Fellowships In India
Dr.Ambedkar Post-Doctoral Fellowship Scheme

Dr.Ambedkar Post-Doctoral Fellowship Scheme

About Dr.Ambedkar Post-Doctoral Fellowship Scheme

Dr. Ambedkar International Centre (DAIC), under the financial assistance of Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, (GoI) has started Dr. Ambedkar Doctoral Fellowship and Dr. Ambedkar Post-Doctoral Fellowship (national and overseas).

The Fellow is expected to undertake research and publication in one or more areas of Socio-economic Transformation. The fellow will have to take up a new research work under the fellowship and he/she is strongly expected to generate a publishable manuscript towards the end of the fellowship. The fellow is also expected to conduct two seminars, and contribute in other academic activities of DAIC including setting up a digital archive on Socio-economic Transformation and Buddhist Studies.

Objectives

The Objectives of Fellowship are:

* Toprovide an opportunity to scholars to carry out advanced studies and research in the fields of Socio-economic Transformation, Sustainable Development and Buddhist Studies.

* To bridge the gap between policy for Socio-economic Transformation and Sustainable Development andtheir impact after implementation.

* To foster and promote collaborative research activities which will help in providing policy feeds.

* To contribute in overall Nation building through applied research.

Types of Dr. Ambedkar Post-Doctoral Fellowship

Dr.Ambedkar Post-Doctoral National and Overseas Fellowships are completely mentored fellowship schemes. During the entire period of fellowship, the fellow shall be working under supervisor of DAIC. The Scheme shall be coordinated and administered by DAIC for Research in coordination with the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, GoI. DAIC has introduced the following two types of completely mentored fellowship schemes:

I. Dr. Ambedkar Post-Doctoral Fellowship (National).

II. Dr. Ambedkar Post-Doctoral Fellowship (Overseas) for Indian Students to study abroad.

The Post-doctoral overseas research will be supervised by the two supervisors i.e. one from DAIC and the other from the overseas university. All the fellowships will include rigorous training and experience based on field study on the topic of the research.

Time Lines

The following calendar of activities and time lines will be followed:

Activity	Timeline
Date of advertisement	10th August, 2020
Date of writing letters to universities/institutions	31st July, 2020
Last date of submitting application form	7 th September, 2020 for National and 7 th October, 2020 for Oversees Fellowship
Date of completion of verification, evaluation and eligibility check	15th September, 2020 for National and 15th November, 2020 for Oversees Fellowship
Interviews	27th to 30th September, 2020 (National) 21st to 25th November, 2020 (Overseas)
Declaration of result/ issue of notification	5th October, 2020 (National) 27th November, 2020 (Oversees)
Commencement of fellowship	12th October 2020 (National) 7 th December, 2020 (Oversees)