From the archive: Consolidate your PhD with the ESRC

ESRC postdoctoral fellowships help build a firm base from which to launch a career

With the end-of-year break now over, many social sciences doctoral students will be focusing their attention on securing continued funding for their research from the Economic and Social Research Council’s postdoctoral fellowships scheme, for which the next deadline is 23 March.

For all those who are setting themselves on that path, we have unearthed our 2021 interview with Olivia Mason, then a lecturer in political geography at Newcastle University and now an associate research fellow at that institution. Here, she explains how she clinched her ESRC postdoctoral fellowship in October 2020.