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Call for expressions of interest

Geography at Newcastle invites expressions of interest for Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie individual fellowships. The goal of the Individual Fellowships is to enhance the creative and innovative potential of experienced researchers, wishing to diversify their individual competence in terms of skill acquisition through advanced training, international and intersectoral mobility. 

Individual Fellowships provide opportunities to researchers of any nationality to acquire and transfer new knowledge and to work on research and innovation in Europe (EU Member States and Horizon 2020 Associated Countries) and beyond. The scheme particularly supports the return and (re)integration of European researchers from outside Europe and those who have previously worked here, as well as researchers displaced by conflict outside the EU and Horizon 2020 Associated Countries. It also promotes the career restart of individual researchers who show great potential. These Fellowships can also include a secondment period of up to 3 or 6 months in another organisation in Europe, where this would boost the impact of the fellowship. This scheme is meant to support the best, most promising individual researchers from anywhere in the world.

Only experienced researchers can apply. This means you will have your doctoral degree or at least four years' full-time research experience by the time of the call deadline (12 September 2018). See pages 13-16 here: 
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/data/ref/h2020/wp/2018-2020/main/h2020-wp1820-msca_en.pdf

Applications must be jointly made by the researcher and the host organisation and supervisor. The final submission deadline to the scheme is 12 September 2018, however, you will need to be working on your application well in advance of this deadline. 

Geography at Newcastle (http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/geography/) is one of the leading sites for geographical research in the UK. Our research community comprises more than 100 academics, support staff and postgraduates who generate a vibrant intellectual environment. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework in the UK, 80% of Newcastle's geography research outputs were graded 4* or 3* ('world-leading' or 'internationally excellent'), ranking us 4th nationally overall for the quality of our research outputs. The impact of our research was also highly recognised, with Newcastle ranked equal third nationally (70% of our impact-related work was scored 4*, the top score of 'world-leading').

Geographers at Newcastle encourage applicants working in all areas of geography and in particular, we are eager to support scholars working in the following fields/topics:

Human Geography:
Critical geopolitics
Militarism and military geographies
Race, ethnicity, religion and migration;
Childhood, youth, families and the lifecourse;
Gender, sexualities and social transformations;
Critical understandings of cities and urban life
Local and regional development; 
Geographies of consumption;
Global production networks;
Sustainable economies;
Labour, work and employment

Physical geography:
Human-environment interactions
Quaternary environmental change
Aquatic ecology and food-web dynamics
Rock avalanche and landslides
Fluvial geomorphology and river dynamics
Evolution and stability of the Antarctic/Greenland ice sheets
Glacier responses to climate change
Tectonic geomorphology
Landscape evolution


Prospective Fellows interested in pursuing postdoctoral research in Geography at Newcastle University are invited to submit an expression of interest to the Director of Research, Professor Peter Hopkins ([log in to unmask]) by 15th June 2018. This should include a CV and a 2 page outline proposal with the name of your proposed supervisor.