[Commlist] Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022

The School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Huddersfield 
invites expressions of interest from researchers seeking to apply for a 
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2022 hosted by the 
University. The deadline for submitting an Expression of Interest to the 
University is 6 June 2022.

THE FELLOWSHIP

The goal of MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships is to enhance the creative and 
innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to 
acquire new skills through advanced training, international, 
interdisciplinary and intersectoral mobility. MSCA Postdoctoral 
Fellowships will be open to excellent researchers of any nationality. 
Through the implementation of an original and personalised research 
project, the fellowships aim to equip researchers with new skills and 
competences to enable them to identify solutions to current and future 
challenges. Fellows are encouraged to reach out to society at large to 
make the results of their research visible to citizens.

The proposal is built around a concrete plan for 
training-through-research at a host organisation. In addition to 
research objectives and a plan to conduct the programme research, the 
proposal should include details of the researcher’s training 
requirements and career development needs (for example, training in 
transferable skills, secondments, industry placements, planning for 
publications, and participation in conferences and other networking 
events). The fellowships offers a highly competitive salary, family 
allowance (where applicable), as well as research and training expenses.

Fellowships are open to researchers of any nationality, including 
researchers wishing to reintegrate in Europe, researchers who are 
displaced by conflict as well as researchers with high potential aiming 
for a career restart in research.

THE RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT

Please note that an important element of the proposal is the research 
environment of the host. Applicants need to make a strong case for the 
suitability of the opportunities for mentoring, training and networking 
that can be provided to them by the School of Arts and Humanities at 
Huddersfield.

Media, Journalism and Film at the University of Huddersfield has a 
strong, international reputation for its research into media audiences, 
fan studies and participatory media, media industries, media 
work/labour, streaming media, digital cultures and film and television. 
The School of Arts and Humanities has an excellent track record of 
success in this scheme, and we have two Marie Curie post-doctoral 
fellows starting this year in Media, Journalism and Film who were 
successful in the last round of the scheme. If you want to informally 
discuss a project idea related to Media, Journalism and Film, please 
email Professor Catherine Johnson: (C.Johnson2 /at/ hud.ac.uk)

Information on research groups within the school and individual staff 
profiles can be found via the University’s research portal.

THE EXPRESSION OF INTEREST PROCESS

Expressions of interest should be sent to Professor Jessica Malay at 
(j.l.malay /at/ hud.ac.uk), to be received by 6 June 2022 and should consist of 
two pdf documents:

1. A two-page CV covering education, any relevant employment, 
publications, any awards, exhibitions etc.

2. A two-page draft statement of the research project to be undertaken 
and intended training/networking and career development activities.

Candidates are encouraged to think carefully about the career 
development opportunities offered by the fellowship and to indicate 
plans for training and networking. Secondments at other organisations, 
both inside and outside of academia, should be considered where they add 
value to the fellowship. Secondments can be for up to a third of the 
fellowship duration for European fellowships or a third of the duration 
of the outgoing phase for Global Fellowships and can be a single period 
or be divided into shorter periods. The scheme also offers an optional 
period of up to six months at the end of the fellowship (in addition to 
its standard maximum duration) to support researchers seeking a 
placement in the non-academic sector in an organisation established in 
an EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country, this is 
something else that candidates may consider wish to within their 
expression of interest.

A selection process within the School of Arts and Humanities will 
determine which proposals go forward to a full application and a 
programme of mentoring and application development will be offered to 
the selected candidates in the lead up to the call deadline (expected to 
be 14th September 2022). Please note that the assessment by the school 
will be based on the strength of the research proposed as well as on how 
the fellowship as a whole fits with the research environment and the 
training, mentoring and networking opportunities that can be offered by 
the school as host. The school will endeavor to provide all candidates 
with a decision on their expression of interest by 1 July 2022

CANDIDATE ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

At the call deadline, supported researchers must have a maximum of 8 
years full-time equivalent experience in research, measured from the 
date that the researcher was in a possession of a doctoral degree and 
certified by appropriate documents. Years of experience outside research 
and career breaks (e.g. due to parental leave), will not be taken into 
account. For nationals or long-term residents of EU Member States or 
Horizon Europe Associated Countries who wish to reintegrate to pursue 
their research career in EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated 
Countries, years of experience in research in third countries will not 
be considered in the above maximum.

