KSCSTE Back-To-Lab Post-Doctoral Fellowship Programme

KSCSTE Back-To-Lab Post-Doctoral Fellowship Programme

About KSCSTE Back-To-Lab Post-Doctoral Fellowship Programme

The “Back-to-Lab” programme of Women Scientists Division offers Research and Post-Doctoral Fellowship to women who have break in their career, to facilitate their re-entry in science research. The fellowship is provided normally for a period of 2 years. The scheme is open to unemployed women who are permanent residents of Kerala and qualified with Ph.D. in Science or Engineering.

Features

* The scheme offers Post-doctoral fellowship of 45,000/-+ 10 % HRA p.m. along with an annual contingency grant of Rs.75,000/-.

* Duration of the Fellowship is limited to maximum 2 years

Eligibility

* Only women candidates are eligible to apply

* Applicant should be a Permanent Resident of Kerala.

* Applicant should be unemployed and should be under career-break due to family commitments or other related matters, at the time of application.

* Applicant should not receiving any emoluments from any source at the time of application.

* Those who have availed KSCSTE Back-to-Lab Fellowship earlier for their Ph.D programme are not eligible to apply.

* Age limit: 40 years – as on the date of application, relaxable for 3 years for OBC and 5 years for SC/ST

* Applicant should have qualified Ph.D. as on the date of application and should have scored minimum 60% marks for post-graduation.

* Applicant should have chosen an institution as Research Centre subject to the following.

* The proposed Research Centre should not be the same as their Ph.D Research centre.

* Research centre should preferably be in Kerala, [however, premier National Institutions viz.,IISER, IIT, IISc etc outside the State shall also be considered ]

* Tenable in Government Institutions only

* Tenable only in R&D institutions (National/State level) or University Departments.

* Applicant should have published at least one research paper in a SCI Journal/ secured patent.

* Those who have already availed one Post-Doctoral Fellowship from KSCSTE or elsewhere are not eligible to apply.

For queries:

E-mail : wsd.kscste(at)kerala.gov.in, womenscientistkerala(at)gmail.com, wsdkscste(at)gmail.com
Tel: 0471- 2548208

The Head,
Women Scientists Division
Kerala State Council of Science, Technology and Environment
Sasthra Bhavan, Pattom (P.O), Thiruvananthapuram – 695 004
Ph: 0471 2548208, Fax: 0471 2540085, 2534605
E-mail: womenscientistkerala(at)gmail.com

For more details refer the Official Website

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