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Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship 2024-25 - departmental deadline 9:00 11 September 2023
The Department of Political Science/School of Public Policy at UCL is now welcoming applications for the 2024/2025 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships scheme.
06 Jul 2023
Congratulations to our new Professors and Associate Professors!
Senior Academic, Research and Teaching Promotions 2022-23
30 Jun 2023
2023/2024 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships scheme - reminder
UCL Political Science is welcoming applications to pursue a British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship at our department. Internal deadline 26th June 2023 (BA deadline likely in mid-October 2023)
20 Jun 2023