MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Department of French at University College Cork (UCC), Ireland will welcome the chance to support suitably qualified candidates wishing to apply for the upcoming Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships (MSCA) with UCC as host organisation (call opening 9 April).

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships enhance the creative and innovative potential of researchers holding a PhD and who wish to acquire new skills through advanced training, international, interdisciplinary and inter-sectoral mobility. MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships will be open to excellent researchers of any nationality.

UCC’s French Department offers expertise in the following areas:

• Modern and contemporary French philosophy, theory and thought (including radical political theory, psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory)
• Francophone colonial and postcolonial studies (Africa and the Caribbean)
• Second language acquisition and Sociolinguistics
• Translation Studies (including audiovisual translation)
• Queer theory and queer studies
• The Medical and Psychedelic Humanities

 For more information about our researchers, please check this page.

We ask that you please contact the relevant potential mentor directly via their UCC email address.

Indicative timeline for the applications:

• 9 April 2026: launch of the call for proposals (TBC)
• 9 September 2026: deadline for submitting proposals (TBC)
• February 2027: notification of call results to applicants (TBC)
• April 2027: grant agreement signature for successful projects (TBC)
• May 2027: first EU-funded projects start (TBC)

For more information about the scheme, visit this site.

If you have any general questions about coming to live as a research in Cork or for assistance in identifying a mentor, please contact me on caroline.williamsonsinalo@ucc.ie.