The Humanities Temporary Task Force (Regieorgaan Geesteswetenschappen) and NWO Humanities Divisional Board have announced that they will continue the PhDs in the Humanities programme in 2018. About twenty PhD positions are expected to be financed by NWO with the available budget.
The Faculty can submit a maximum of five applications to NWO to compete in this round, each covering a standard PhD position (4 years, 1.0 FTE ). To this end, a Faculty pre-selection will take place.
Each research school can nominate a fixed number of candidates for the Faculty pre-selection. AHM can nominate a total of four candidates. Please find enclosed a description of the Faculty pre-selection procedure. The NWO Call for proposals will be published in December 2017.
Call for AHM nominations AHM invites researchers to nominate applications for the PhDs in the Humanities 2018 competition. Please note that these NWO grants are very prestigious and, as a result, the application process is highly competitive. We ask you to only nominate candidates who are exceptionally qualified, so as to avoid applicants spending a lot of time writing a proposal with a limited chance of being awarded.
Applications must comprise a fully developed project description and a CV, following the NWO format (see attachment and Call for proposals). At this stage, Section 15 ‘Research Budget’ can be skipped, which will be set up with the Grant Team should the application be selected for submission to NWO. Section 10 is the ‘Description of the proposed research’, which can contain up to 2500 words.
Please note the following conditions for submission:
An application can be submitted to one Research School only.
An application must be supported by at least one supervisor (‘promotor’), who is a member of AHM.
Applications must be written in English.
Applications can be submitted to ahm-fgw@uva.nl until 5 January 2018, 11.00 am (CET), at the latest. The PhD candidates are kindly requested to submit the application themselves.
If AHM receives more than four nominations, the four most promising applications will be selected by the AHM director, together with members of the AHM Advisory Board. This selection will be made according to the NWO assessment criteria: 1. Quality of the PhD candidate, 2. Quality of the research proposal, and 3. Extent to which the PhD proposal fits within the profile of AHM.
Timetable 5 January 2018 (11.00 am CET): Deadline submission applications to AHM (ahm-fgw@uva.nl) 12 January 2018: Assessment meeting AHM director and Board members 16 January 2018: AHM informs candidates of the outcome 16 January 2018 (11.00 am): Deadline submission applications to the Faculty by AHM
For more information about the NWO assessment procedure, please go to the NWO website. For more information about submitting nominations to AHM, please send an e-mail to ahm-fgw@uva.nl.