KSCSTE Back-To-Lab Post-Doctoral Fellowship Programme

About:

The “Back-to-Lab” programme of Women Scientists Division offers Research and Post-Doctoral Fellowship to women who have break in their career, to facilitate their re-entry in science research. The fellowship is provided normally for a period of 2 years. The scheme is open to unemployed women who are permanent residents of Kerala and qualified with Ph.D. in Science or Engineering.

Benefits:

• The scheme offers Post-doctoral fellowship of 45,000/-+ 10 % HRA p.m. along with an annual contingency grant of Rs.75,000/-.
• Duration of the Fellowship is limited to maximum 2 years

Eligibility:

• Only women candidates are eligible to apply
• Applicant should be a Permanent Resident of Kerala.
• Applicant should be unemployed and should be under career-break due to family commitments or other related matters, at the time of application.
• Applicant should not receiving any emoluments from any source at the time of application.
• Those who have availed KSCSTE Back-to-Lab Fellowship earlier for their Ph.D programme are not eligible to apply.
• Age limit: 40 years – as on the date of application, relaxable for 3 years for OBC and 5 years for SC/ST
• Applicant should have qualified Ph.D. as on the date of application and should have scored minimum 60% marks for post-graduation.
• Applicant should have chosen an institution as Research Centre subject to the following.
• The proposed Research Centre should not be the same as their Ph.D Research centre.
• Research centre should preferably be in Kerala, [however, premier National Institutions viz.,IISER, IIT, IISc etc outside the State shall also be considered ]
• Tenable in Government Institutions only
• Tenable only in R&D institutions (National/State level) or University Departments.
• Applicant should have published at least one research paper in a SCI Journal/ secured patent.
• Those who have already availed one Post-Doctoral Fellowship from KSCSTE or elsewhere are not eligible to apply.

Important Dates:

Last date to apply : 15.03.203

How to apply:

• To read the guidelines please click here.
• To enter the online application portal click on apply now.