“Future Earth” Early-Career Fellowship

发布人：关天艺 发布日期：2022-03-24

The Early-Career Fellowship (ECF) is a pilot program, which has been launched and organized by Future Earth (FE) Global Secretariat Hub China (GSH-China). The mission of the ECF program is to provide a forum in which early-career researchers from various disciplines (e.g., natural, social, and human sciences) can share their interdisciplinary research, pursue unique collaborations, and build a network of colleagues who can share their interest in improving the global sustainable development goals. Since the early years are critical in shaping a researcher’s career, the ECF funds are relatively unrestricted and the recipients will enjoy sufficient independence, flexibility and a built-in support network during his/her tenure as ECF fellow.

 

Program Details

Future Earth convenes researchers and scholars from all parts of the world, across different societal and academic sectors, and across the natural, social, and human sciences. Future Earth initiates and supports international collaboration programs between these researchers and stakeholders. The aim is to identify and generate the integrated knowledge needed for successful transformations towards societies that provide good and fair lives for all within a stable and resilient Earth system. Future Earth uses a rigorous transdisciplinary research and systems thinking approach throughout its work in which basic and applied research are combined to generate actionable, solution-oriented knowledge to inform and guide decisions by policy makers and practitioners at all levels of governance. The Future Earth’s ECF program will select outstanding early-career scholars who has obtained their doctoral degree or is in the last year of their doctoral program in any discipline of natural, social, and human sciences clearly related to global sustainable development.

 

Award Details

Each of the recipients is entitled to receive a scholarship of 30,000-50,000 Chinese Yuan (RMB). The scholarship can be used for research-related expenses, including professional travel, professional development courses, conferences, or any other costs directly related to the fellow’s research. The use of these funds for any other expenses requires pre-approval from the FE GSH-China.  

 

Eligibility

At the time of application, the applicants must:

  • Be an early-career researcher/scientist/postdoc, etc. who is in the last year of their Ph.D. program or has received their doctoral degree (or equivalent) within the past 5 years and born on or after January 1, 1987.
  • Be in the field of social sciences, engineering sciences, earth and life sciences, or interdisciplinary scientific fields clearly relevant to the global sustainable development.
  • Having an experience of more than 12 months of overseas study/work/research at a college or university, research institute, etc.
  • Having a collaborator in the related disciplines at Sun Yat-sen University (GSH China may assist the applicant to find a collaborator).

 

The successful applicants are expected to have the following qualities:

  1. A strong scientific and/or technical background and preferable to have received prestigious scholarship/fellowship in the past.
  2. Strong research background with a clear alignment towards global sustainable development goals.
  3. Experienced and/or demonstrated the willingness to work in an interdisciplinary field or participated in interdisciplinary collaborative activities.
  4. Efficient verbal and written communication skills to address the scientific and non-scientific audiences.
  5. The successful applicants should have good organizational and interpersonal skills for successful accomplishment of the projects.

 

Application materials & Process

 

To apply for the ECF Program, please include the following documents/information in your application:

Latest CV (PDF): Must include educational/work experiences (in reverse chronological order), publications/patents/awards/projects etc.

 

A brief statement addressing the following:

  1. A description of applicant’s research works and projects, which must include the primary discipline and a statement on how  applicant’s research intersects with the objectives of sustainable  development (800-1000 words).
  2. A description of the proposed research work and the goals applicant plan to accomplish under the ECF program (800-1000 words).
  3. Names and contact details of 3 referees (supervisor/collaborator/anyone who is aware of applicant’s research and skills)
  4. A supporting letter from their current supervisor, mentor or collaborator is highly recommended.

 

Applications will be evaluated based on research originality, productivity, and potential as well as the committee’s assessment on how likely the applicant will be benefitted from the ECF program and will contribute to the FE’s objectives. Efforts will be made to balance representation across different disciplines and gender. The selected ECF fellows will need to fill out couple of forms to receive the scholarship, and a FE science officer will be assigned to the selected ECF fellows to follow up periodically to provide support.

 

The deadline for applying the ECF program is May 15, 2022.

 

For inquiries/sending application: please contact GSH-China (gaozhm3@mail.sysu.edu.cn)

Email format: Application for FE-ECF Program (Year)+(Name)+(Nationality)