Supported fellows must be postdoctoral researchers at the date of the 
call deadline, i.e. in a possession of a doctoral degree, defined as a 
successfully defended doctoral thesis, even if the doctoral degree has 
yet to be awarded.

Recruited researchers must comply with the following mobility rule: they 
must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, 
etc.) in the country of the beneficiary (for European Postdoctoral 
Fellowships), or the host organisation for the outgoing phase (for 
Global Postdoctoral Fellowships) for more than 12 months in the 36 
months immediately before the call deadline. For researchers wishing to 
reintegrate from a third country, there must be a direct mobility to an 
EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country.

Supported researchers can be of any nationality. However, candidates to 
the Global Postdoctoral Fellowship or researchers who wish to 
reintegrate to Europe, must be nationals or long-term residents of EU 
Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries.

All potential candidates are encouraged to check the full eligibility 
criteria which can be found via the in the HE MSCA PF Guide for 
Applicants document within the ‘Conditions and Documents’ section of the 
call page of the European Commission Funding and Tenders Portal.

Please note that applications that received a score below 70% in the 
2021 round are not eligible for resubmission in the 2022 round.

THE TWO FELLOWSHIP SCHEMES (EUROPEAN AND GLOBAL)

Two schemes are available under the call. Fellowships either can take 
place in Europe (i.e. in an EU Member State or a Horizon Europe 
Associated Country) or in a Third Country (not an EU Member State or 
Associated Country):

European Postdoctoral Fellowships

Held in EU Member States or Associated Countries and open to researchers 
either coming to Europe or an Associated Country from any country in the 
world or moving within Europe (including to/from an Associated Country). 
Applicants cannot have resided or carried out the main activity (work, 
studies, etc.) in the host country for more than 12 months in the last 
36 months before the call deadline. Fellowships last for a duration of 
12-24 months.

Global Postdoctoral Fellowships

Composed of an outgoing phase during which the researcher first 
undertakes mobility to a partner organisation in a Third Country (not an 
EU Member State or Associated Country) for a period of between 12 and 24 
months, followed by a mandatory 12-month return period to the single 
beneficiary located in a Member State or Associated Country (in this 
case the University of Huddersfield). Applicants must be a national or 
long-term resident of a Member State or Associated Country. Long-term 
residence means a period of legal and continuous residence within EU 
Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries of at least five 
consecutive years. The applicants must not have resided or carried out 
the main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the Third Country where the 
initial outgoing phase takes place for more than 12 months in the last 
36 months immediately before the call deadline. Candidates should name 
the third country partner organisation in their expression of interest.

FINANCIAL DETAILS

The salary and expense allocations for the fellowships are yet to be 
confirmed but the following amounts are anticipated at this stage 
(please note that the salary rate below is for the UK, during the 
outgoing phase of the Global Fellowship the salary rate is dependent on 
the particular rate applicable to the hosting Third Country):

UK Salary €6,955 per month

Mobility Allowance €600 per month

Family Allowance (where applicable) €660 per month

Research, training & networking Allowance €1,000 per month

(A long-term Leave allowance and special needs allowance is also offered 
where applicable).

PLEASE NOTE THAT THOUGH THE UK’S PARTICIPATION IN HORIZON EUROPE (THE 
PROGRAMME UNDER WHICH THE POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS ARE FUNDED) HAS NOT 
BEEN FORMALLY AGREED, THE EXPECTATION IS THAT THE UK WILL BE ABLE TO 
TAKE PART AS AN ASSOCIATED COUNTRY AND THAT UK INSTITUTIONS WILL BE 
ELIGIBLE TO SUBMIT CANDIDATES TO THE 2022 CALL).


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