ASIA Fellowship applications being accepted
Applications are invited from citizens and residents of South Asian countries for the ASIA Fellows Awards 2007-08 awarded by the Asian Scholarship Foundation (ASF), Bangkok, which is funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation. The ASIA Fellows Awards offer opportunities for outstanding Asian scholars and professionals to conduct research in another Asian country for six to nine months. The ASF Board of Directors selects the fellows, oversees the program and makes policy decisions.
Eligibility
- Master's/doctoral degree or equivalent professional training and experiences (minimum of three years of university teaching experience for academics or five years of work experience for professionals).
- Applicants must be 45 years old or younger at the time of the application deadline. However, those up to 50 years old proposing to do research in the field of humanities may be given special consideration.
- Proficiency in English or in the language of the host country appropriate to the proposed research project.
- Those who are currently enrolled in a degree program, or have just completed a degree program for less than one year will not be eligible to apply. Those who were a recipient of a Ford Foundation fellowship grant within the last two years prior to the application are also ineligible.
- Fellowship awards are not for the purpose of completing requirements towards an academic degree master's thesis or doctoral dissertations).
- Projects must focus on an Asian country other than the applicant's own. Under no circumstances will the fellowship support research in the applicant's own country even for the own-country part of a comparative study project.
- No applicant can propose to conduct their research in Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea or Taiwan.
- Research proposals must be in the humanities, social sciences and policy sciences only. Projects must be designed to be carried out in six to nine months in the People's Republic of China, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Philippines or Indonesia, or in any of the seven South Asian countries above.
- Applicants may not propose to carry out their projects in more than one country.
- Any part of the proposed project that will be done in the applicant's own country will not be funded under the ASIA Fellows Awards under any circumstances.
- The proposed grant period must be between six and nine months. Once awarded, a fellow is required to conduct research in the proposed host country throughout the grant period. Splitting of the grant period or conducting research in the applicant's own country during the proposed grant period is not allowed under any circumstances.
- While an applicant from South or Southeast Asia may propose a research project in a country within his/her own region, preference is given to applicants who propose to conduct research in a region of Asia other than their own (e.g., an award to an Indian scholar or professional for research in China).
- Applicants should not plan to conduct their research in a country with which their home country has a difficult diplomatic relationship because of the uncertainties of securing an affiliation and obtaining a research clearance and visa for a long-term stay.
For application forms and further information, please access the Asian Scholarship Foundation Web site: www.asianscholarship.org
All application materials must be received by: 12 January 2007 at:
University of Pennsylvania
Institute for the Advanced Study of India (UPIASI)
India Habitat Centre, Core 5A, Ist Floor
Lodi Road, New Delhi-110 003
Tel: (91-11) 2460-4126/27
Fax: (91-11) 2469-8201
E-mail: upiasi@del2.vsnl.net.in