SETU TU RISE Postdoctoral Fellowships 2024

1. To broaden Fellows’ research knowledge and experience and to facilitate career movement across sectors, thus, opening attractive career opportunities both inside and outside of academia.
2. To develop and enable Fellows’ transferable and entrepreneurship skills.
3. To diversify Fellows’ individual competencies in areas including open research, grant writing and sustainability.
4. To conduct ethical and responsible research addressing Green, Digital and Health agendas.

The tables below provide salary details, travel expenses and open access
publication costs.

Salary

Travel Costs

Publication Costs

Consumable Costs

Fellows will produce a personal career development plan with their supervisors
which is updated throughout the programme, as needed. Training will include building
leadership skills and personal competencies as part of the Broaden Your Horizons
programme, below. Bespoke training and workshops designed to aid the Fellow in
their research funding applications and management will be offered. These courses
will be held over the year and include:
 

1. Research integrity and ethics (compulsory).
2. Grant writing (compulsory).
3. Grant management.
4. Engaged research and impact case study training (compulsory).
5. Data management plan preparation.
6. Enhanced knowledge and understanding of open research principles and
   resources.
7. Enhanced knowledge and understanding of skills related to Equality, Diversity, and
8. Inclusion (EDI), including gender considerations in research.
9. Enterprise readiness, entrepreneurship & commercialisation, including intellectual
   property (IP).
10. Relevant European policy (including Do No Significant Harm).

Eligibility:
Applicants must:

1. Be a PhD holder (have successfully defended the PhD viva and completed any thesis corrections)
2. Have completed a maximum of 5 years Postdoctoral experience.
3. Be of any nationality.
4. Be fluent in written and spoken English.
5. Be eligible to work in Ireland.

6. Find supervisors. (Eligible SETU supervisors can be found on the SETU webpage).

   The deadline for TU RISE Postdoctoral Fellowship enquiries is 5pm on 15 July 2024

Application Process:

1. Find SETU and industry supervisors with whom the proposal must be prepared. Complete the Application Form. Please refer to the SETU Ethics application and requirements here  and also the Ethics Self-Assessment Form here.
2. Complete the Applicant CV.
3. Complete the Supervisor CV.
4. Complete a written proposal (maximum 10-pages). Note: attaching a Gantt chart
   discussing the planning processes and time allocation of the research project is advised.
5. Submit an electronic copy of the completed application. The email subject line should
   include the applicant’s name, followed by the title of the TU RISE Postdoctoral Fellowship.
6. The application comprises the following:
   1. Proposal, which must be signed by both the SETU and Industry supervisors.
   2. Postdoctoral Fellow CV.
   3. SETU Supervisor CV.
   4. All the documents must be submitted in one pdf document and emailed to [email protected] .

The application deadline is 5pm on 31 July 2024. 

An application will not be accepted if:

1. It is submitted after the deadline. 
2. It exceeds the specified word count and(or) page limit and(or) is not completed on the templates provided. 
3. It has not been pre-screened and endorsed by the relevant supervisors.

Applications will be evaluated by external experts. Each proposal will be scored out of
100 on four criteria (outlined in call document). 

Applicants must achieve a minimum threshold of 75% of the total marks available and at least 50% of the available marks for each criterion. Proposals which meet this threshold will then be ranked and on the basis of overall scores, applicants will be shortlisted and invited to an interview.

This virtual 30-minute interview will comprise a 10-minute project presentation to the
interview panel. After the presentation, the candidate will answer some questions
regarding their motivation and suitability for the TU RISE Postdoctoral Fellowship
scheme. Candidates will be notified of the interview outcome within seven working
days.

SETU is a signatory to the San Francisco Declaration of Research Assessment (DORA). As such, SETU is aligning its review and evaluation processes with DORA principles. To this end, all types of research output are recognised by SETU, and we are committed to assessing the quality and impact of research through means other than journal impact factors. In addition, a DORA-compliant CV comprises part of the application form for this programme. Furthermore, in the spirit of supporting open research, evaluators will positively consider where there is a commitment to making data and other types of research open and accessible.

For a full breakdown of the evaluation criteria and scoring please consult page 12 of the call document.