Middlesex University London is pleased to announce the British Council Early Career Fellowships for the 2024/25 academic year.
Apply for the Early Career Fellowships Scheme is under the International Science Partnerships Fund (ISPF), managed by the UK Department for Science, Innovation, and Technology and delivered by the British Council.
In total, 4 post-doctoral early career researchers (12-month each) will be fully funded to research related to Artificial Intelligence (AI) or STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) as a visiting fellow from Taiwan.
Applicants are expected to have completed their PhD recently or are to receive PhD soon.. To promote Women in STEM initiative, female applicants have a priority.
- Payment (stipent or bursary (ie. free of tax)): £ 34,650 per year
- Return economy-class travel between Taiwan and UK
- Visa and insurance / NHS surcharge costs
- Related research expenses, e.g. travel, attednig conferences and research activities within the UK
- Childcare cost if bring children to the UK
Initial Express of Interest (EoI) can be made by sending a full CV to Prof. Xiaohong W. Gao with "Fellowships" as the Subject title.
The deadline for EoI is 31 July 2024.
- Computing in medical applications e.g. early cancer detection (lung, breast, skin, oesophagus, gastrointestinal tract ) or any medical applications
- Nature disaster prevention management e.g., flood prevention, fresh air management, global temperature management
- Digital twins technology in healthcare and climate change
- Computer vision, e.g., colour vision, Real-time 3D object modelling built upon AI network of YOLOv7 (e.g. 3D reconstruction from 2D videos, object detection/tracking/segmentation, etc.
- AI technology, e.g. statistical learning, neural network learning, deep and transfer learning, feature extraction and classification, knowledge reasoning, etc.
To apply for British Council Early Career Fellowships, you mush
- be a passport holder and permanent resident in Taiwan
- be an early career researcher, i.e. not holding a permanent academic post nor a post with a research-related element (e.g. supervising PhDs, submitting grant proposals)
- Not currently in receipt of financial support or funding towards any other programme in the UK from any other sources
- Meet the English language requirement of the UK HEI if applicable
- have received your PhD or to complete PhD before arrival in the UK
- be active in the field with work experience or with a proven interest in the proposed subject area
- demonstrate that you are willing to contribute in the future to capacity-building and socio-economic advancement through the benefits achieved after completing the fellowship programme at Middlesex University London
- agree to maintain contact with the British Council for purposes of monitoring and evaluation during and after your fellowship
- demonstrate in your application a plan and a passion to engage other early career researchers in Taiwan
There are 4 fellows (12-month each) available. Female applicants are welcome and will have priority.
You must agree for your personal data to be shared with the British Council, who will be jointly responsible with Middlesex University London for allocating the Fellowships.
Please email any team members STEMScholarships@mdx.ac.uk or Prof. Xiaohong W. Gao with "Fellowships" as the Subject if you have any question.