INDIAN COUNCIL OF SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH

(Ministry of Human Resource Development)

Fellowships  (Senior Fellowships /General Fellowships)

        ICSSR invites proposals for financial support through  Fellowships-General(Post Doctoral) & Senior(Senior Social Scientist) for the year 2009-10  The research proposals may belong to anyone of the social science disciplines or may be interdisciplinary in nature.  The recognized disciplines are :

(i)  Economics/Commerce/Management/Business Administration   (ii) Sociology and Social Anthropology/Social Work/Demography/Gender Studies;   (iii) Political Science/International Relations/Geography/Public Administration;  (iv) Psychology/Education/Criminology;   (v) Others- Linguistics/Law etc.

        Invitation of proposals for financial support under above disciplines includes for Northeast Region (NER) also. 

The applicants are requested to indicate under which clubbing of disciplines their proposals falls.

 

ELIGIBILITY             

1.         For  fellowships a scholar must have Ph.D. or equivalent publication and the CV must indicate capability of independent research;

2.         Age:  For  General Fellowship-50 years, and for Senior Fellowship-there is no age bar;

 

AFFILIATION

The applicant shall be affiliated to Universities/Colleges/Institutions recognized and funded by Central/State Government.  In case of other institutions/NGOs/Registered Societies, the applicant will have to furnish additional details in accordance with Annexure V of the Research Project Booklet.  Affiliation will be granted to only such institutions/NGOs which satisfy the conditions laid down in our format.

VALUE AND DURATION

Detailed financial informations about  General and Senior Fellowships may be seen in the concerned schemes on our website.  Maximum duration of a  General and Senior Fellowships is two years extendable by one more year only in exceptional cases.  Salary protected cases are strictly for two years for regular employees.

 

F              Fellowships  with Salary Protection 

 

 

The applicants shall have put in at least two years continues service  in the institution before they apply and the institution shall certify that it will maintain their lien on the post during the period of the fellowship and allow them to return to it after the period of fellowship is over

 

LAST DATE

Last date for submitting research proposals for GENERAL AND SENIOR Fellowships is 30^th June 2009.  Applications which are received after the deadline date or are incomplete in any respect will be rejected.  The proposal which qualifies the first round of screening by experts in the Council will be recommending for a interaction with the subject experts.  A communication in this regard shall be sent to the applicants whose proposals will qualify for interaction.  We expect to communicate final decision to successful candidates by August/September 2009.

 

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Complete application, as per the prescribed format, for all categories would include; (i) five copies of research proposal,  (ii) five copies of 500-word summary of the research proposal,    (iii) five copies of bio-data in prescribed format,  (iv) Letter of consent from the affiliating organization, and (vi) document containing the profile of the affiliating organization, in case of NGO/Registered Society/Unrecognized Institution only.  Please see Annexures from I  to  V in our Fellowship  booklet. For Salary protected Fellowships, Scholar should apply thru Employer

 

   Formats for research proposals with all details in respect of

 General and Senior Fellowships can be

downloaded from our website: www.icssr.org

 

 

 

Applications must be sent by registered mail, acknowledgement due, or through courier.

ICSSR does not accept applications by FAX or  E-mail

Mailed or couriered applications must be postmarked not later than the deadline date.  If the deadline falls on a weekend or a public holiday, the next working day applies.