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Fellowships
Good fits and up29 countries
Strong fit·closes 20 Nov, in 8 days·added 8 Octtopic 9/10 · role 9/10
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Your international law and peace discourse thesis fits perfectly with a Law School host, and this independent fellowship lets you design your own research agenda.
Strong fit·closes 20 Nov, in 8 days·added 8 Octtopic 8/10 · role 10/10
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
You design and run your own project here, so your decolonial peace-discourse work fits this independent fellowship format well.
Strong fit·closes 20 Nov, in 8 days·added 8 Octtopic 8/10 · role 9/10
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
An independent Leverhulme fellowship lets you define your own decolonial/critical theory project within humanities.
Strong fit·closes 30 Nov, in 18 days·added 8 Octtopic 9/10 · role 9/10
University of Warwick, Coventry, University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Your international law/peace discourse thesis fits a Law School Leverhulme perfectly, and this independent fellowship with a Warwick mentor matches your best-rated role shape.
Strong fit·closes 7 Dec, in 25 days·added 11 Octtopic 7/10 · role 9/10
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain
An MSCA-cofunded independent fellowship hosted at an Institute for Advanced Study, open to any Humanities/Social Sciences topic, matches your Clare College JRF pattern.
Strong fit·closes 3 Dec, in 21 days·added 6 days agotopic 7/10 · role 9/10
Nuffield College, Oxford, United Kingdom
Your IR/international law critique fits the political theory and IR strands welcomed, and this independent fellowship mirrors the JRFs you liked.
Strong fit·closes 16 Nov, in 4 days·added 9 Octtopic 7/10 · role 9/10
Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy (IFSH), Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Your critical peace-discourse work fits loosely, but the program's core topics lean toward policy-oriented security studies rather than critical/discourse theory.
Strong fit·closes 15 Dec, in 33 days·added 28 Octtopic 6/10 · role 8/10
University of Cambridge, UK, United Kingdom
Peace/conflict theme echoes your thesis, but this wants ethnographic fieldwork on contemporary religion, not your textual-discourse method.
Good fit·closes 30 Nov, in 18 days·added 8 Octtopic 5/10 · role 9/10
Saarland University, Saarbrücken - Germany
Reparation/colonial-harm themes echo your decolonial work, but the required "things"/material-artefacts focus sits awkwardly against your text-based discourse analysis.
Annual schemes to plan for
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Government of Ireland Postdoctoral FellowshipIrish university · Recent PhD
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20Nov
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (York internal round)University of York · Thesis submitted within 4 years of the deadline; host pays 50%
8 days
20Nov
APOSTD (Generalitat Valenciana postdoctoral contracts, modality B)University or research centre in the Valencian Community · PhD obtained on or after 1 Jan 2020 (or thesis defended and pending formal award); modality B is for doctorates obtained outside the Valencian Community moving into one; also needs accredited research activity (e.g. two completed R&D+i projects, or an ERC-funded project). Known in some university paperwork by the prior code name CIAPOS — same scheme
8 days
30Nov
Käte Hamburger Kolleg c:o/re Fellowships 2027/28RWTH Aachen · Postdoctoral to senior; up to 12 months from Oct 2027
18 days
Jobs
Strong fit·closes 6 Jan, in 55 days·added 26 Octtopic 9/10 · role 9/10
Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom
Decolonial and Global IR framing in political theory/sociology track fits your peace-discourse and imperial-governance work closely.
Strong fit·closes 10 Dec, in 28 days·added 2 days agotopic 8/10 · role 9/10
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM), Madrid, Spain
As an independent national fellowship, you could design your own decolonial/peace-discourse project, much like the Cambridge JRFs you liked.
Strong fit·closes 22 Nov, in 10 days·added 19 Octtopic 9/10 · role 4/10
London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
Your decolonial, anti-imperial and feminist epistemology expertise is a near-perfect match, but the role is teaching-heavy, not research-led.
Strong fit·closes 10 Dec, in 28 days·added 1 Novtopic 8/10 · role 10/10
Universidad del País Vasco / EHU, Basque Country, Spain
Ramón y Cajal lets you define your own independent research agenda, fitting your decolonial/critical theory expertise well.
Strong fit·closes 26 Nov, in 14 days·added 10 Octtopic 7/10 · role 9/10
Universidad del País Vasco / EHU, Basque Country, Spain
This is a competitive independent fellowship where you'd design and host your own decolonial/peace-discourse project, but you'd need to secure a host group first.
Good fit·closes 16 Dec, in 34 days·added todaytopic 6/10 · role 4/10
UCL, London, United Kingdom
Your peace-discourse/IR thesis fits global politics broadly, but this teaching-heavy lectureship with module convening and admin leaves little independent research time.
Good fit·closes 1 Dec, in 19 days·added 8 Octtopic 4/10 · role 7/10
London School of Economics, UK, United Kingdom
This role wants empirical fieldwork-based development research; your discourse/archival methodology doesn't match despite shared gender and conflict keywords.
Good fit·closes 23 Nov, in 11 days·added 2 Novtopic 6/10 · role 6/10
Aarhus University, Aarhus - Denmark
Human security/governmentality overlaps your critical security work, but this prefers ethnographic fieldwork, not your textual/discourse method.
Good fit·closes 1 Dec, in 19 days·added 6 days agotopic 6/10 · role 3/10
UCL, London, Hybrid, United Kingdom
Your critical security/peace work overlaps IR, but this permanent teaching-only post offers no research time or independent agenda.
Good fit·closes 30 Nov, in 18 days·added 6 days agotopic 6/10 · role 6/10
Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
Critical data/AI studies overlaps your algorithm work, but the digital production and empirical digital methods ask sit outside your theory-based skillset.
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