Deadline for Expressions of Interest: 17:00 BST Monday 9 June 2025
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme applications close: 17:00 CEST Wednesday 10 September 2025
Oxford Sociology now invites Expressions of Interest (EOIs) to participate in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellowships Scheme 2025.
MSCA Fellowships are highly flexible funding schemes offered to experienced researchers with a minimum of PhD-level experience who move to be based at the hosting institution, where they will work with their supervisors to deliver a specific project involving research, innovation, training and networking activities. The funding guarantees mobility and financial independence with a generous set of allowances.
Sociology at Oxford has a strong analytical, empirical and comparative orientation with a focus on developing and testing theories that engage with real world problems. Our strengths include statistical analysis of social surveys, social demography, collection management and analysis of complex datasets, the development of rational choice theory, microsocial experiments and simulation studies.
We would be happy to host MSCA Fellows whose research profile falls or overlaps with the following research areas:
- Social inequalities of gender, class, and ethnicity (including mobility, labour market and social class inequalities)
- Families, population, and demography
- Health and wellbeing
- Crime, justice and governance
- Social movements and political sociology
- Environmental sociology
- Digital Societies, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
If you are interested in applying for the scheme with the Department, please fill in the application form and send a copy along with the requested documents to research@sociology.ox.ac.uk.
In completing this form, it is expected that you will have approached your potential supervisor within the Department for confirmation that they will supervise if successful.
Please also read the Guidance for Applicants on the funder website and consult the eligibility criteria.
Proposals are expected to be built around a Career Development Plan (CDP) at the host organisation. In addition to research activities and objectives, the CDP should address the researcher's training and career needs, including developing transferable skills, planning for publications and participation in conferences.
The call for EOI applications with Oxford Sociology closes at 17:00 BST on Monday 9 June 2025.
Selected candidates will then be contacted to iteratively develop their application with the Department, before the Departmental deadline of Tuesday 26 August 2025.
Please email research@sociology.ox.ac.uk with any questions.
