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Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025

European Commission Horizon Europe Funding Opportunity

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025
Calls for Expressions of Interest

European Fellowships

The School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) welcomes Expressions of Interest from postdoctoral researchers with an excellent track record to apply jointly, with a QMUL host supervisor, to the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025.

What does the fellowship offer?

The Fellowship is a prestigious EU funding scheme which supports mobility, career development and training in Europe and beyond. The fellowship offers a 12-24 months’ highly competitive salary and research/training funds.

About the School of Geography and QMUL

The School of Geography at QMUL is a notable centre for the nurture of postdoctoral and early career colleagues. The School operates an internal peer review process in order to support, mentor and manage demand for highly competitive postdoctoral research grants.

Postdoctoral researchers in the School are supported by their research mentors and form part of a vibrant research community. The School runs an annual Staff Research Conference and a research seminar series which runs throughout the year providing opportunities for ECRs to present their research to the School.

The UK’s most inclusive Russell Group University, according to The Times, Queen Mary is a multi-faculty university with over 28,000 students, 4,400 members of staff and 5 campuses around London. QMUL has a strong track record in EU funding and was awarded nearly 70 Horizon 2020 individual fellowships and ranked 9th in the UK and 18th in Europe for H2020 fellowships. QMUL hosts over 20 successfully evaluated Horizon Europe fellowships.

What does the Fellowship entail?

The fellowship will comprise a joint research project between the applicant and the Host Supervisor/Research Group. Fellows will be an integral part of and expected to fully participate to the academic life of the School. The fellowship will offer well-structured training involving academic and development components, including placement assistance via the international job market. SEF offers a stimulating and supportive research environment to the fellow, with excellent researcher training and a lively seminar programme, while the candidate should bring previous experience, networks and know-how that can be shared at QMUL. 

Eligibility

  • You can be of any age and nationality, but you must not have spent more than 12 months in the UK in the last 36 months prior to the EC call deadline 10 September 2025 (TBC).
  • You must have a PhD at the date of the EC call deadline

  • You cannot have more than 8 years of research experience after the PhD was awarded. Years outside research and documented leave periods will not be taken into account. .

Funding

Researchers will receive up to 24 months award flat rate monthly allowances totalling €230-250k to cover:

  • Fully funded generous salary for the fellow (grade 6 of QM scale)
  • Research costs
  • Institutional Overheads

*Note that gross salary includes employer on-costs and tax

All allowances are flat rates and calculated according to the duration of the fellowship.

How to Apply

This is a two-step process. Candidates will be internally selected by the School. Selected candidates will then develop a research proposal jointly with the assigned supervisor for submission to the European Commission.

The School welcomes applications in all areas of expertise, research topics/themes. See https://www.qmul.ac.uk/geog/research/ for details of the School’s research areas.

Internal QMUL deadline

Expression of interest for the first step must be submitted to the School Research Manager, Monira Begum (geog-research@qmul.ac.uk), by 5pm Friday, 23 May 2025. 

Your EOI must include:

1)           CV, including a full list of publications and justification of research achievements (max. two pages)

2)           Two page outline of your research proposal and career goals (how your research is original and innovative and potential impact and how it will advance your career). And how you will contribute to the research profile of the school

3)           A statement confirming how you meet the MSCA-2025-PF eligibility criteria

EOIs submitted before the deadline will be assessed on a rolling basis, with decisions communicated in early June at the latest. Selected candidates will then prepare the EC proposal with matched PI supervisor using EC guidance and templates supported by QMUL IRI EU pre award who provide additional guidance materials and application technical support.

EC Funding Deadline

The EC MSCA-PF (2025) deadline date is indicatively 10 September 2025.

From 1 January 2024, the UK is an Associated Country in Horizon Europe and eligible to apply to and be awarded EC funding including the MSCA-2025-PF call.

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