DFID Call for applications of fellowships in African Climate Science - dead line 4th February.

The DFID-Hadley Centre Climate Science Research Partnership (CSRP) has announced a Call for Applications for fellowships in African climate science. Please refer to http://hadobs.metoffice.com/csrp/fellowships.html, which provides full details of the fellowships, grant awards available, eligibility criteria and information on how to apply.Three types of fellowship are available: Postgraduate Research Fellowships, Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and Applications Project Fellowships.Applicants must be resident nationals of an African country and the fellowship must be hosted at an African Institute. The deadline for applications is 4 February 2011.Successful applicants will be funded to make an induction visit to the Met Office Hadley Centre, of up to 4 weeks duration, to learn about the CSRP objectives, retrieve data for the fellowship research/project and to help consolidation of their fellowship plans.The application procedure requires submission of forms by the candidate and also by other organisations involved. Specifically:- a fellowship proposal: to be submitted by the candidate;- completed (brief) endorsement forms: to be submitted by the Host Institute (the institute at which the candidate intends to carry out the fellowship), the Home Institute (the institute at which the candidate is currently appointed) and, for some fellowships, from a nominated User Organisation. The Host and Home Institutes and User Organisation can be the same organisation. - two professional reference forms: to be submitted by the referees.All required application forms may be downloaded from http://hadobs.metoffice.com/csrp/fellowships.html Candidates must ensure all completed application forms (from all parties) are submitted to the CSRP Fellowship Coordinator on or before the deadline. Contact: Richard GrahamCSRP Fellowship CoordinatorMet Office FitzRoy Road Exeter Devon EX1 3PB United KingdomWebsite: http://hadobs.metoffice.com/csrp/index.htmlhttp://www.metoffice.gov.uk