UNU-WIDER Visiting PhD Fellowship Programme 2023/2024 for Doctoral Students
Apply now for the UNU-WIDER Visiting PhD Fellowship Programme 2023/2024 for Doctoral Students on Trueport your best worldwide scholarship website on the internet. UNU-WIDER Visiting PhD Fellowship Programme grants registered doctoral students the special opportunity to employ the resources and facilities at UNU-WIDER for their respective Ph.D. dissertation or thesis research on developing economies and to work with our researchers in fields of mutual interest. UNU-WIDER Visiting PhD Fellowship Programme 2023/2024 for Doctoral Students.
Visiting PhD fellows generally spend three consecutive months at UNU-WIDER before returning to their home institution. During the programme, fellows prepare one or more research papers and present a seminar on their research findings. They might also hold the opportunity to publish their research in the WIDER Working Paper Series.
Selection criteria
- Applicants must be enrolled in a PhD programme and have shown the ability to conduct research on developing economies. Candidates working in other social sciences may apply but should keep in mind that UNU-WIDER is an economics-focused institute.
- Candidates should be fluent in oral and written English and possess good quantitative and/or qualitative analytical skills.
- Applications from suitably qualified early-career, female, and developing country researchers are particularly encouraged.
- The programme is especially addressed to researchers at later stages of their PhD.
- The Visiting PhD Fellowship Programme is highly competitive and only a limited number of fellows can be accepted. In recent years, one percent of all applications have been successful.
Financial assistance
- When the fellowship is undertaken in Helsinki, UNU-WIDER provides a travel grant to cover the costs of travel to and from the location of your PhD granting institution, medical insurance (for medical and hospital services resulting from sickness and accident during your stay at UNU-WIDER), and a monthly stipend of EUR 1,850 to cover living expenses in Helsinki during the per
Application procedure
- UNU-WIDER only receives online applications for the Visiting PhD Fellowship Programme twice each year. Deadlines for submission of applications are 31 March and 30 September at 23:59 UTC+3 each year. When applying in September, you would be visiting UNU-WIDER for three months in the period of March-June of the following year and when applying in March, you would be visiting UNU-WIDER for three months during September-November of the same year.
Please note that the link to the online application form will only become active one month prior to the submission deadline (e.g., application procedures start on 1 March and 1 September of each year).
Application Deadline: March 31, 2023
UNU-WIDER Visiting PhD Fellowship Programme 2023/2024 for Doctoral Students
