Publisher's Synopsis
This directory provides a comprehensive guide to fellowships, visiting professorships, lectureships and grants open to university teaching and research staff in one country who wish to carry out research, make study visits or teach for a while at another university in another country, usually within the Commonwealth. The scope of the directory is, however, worldwide with over half the schemes open to candidates of any nationality and almost a third tenable in any country.;The awards also cover attendance at conferences and seminars and on courses not necessarily at the postdoctoral level, retraining and career development, exchanges and visits, inter-institutional links, observation, and laboratory and field work.;This revised and updated edition contains 740 entries, including over 120 new entries, a wide range of subjects, and an international section plus 15 other country sections. Appendices cover: awards tenable specifically at certain non-university institutions - almost half of the entries in the main part of the book are not restricted too university tenure; organizations providing appointments services and opportunities for academics to serve as consultants or experts; and organizations providing other forms of assistance for Commonwealth universities.;Indexes cover: all awarding bodies and named awards; subjects of study; countries/regions/towns of tenure and nationality/residence requirements.
