partner, HMT, seek to ensure a reasonable coverage of issues from the above areas, subject to the quality of proposals.
Proposals for Research Fellowships should have start dates from from January 2011. ESRC are expecting to fund up to 10 Fellows, dependent on quality.
Submitting an application
Applications must be submitted via the Joint Electronic Submissions system (Je-S) and as such, all applicants must be Je-S registered. If you are not currently Je-S registered and intend to apply please ensure that you allow sufficient time for registration as no extensions to the deadline will be permitted. Hard-copy, faxed or email applications will not be accepted.
The deadline for proposals is 4pm on Thursday 12 August 2010.
Supporting Information
Contact:
Any query regarding the scheme should be directed to ESRC by emailing MacroResearchFellows@esrc.ac.uk
2010 ESRC/MRC Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition
Call closed.
Applications for this scheme must address the interests of both the ESRC and the MRC and must be genuinely interdisciplinary in approach. Applicants should ensure their proposal engages with either the ESRC's Research Challenges or MRC’s strategic priorities.
The purpose of an ESRC/MRC Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship is to provide an opportunity to undertake limited new research (not exceeding 25 per cent time and cost of the fellowship) and/or additional research linked to the PhD produce publications, disseminate research findings and gain additional research related skills and training.
While proposals are invited from any sub-discipline of the social or medical sciences each year areas of particular interest to the two councils are identified. The Priority areas for 2010 are:
- Lifelong Health and Wellbeing
- Understanding Individual Behaviour
- Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (including Health Inequalities)
- Research using (i) large social sciences and (ii) health research and/or clinical research data sets (including e-health records)
If you require direct information from ESRC please use the following email: ptdenquiries@esrc.ac.uk