Application process
The India Alliance is currently transitioning to a new online system (IASys). We expect the Early Career Fellowship preliminary application to be available by 15 July 2011. To help prospective applicants, a downloadable template of the preliminary form is available here. You may wish to prepare responses to the questions, which can later be copied on to the online form.
Your preliminary application will normally be assessed within one month of the submission deadline. If successful, you will be invited to submit a full application.
Your full application will be peer reviewed and considered by the appropriate Selection Committee and, if successful, you will be short-listed for interview.
Short-listed candidates will be notified two weeks before the interview date.
Applicants are not permitted to apply to multiple Fellowship schemes within the India Alliance in parallel. Only one application to one scheme will be entertained, at a time.
Application advice
You should give careful thought to your choice of Fellowship Supervisor and External Sponsor.These individuals will typically possess strong track records in research and mentorship.
The proposed research should fall within the India Alliance’s remit which is “to support biomedical research that is relevant to human and animal welfare”.
The Fellowship project would typically be a confluence of number of considerations: the main research question you wish to answer; your current skill set and what you may need to successfully answer the proposed question; and, the intellectual and resource contributions that your supervisors and Host Institution environment can make. With the assistance of your Supervisors, you should drive the identification of a research question and the development of the proposal.
Reviewers typically assess:
- your track record
- the importance of the research question
- your choice of appropriate supervisors
- the feasibility of the approach
- your vision of how the fellowship will contribute to your career development
- your long term aspirations
The Fellowship encourages mobility; Applicants are advised to give serious thought to enlisting an External Sponsor.
Preliminary Application Template
