University of Nottingham: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships in Philosophy

The Department of Philosophy and the Centre for Advanced Studies at Nottingham will support, through financial contribution and mentoring of the application, a candidate for the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships scheme.

           

            For details of the Scheme see

http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/ECF/ECF.cfm).

 

The deadline for applications to be submitted online via the Leverhulme Grant Application System is 4.00pm on 8^th March 2012. 

There is an internal process prior to that, designed to strengthen an application, with deadlines as follows:

9^th February 2012 first drafts to be submitted;

1^st March 2012 final versions, prior to submission to Leverhulme

            The Department invites expressions of interest from candidates whose work coheres with departmental strengths in:

·         Aesthetics and the philosophy of art, especially where these issues connect with psychology and the philosophy of mind

·         Ethics, meta ethics, and the application of ethical ideas to policy issues

·         Metaphysics and the Philosophy of the Sciences

·         Mind and language

·         Epistemology

Expressions of interest should consist of

1.    CV;

2.    Brief statement of eligibility;

3.    Two-page outline of research project based on the Leverhulme guidelines and including: aims, objectives, methodology

and outcome (e.g. publication plans).

            This should be sent as an email attachment to

Professor Gregory Currie

Director of Research

Department of Philosophy

Gregory.currie@Nottingham.ac.uk

And should arrive no later than Friday February 3^rd.

If the Department will support your application you will be informed by Monday February 6^th.

Informal inquires are welcome and should be directed to Greg Currie at the above email address.

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