DOROTHY is a Postdoctoral interdisciplinary research fellowships to develop interdisciplinary approaches to health crises collaboratively

DOROTHY (DevelOp interdisciplinaRy apprOaches to heaLTH crisis collaboratively), is a postdoctoral research programme that is co-funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions. The Irish Research Council (IRC) in partnership with the Health Research Board (HRB) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have come together to create this new interdisciplinary fellowship programme on the topic of public health crises and their legacies.

DOROTHY will recruit and train 25 outstanding researchers from a variety of disciplines who will shed light on public health crises from wide-ranging perspectives.

Fellows will be recruited for 36-month projects by an Irish higher education institution (HEI). They will be hosted in the first 18 months (outgoing phase) in a higher education institution outside Ireland, and in the following 18 months (return phase) in a higher education institution in Ireland. Applicants are encouraged to include a non-academic secondment (between 3 and 6 months) in their project, which can take place at any stage of the project.

Eligibility

In order to be eligible to apply for a DOROTHY fellowship, the applicant must be an Experienced Researcher (ER). The definition of Experienced Researchers in the H2020 MSCA programme will be applied: ERs must, at the time of the call deadline, be in possession of a doctoral degree or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience.