[KineJapan] British Postdoctoral Fellowships - Deadline 4th May 2020

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Dear colleagues,

The Department of Cultures and Languages at Birkbeck, University of
London is inviting expressions of interest in a British Academy
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Japanese Studies. These Fellowships are
designed to support outstanding early career researchers in the
humanities and social sciences. We are now inviting applications for
the 2020-21 outline round of these fellowships, for information
available here.

The Department brings together a community of scholars with shared
interests in interdisciplinary topics and transnational phenomena,
covering French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish-speaking
cultures. Our Japanese section welcomes applications from candidates
with research interests in Japanese cinema, visual culture,
comparative literature, transculturality, gender, history and memory,
minorities and diversity.

This Fellowship is subject to a Departmental and also internal College
competition (please see the link for further details). All applicants
must get agreement from an academic in their proposed host department
to act as a mentor and follow the timeline below:

i. Please contact your potential mentor by asap.

ii. Please complete this pro-forma describing your research and submit
it, along with your CV, to your potential mentor.  It may need a
number of iterations before you’re both happy with it, but the
finalised version needs to be with your Mentor by 5pm, Monday 4th May
2020. They will submit these, together with a short statement of
support, to the Departmental panel for consideration.

iii. The Departmental panel will meet shortly after this deadline to
decide who is put forward for consideration by the College Research
Strategy Group (RSG) and you will be notified of the outcome.

iv. If you are chosen to go forward, your Mentor will work with you
further on your pro-forma.

v. The RSG makes an ultimate decision on who is put forward to the
British Academy, and they will notify you of the outcome and any
feedback shortly after the meeting (normally in early July).  If you
are chosen to be put forward to the British Academy, your Mentor and
School Research Manager will help you complete the full application.



All applications will be considered on merit, candidates will need to
demonstrate in their CV a clear research trajectory and some standing
in the field, as such it is extremely unusual for Birkbeck to select a
candidate without any relevant post-doctoral experience.


Informal enquiries are welcome and should be directed to Dr. Marcos
Centeno (m.centeno at bbk.ac.uk).