Job description

The University of Huddersfield invites expressions of interest from researchers seeking to apply to the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 with Huddersfield as their host institution.

The fellowship

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and intersectoral mobility. A European Fellowship and a Global Fellowship are offered.

The suitability of the research environment of the host institution is an important aspect of the fellowships. Applicants should make a strong case for the suitability of the opportunities for mentoring, training and networking that can be provided to them by the University of Huddersfield.

Details of the research units at the university and individual staff profiles can be found via the University’s research portal.

Candidate Eligibility Criteria

At the call deadline, applicants must in a possession of a doctoral degree (defined as a successfully defended doctoral thesis, even if the doctoral degree has yet to be awarded) and have no more than 8 years full-time equivalent experience in research since award of their first doctoral degree. Time spent not working in research can be taken into consideration for the purposes of this calculation.

Mobility: Applicants must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the host institution (for European Postdoctoral Fellowships), or the country of the host institution for the outgoing phase (for Global Postdoctoral Fellowships) for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before the call deadline.

Supported researchers can be of any nationality. However, candidates to the Global Postdoctoral Fellowship must be nationals or long-term residents of EU Member States or Horizon Europe Associated Countries.

Details of the scheme and several useful documents can be found here. All potential candidates are encouraged to carefully check the full eligibility criteria in the 2024 Guide for Applicants, available here. Please note that the 2025 guidance documents are not yet available, however, we don’t expect the scheme details and eligibility criteria to change significantly for the 2025 round.

Financial details

The salary and expense allocations for the fellowships can be found in the Horizon Europe Work Programme – 2023-2025 – Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions.

How to apply

The expression of interest process

Expressions of interest should be sent to [email protected] by 30^th April 2025. 

Please send two documents:

• A two-page CV covering education, any relevant employment, publications, awards, etc.

• A two-page fellowship proposal consisting of:
  • – Confirmation of the fellowship for which you would like to apply – European or Global.
  • – A statement of your eligibility to apply referencing the specific candidate eligibility criteria, particularly mobility and research experience since PhD.
  • – A summary of the proposed research project including the aims and objectives, methodology an outputs.
  • – A statement on the suitability of the research environment at the university referencing research groups and potential supervisor(s) for the fellowship.
  • – Potential scientific, social and economic impacts that your project can make.
  • – Details of opportunities for training and networking activities that the fellowship would provide (including any secondments and placement in the non-academic sector).

An internal university selection process will determine which candidates will be invited to go forward to develop a full application with the university.  A programme of mentoring and application development will be offered to the selected candidates in the lead up to the call deadline (10^th September 2025).

The university will endeavor to provide all candidates with a decision on their expression of interest as early as possible in May.