Eligibility and Conditions

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The Fellowships are intended for researchers at an early stage of their career; they offer three years of funded full-time PhD study or 3 months of funded training with generous living, travel and mobility allowances.

The living allowance will be paid as a taxable salary to the Fellows. The value is approximately £24 000 (£17-£18,000 after tax, national insurance etc) per year for the duration of the Fellowship (pro rata for 3 month Fellows). A generous mobility allowance (approximately £5000 sterling per year)is made to all Fellows and a one off payment is made to 3 Year Fellows for career exploration. Details will be dependent on individual circumstances and will be discussed with successful applicants.

Fellows will be appointed as employees of the University where they are registered for their PhD award and like other staff they will be provided with working space, use of a computer and full access to the library and other University resources. Fellows will be issued with a job description and employment contact which will detail the nature of their relationship with the University.

Eligibility

To be eligible to apply, you must meet the following criteria (note this information is for indicative guidance only - for comprehensive details please refer to? the EST Handbook):

• you can be a national of any country, but normally no more than 30% of researcher months per site may be allocated to non-EU nationals;
• If you are a UK citizen you must have lived and worked/studied in a country outside the EU Member and Associated States for at least four of the last five years immediately prior to your appointment;
• If you are a UK citizen as well as the citizen of another country (dual nationality) you must not have lived, worked or studied in the UK for more than 12 months in the last 5 years immediately prior to your appointment;
• If you are not a UK citizen you must not have lived, worked or studied in the UK for more than 12 months in the last 3 years immediately prior to your appointment;
• you must have obtained a degree which entitles you to undertake doctoral studies but not have obtained a PhD qualification or equivalent;
• you should not have had more than 4 years full-time research experience since obtaining a qualification that gives access to doctoral studies;
• the subject area of your qualifications must be relevant to BIOTRACS.
• Before making any application check your eligibility here

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Candidates whose first language is not English must demonstrate that their English language skills are sufficient to meet the specific demands of their study.? Candidates will normally be expected to have obtained either the British Council IELTS with a score of 6.0 (with not less than 5.5 in Listening & Reading and 5.0 in Speaking & Writing skills) or paper based TOEFL with a score of 600 (with 4.0 on the Test of Written English TWE) or computer based TOEFL with a score of 220 (with an 'essay' rating of 4.0).