Non-Stipendiary College Associations for Research Staff

Following a generous benefaction from the Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust, the College seeks to elect two non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellows from Hilary Term 2024.

Candidates will be required to be engaged in research work within an Oxford University Faculty or Department and to spend the greater part of the academic year in Oxford. Applicants should normally be early career researchers who are in the final years of their DPhil or the first few years after completion of it.

Appointments will normally be made for two years, and it is anticipated that holders of the Fellowships still on course will normally migrate to Regent’s Park College to take up their Fellowship.  The JRFs will receive an annual retainer of £1356 plus meals and conference allowances.

Linacre College proposes to make elections to a variety of Junior Research Fellowships tenable for two years (subject to satisfactory progress) from 1st October 2024.

Junior Research Fellows will receive a research allowance of £300 p.a., enjoy Common Table dining rights in College, full access to social and sports facilities and may apply for travel grants. Candidates do not need to apply for a specific Fellowship but will be considered for all those Fellowships for which they are eligible. Candidates should be engaged in or intending to engage in research at post-doctoral level in an academic department of the University of Oxford.

Applicants who do not yet have a higher research degree will normally be expected to have submitted for a doctorate before taking up a Junior Research Fellowship. These Fellowships are non-stipendiary and therefore candidates must demonstrate they have adequate funding and the support of their academic department for the duration of the Fellowship. Normally, the successful applicants will not have held a DPhil/PhD for more than five years, but the College will apply discretion when considering applications from those who have taken a career break.

We offer fellowships that can be held in any academic discipline, as well as others intended for those in the following fields: Biological, Chemical, or Medical Sciences, Biomedical Sciences, Biosciences, Astrophysics, Music, or studying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its relationship to social, emotional, mental health and education.

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.

The College proposes to elect up to twelve non-stipendiary Research/Junior Research Fellows in Sciences from 1 January 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 proposes to elect one non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellow from 1 January 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.

Linacre College proposes to make elections to five non-stipendiary Junior Research Fellowships tenable for two years (subject to satisfactory progress) from Hilary term, 14 January 2024, in collaboration with the Committee for Children (CfC) non-profit organisation.

Junior Research Fellows will receive a research allowance of £300 p.a., enjoy Common Table dining rights in College, full access to social and sports facilities and may apply for travel grants.

Candidates should be engaged in or intending to engage in research at post-doctoral level in an academic department of the University of Oxford. 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.