Interdisciplinary Social and Biomedical Sciences Fellowships - MRC-ESRC
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Medical Research Council (MRC) are committed to promoting interdisciplinary research training and continue to welcome applications that allow candidates to develop research skills that successfully combine the approaches of the medical and social sciences.
The ESRC-MRC Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition is not being run in 2011-12 and has been replaced by alternative schemes, detailed below.
For applications at the interface of ESRC and MRC remits, which would previously have been submitted under the ESRC-MRC Interdisciplinary Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme, applicants are encouraged to apply to the most appropriate Research Council via the following routes:
MRC Strategic Skills fellowships
Early career applications are welcome to the following MRC schemes:
- Career development award in biostatistics (external site)
- Population health scientist fellowship (external site)
- Early career fellowship in economics of health (external site)
See the MRC website for more information on the MRC Strategic Skills fellowships (external site). The closing date for the above schemes is 6 October 2011.
ESRC Future Research Leaders scheme
Interdisciplinary applications to these schemes must include research that is of interest to both councils and which requires training and application of methodologies of both the medical and social and economic sciences. Applications are particularly encouraged via the routes above in several joint MRC and ESRC priority areas:
- Understanding individual behaviour and informing interventions
- Analysis of large or complex datasets (including mixed methods development)
- Lifelong health and wellbeing
- Disease prevention and health promotion
The closing date for the ESRC Future Research Leaders Scheme is 15 September 2011.
Following submission of eligible interdisciplinary applications to either council, the MRC and ESRC will, where appropriate, jointly assess and fund these proposals under an extension of the cross-council funding agreement. Any jointly funded fellowships will be offered under the standard terms and conditions of the awarding council.