The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is offering a Postdoctoral Fellowship Program for recent PhD graduates, giving them the chance to develop research tools, resources, and services while exploring new career opportunities in the USA and Canada.
The CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program offers recent PhD graduates the chance to develop research tools, resources, and services while exploring new career opportunities. CLIR Postdoctoral Fellows work on projects that forge and strengthen connections among collections, educational technologies, and current research. Host institutions benefit from fellows’ field-specific expertise by gaining insights into their collections’ potential uses and users, scholarly information behaviours, and current teaching and learning practices. CLIR solicits and facilitates the host and fellowship application processes. Fellows are then hired directly by host institutions.
Worth of Award
Remuneration varies by sponsoring institution and by type of fellowship; benefits and some travel expenses are routinely provided. Fellowships are for either one, two, or three years.
Eligibility
- Applicants must have received a PhD in a discipline no more than five years before applying (i.e., after January 1, 2015, for the 2020-2022 cycle); if a PhD has not yet been received, all requirements for the degree (including dissertation defence and final dissertation editing) must be completed before starting the fellowship.
- Applicants can be citizens of any country but MUST be legally permitted to work in the US and/or Canada between 2020 and 2022 in order to be eligible to apply.
How to Apply
Applicants must register and establish a personal user ID and password within the application system. A complete application consists of the following items:
- a completed and submitted the online application
- a current curriculum vitae for the applicant
- a document containing the applicant’s written response to a question about the ways research methodologies and/or the dissemination of scholarship in their fields have changed.
- three names of reference providers and their contact information
- graduate school transcripts
Important Note: You must hit the “review and submit” button once your application is complete in order to receive an email confirmation of your submission.
Deadline: Applications close on January 10, 2020.