Non-Stipendiary College Associations for Research Staff

The College proposes to elect up to twelve non-stipendiary Research/Junior Research Fellows in Humanities and Social Sciences from 1 October 2024.         

Candidates will be required to be engaged in research, with a full-time University of Oxford/Wolfson contract of employment for the duration of the Fellowship.

The College is seeking to appoint up to 10 new Research Fellows, from amongst existing postdoctoral members of the University, to start at the college in September 2024. Successful candidates will be elected to a College Research Fellowship for a fixed term of three years, subject to a review at the end of the first year.

The College is particularly looking to recruit within its themes of Cellular Life and Environmental Change (each recruiting up to 3 Research Fellowships), and Ethics & Values and Innovation & Entrepreneurship (each recruiting up to two Research Fellowships). Candidates for each of these may be drawn from across the University’s Divisions, with the College’s themes inclusive and broad in their conception.

Fellows will be expected to engage in the life of Reuben College, and as part of this to engage in regular activities at the College and in the support of its postgraduate students.

The College is seeking to appoint up to 5 new Official Fellows, from amongst existing University researchers and professional staff, to start at the college in September 2024.

The College is particularly looking to recruit within its themes of Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Ethics & Values, AI & Machine Learning, and in Public and Community Engagement with Research & GLAM liaison. Candidates for each of these may be drawn from across the University’s Divisions, with the College’s themes inclusive and broad in their conception.

Fellows will be expected to engage in the life of Reuben College, and as part of this to engage in regular activities at the College and in the support of its postgraduate students.

Research Members of Common Room are elected through an application process led by the Research Coordinator. Membership gives post-doctoral researchers a chance to contribute to and enjoy college life. The application process occurs annually and applications are made to the Academic Administrator, with a reference and statement as to how one would contribute to the life of the College, and are approved by the Research Coordinator.

Membership is renewable annually, coterminous with holding a (paid) research post in the University and attending an annual meeting.

RMCR are required to act as College Advisors. The College Academic Office will assign a maximum of 9 students to each member.

University cards allowing access to University buildings and the Bodleian as well as various online access are distributed through the members’ departments only. Kellogg will add a College ‘link’ on University cards to enable access to the College Hub.

RMCR are offered the use of meeting rooms, and short-term accommodation when available. Membership comes with discounted lunches and Guest Night Dinners as well as being invited to College-wide seminars and events.

Common Room members are proposed to Academic Committee by Official Fellows and agreed by Governing Body. Members can be non-academics, or academics whose standing is not regarded as of a Fellowship level. The membership is £60 per annum.

The length of membership is one year and renewable annually with payment.

If invited by the President or Senior Tutor and approved by the Academic Committee, Common Room Members may act as student advisors, in which case the £60 fee will be waived. The College Academic Office will assign around 6 students to each member.

Common Room Members will receive discounted lunches and Guest Night Dinners as well as being invited to College-wide seminars and events

Kellogg does not offer University cards to Common Room Members.

St Antony’s offers the opportunity to apply for Associate Membership to anyone who does not already have an affiliation with any college in Oxford and is on the payroll of any of those departments from which the college recruits graduate students, essentially all departments in the Social Sciences Division (plus the Oxford Martin School) and the Faculty of History and Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in the Humanities Division.

Associate members cannot apply directly but must be nominated by their Head of Department or Chair of Faculty and must be willing to be a college advisor for up to 4 (occasionally 5) graduate students. College advisors are supported by the Head of the Academic Office, Dean and Senior Tutor and the role involves offering support for students on the non-academic aspects of their time in Oxford. College advisors are matched with students outside their academic departments to avoid any conflict of interest.

Associate members are entitled to free lunches throughout the year and the use of the Senior Common Room. They are encouraged to attend College academic seminars and workshops. The memberships are coterminous with the applicant’s university contracts up to a maximum of three years.

Research Fellowships form an important component of the vision for Reuben College, and are “early-career research” posts intended to offer college affiliation to postdoctoral researchers at the University who would value contributing to, and engaging in, life at Oxford’s newest college. 

As early-career researchers, Research Fellows at Reuben College will already have substantive research duties within their respective Division of the University.  Duties within the College are expected to be “light touch”, while emphasising the need for Fellows to be engaged with the life of Reuben College on a regular basis.  Perhaps different to the standard model for equivalent posts elsewhere in the University (for example, “Junior Research Fellowships”), the emphasis for Reuben’s Research Fellows is very definitely on bringing an enthusiastic, sustained, and meaningful contribution to College life. 

Additionally, Reuben College is dedicated to the support of its Research Fellows through structured mentoring.   In this programme, which is unusual for Research Fellowships at the University, an Official Fellow (in a relevant academic discipline) will be assigned as a College Mentor, providing advice and support in career progression.  This is intended to be complementary to any support provided in the Research Fellow’s academic Department.

Kellogg College has an exciting opportunity for Early Career Researchers to apply for a Junior Research Fellowship tenable for up to three years from 1st October 2024.

The main duty of the Junior Research Fellow (JRF) is to undertake research, but it is hoped that the JRF will also contribute to the general intellectual life of the College. Although no stipend is payable, the JRF will be entitled to free lunches throughout the year when the kitchens are open, discounted Guest Night Dinners, and the use of a shared Fellows’ office. Those who have recently obtained, or are expected soon to obtain, a doctorate and who are working in any of the fields of research of the College’s Fellows (see https://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/explore/our-people/) and/or Kellogg Centres (see https://www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk/kellogg-centres/), are eligible to apply, provided that they have been appointed to a stipendiary post within the University. The Junior Research Fellowship will be coterminous with the stipendiary post, but will in no case be tenable for longer than three years.

Applicants should write to the Senior Tutor, Kellogg College, by noon on Friday 8 March 2024 providing a CV, together with a covering letter detailing the stipendiary appointment held, the nature of the research being undertaken, and how they see themselves contributing to the intellectual life of the College. Two referees should be asked to write by the same date to the Senior Tutor in support of the application.

Please email applications and references to the Senior Tutor at [email protected] with “JRF application” in the email subject, by noon on Friday 8 March 2024.

Brasenose College invites applications for the Nicholas Kurti Senior and Junior Research Fellowship in the Sciences and the William Golding Senior and Junior Research Fellowship in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. These Fellowships are non-stipendiary, but include Senior Common Room membership with free meals, and research and hospitality allowances. The Fellowships have a tenure of five years (renewable) for Senior Fellows and three years (non-renewable) for Junior Fellows. Candidates are required to have a salaried post in the University or one of its institutes, with a tenure of at least twelve months from 1 October 2024. Specific eligibility criteria for each Fellowship are detailed in the Further Particulars.

The closing date for applications is Monday 19 February 2024.