Description
ICSSR invites applications for Doctoral Fellowships for the year 2021-22 from Indian scholars. The research proposal should be in the field of social science discipline or may be interdisciplinary in nature having significant social science content.
The broad disciplines of study within the domain of social sciences identified by ICSSR are:
- Economics
- Management
- Commerce
- Sociology
- Social Work
- Social Anthropology
- Cultural Studies
- Socio-Sanskrit Studies
- Socio-Philosophical Studies
- Social Linguistics
- Gender Studies
- Health Studies
- Political Science
- International Studies
- Public Administration
- Diaspora Studies
- National Security and Strategic Studies
- Education
- Social Psychology
- Legal Studies
- Social Geography
- Environmental Studies
- Modern Social History
- Media Studies
- Library Science
Categories of Doctoral Fellowship
ICSSR is providing Doctoral Fellowships under its three ‘Centrally-Administered Doctoral Fellowship Schemes’ and ‘Institutional Doctoral Fellowship Scheme’ in accordance with the prescribed guidelines. In case of Centrally-Administered Schemes, the fellowships are awarded and monitored directly by ICSSR and the concerned doctoral fellows are affiliated to a university or college. Under the Institutional Fellowship Scheme, the doctoral fellows are affiliated to and monitored by an ICSSR sponsored / recognized research institute. The scholar can avail anyone of the fellowships under the following categories:
A.Centrally Administered Full-Term Doctoral Fellowship
B.Institutional Full-Term Doctoral Fellowship (administered by the ICSSR research institutes)
C.Centrally Administered Short-Term Doctoral Fellowship
D.Centrally Administered Contingency Grant
Who can Apply?
Click here for detailed instructions on how to apply in the Guidelines.
How to Apply
Applicants must apply in accordance with the ICSSR Doctoral Fellowship Guidelines.
The candidates shall submit an online application which includes the Research Proposal Format, namely, ‘Section IV: Details of Research Proposal’ given in the Application Form. Proposal should be submitted in the given proforma only.
N.B. At this stage, the candidates need to upload only the documents referred in Application form.
All scholars are required to keep the hard copies of their application and annexures ready, duly forwarded by the competent authorities of the university /college/ institute so that they may submit the required hard copies, within one week after the completion of the process of screening. It is being done for the sake of convenience of the applicants so that they get more time for preparing the hard copies.
Link to apply: https://icssr.org/administrator
The last date for online submission of application is 14 August 2021, 5 :00 PM.
NOTE: All the interested applicants of the fellowship(s) who had applied in the year 2020-21 need to APPLY AFRESH in prescribed format for 2021-22.
Important Date
- Last date for registration is 14 August 2021, 5:00 PM
For Additional Information
Address for Communication 🇮🇳
Indian Council Of Social Science Research (ICSSR), JNU Institutional Area, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi – 110067
Highlights
- Doctoral Fellowships Organized by Indian Council Of Social Science Research (ICSSR)
- Fellowship is Rs.10,000 /- to Rs.20,000/- per month
- Short Term Training Programme for Faculties/ research scholars/ PG students and Industry employees