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Fellowships

Some faculties offer talented researchers who have a PhD and wish to specialise further the opportunity of a research fellowship. This enables them to conduct high-level academic research within a research programme.

Fellowships

Research at Leiden Law School is organised in research programmes. All researchers at the Leiden Law School take part in one of its research programmes and become fellow.

Research fellows in one of the research programmes are subject to the Research Assessment Framework (RAF) of Leiden Law School. The RAF sets out the guidelines and procedures for the publication standard and assessment of research output by individual researchers during a multi-year period.

The RAF applies to any member of academic staff within Leiden Law School holding a PhD whose employment status includes research responsibilities. As such, it applies to assistant professors/lecturers (UDs), postdoctoral researchers, associate professors/senior lecturers (UHDs), and full professors.

Fellowship Application Form

This fellowship application form is intended for academic staff to request admittance to one (or a maximum of two) research programme(s). The form is applicable as of January 2023.

For whom?

  • This application form is intended for: newly appointed researchers (UDs, UHDs, professors, postdoctoral researchers); and recent PhD graduates (UDs, postdoctoral researchers).
  • The form can also be used by current researchers, already registered in a research programme, who wish to change programme(s) or take part in a second programme; and those researchers who need to reapply after a suspension of their enrolment in a research programme.
  • The fellowship application form is not intended for PhD candidates or teaching-only staff. PhD candidates belong to the research programme of their supervisor, but do not become a Fellow.

Current fellows do not have to reapply and will be reappointed in the same research programme (unless they wish to change programmes).

Research Assessment Framework (RAF)

The Research Assessment Framework (RAF) Guidelines 2023-2026 are applicable as of January 2023, in view of the research assessment that will take place at the start of 2027, comprising the 4-year period 2023-2026.

The research assessment is made on the basis of your research output as registered in the university research output database LUCRIS. It is essential to keep your research output in this database up-to-date. LUCRIS is also used to generate the overview of publications as part of your university profile page.

Questions?

For questions and/or requests for revisions in LUCRIS, please contact our helpdesk.

For other questions, please send an e-mail to the Department of Research, Meijers Research Institute, Leiden Law School.

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