Section Two: Postdoctoral Fellowships – Individual institutions (including JRFs)

Postdoctoral Fellowships funded by individual institutions including universities, colleges and specialist research centres are also available. Some are linked to broad subject areas or disciplines, others are more specialised. Institutions will advertise through websites such as www.jobs.ac.uk, the media (The Guardian, Times Higher Education Supplement etc), and their own websites.

Junior Research Fellowships

Cambridge and Oxford Colleges regularly advertise Junior Research Fellowships (JRFs) in a range of subjects for varying numbers of years. They are advertised in The Reporter as well as in some instances on jobs.ac.uk. They vary from college to college as to subject area, number offered, number of years of tenure, pay, obligations, and method and timing of application; but some colleges now share an online application system. Timing of the announcements also varies from college to college and year to year, so it is difficult to predict exactly when they will be advertised. For good information and advice from current JRFs about the nature of such fellowships and applying for them, see https://www.careers.cam.ac.uk/junior-research-fellowships-jrfs.

EURAXESS

Many large research projects involve the creation of postdoctoral research fellowships. These fellowships usually involve working with collaboratively with the projects’ PI and usually last for the duration of the project. EURAXESS lists many such postdoctoral fellowship opportunities available across Europe: https://www.euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/search