Call for postdoctoral fellowships within the Irish programme DOROTHY
DOROTHY is a postdoctoral research programme open to researchers from all disciplines who wish to focus on research into public health crises.
Fellowships provide an opportunity for an international experience and reintegration to Ireland, offers excellent training, career development and networking opportunities, and gives applicants an opportunity to provide innovative solutions to public health crises.
Further to the ministerial announcement on 6 July, the Irish Research Council, in collaboration with the Health Research Board (HRB) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and co-funded by the European Union, is working towards the forthcoming launch of the DOROTHY COFUND programme. The programme will break down barriers between different academic disciplines by driving collaboration between researchers through funding research which will shed light on public health crises from wide-ranging perspectives. 25 fellows will be recruited through 36-month fellowships with all nationalities welcome, including all researchers based in Ireland.
Scope and Focus
Public health crises are too complex to be tackled in silos. Responding to the need to equip European societies with experts who are specially trained to address these challenges in a cooperative fashion, we have designed DOROTHY COFUND to recruit, train and launch the careers of 25 excellent fellows through 36-month fellowships.
Fellowships will have an international outgoing phase of 18 months, followed by a return phase to Ireland of 18 months. Fellows will be encouraged to include a non-academic secondment. Two recruitment calls will be run. The programme will assist fellows in accelerating their careers through excellent training and networking opportunities in the Irish and EU innovation ecosystem.
Eligibility
DOROTHY is open to applicants from all nationalities, provided they haven’t resided in the outgoing phase country for more than 12 months in the three years immediately before the call deadline and to all disciplines, provided that their research topic relates to public health crises. Applicants must be an Experienced Researcher (ER). The definition of ER in the H2020 MSCA programme will be applied: ERs must, at the call deadline, be in possession of a doctoral degree or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience.
Who to do before the call launch
1 | Identify a topic
DOROTHY is open to applicants from all nationalities and disciplines, provided that their research topic relates to public health crises. Research areas will include, but will not be limited to, epidemiology, engineering of materials, health psychology, health economics, social history, medical and health humanities, and philosophy.
2 | Engage in international mobility
All DOROTHY projects start with an outgoing phase in an institution outside of Ireland (18 months followed by reintegration into an Irish HEI). Applicants from all nationalities are welcome provided they haven’t resided in the outgoing phase country for more than 12 months in the three years immediately before the call deadline.
3 | Inclusion of a non-academic secondment
In addition to identifying two academic supervisors in Ireland and abroad, applicants are encouraged to include a non-academic secondment (between 3 and 6 months). Should a secondment not have been envisaged at proposal stage, it can be inserted at a later stage, in agreement with the supervisory panel. A non-exhaustive list of interested placement hosts will be available on the project website.
4 | Satisfy Eligibility Criteria
DOROTHY welcomes applicants from all over the world. Applicants must be an Experienced Researcher (ER). The definition of ER in the H2020 MSCA programme will be applied: ERs must, at the call deadline, be in possession of a doctoral degree or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience.
5 | Submission Requirement
Submissions will be via SmartSimple submission portal.
Applications should be completed in English and include the following:
>Applicant details
>Project description
>Ethics self-assessment form
>Applicant CV
>IRC privacy notice
The Call is open until May 23rd 2022
More information at https://dorothy.ie/about/