Rokos Postdoctoral Research Associateships 2024

Queens’ College is delighted to invite applications for appointment as Rokos Postdoctoral Research Associates of the College. Under the terms of a generous benefaction from Mr Chris Rokos, each year a number of postdoctoral researchers can be made members of the Senior Combination Room and thus enabled to share in the social and intellectual life of the Fellowship. Appointment as a Rokos PDRA brings with it, among other benefits:

• access to the Senior Combination Room;
• three meals a week at High Table at College expense; and
• a personal research allowance of £1000 a year.

Appointment as a Rokos PDRA carries no specific obligations. However, those appointed are warmly encouraged to involve themselves in the intellectual and educational life of the College and there may be opportunities for suitably qualified candidates to involve themselves in undergraduate teaching. For 2024-25, the College would particularly welcome applications in the following subject areas: Computer Science, History (particularly American, Global, Intellectual, Ancient, Early Medieval and Modern European), Mathematics and Music.

The appointment is for one year in the first instance, and is renewable for a second year upon application. This year there are vacancies for eight Rokos PDRAs.

Rokos Postdoctoral Research Associateships are open to scholars in any academic discipline who hold a recognised postdoctoral position at the University of Cambridge or at one of its Partner Institutions (the Animal Health Trust, Babraham Institute, British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, European Bioinformatics Institute, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institute of Agricultural Botany and the Wellcome Sanger Institute).

Applicants must not already be matriculated as a member of any college within the University of Cambridge (unless already a matriculated member of Queens’ College, Cambridge).

Applications should be submitted electronically via our online application system:

https://app.casc.cam.ac.uk/fas_live/rokos.aspx

Completed applications must be submitted via the online system no later than Friday 26 April 2024. Your referees will have until Friday 3 May 2024 to submit their references, also via the Online System.

A complete application will consist of the following:

• a letter (no more than two sides of A4) providing details of the postdoctoral position you hold or will hold (job title, start date, expected duration, host department or institution) and outlining why you are applying for the position and how you would envisage engaging with the College’s mission to promote education, learning, and research and including a brief statement of your current research project
• a brief Curriculum Vitae (no more than two sides of A4)
• two academic references from appropriately qualified persons