Asian Graduate Student Fellowships 2009

The Asia Research Institute of NUS invites applications from citizensof Asian countries enrolled for a fulltime advanced degree at auniversity in an Asian country (except Singapore) for considerationfor the award of Asian Graduate Student Fellowships.
These fellowships are offered to current graduate students doing theirMaster's or PhD degrees and working in the Humanities and SocialSciences on Southeast Asian topics, and will allow the recipients tobe based at NUS for an `in residence fellowship' for a period ofthree months.

The aim of the fellowship is to enable scholars to make full use of the wide range of resources held in the libraries of NUS and the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Scholars will be expected to commence on 4 May 2009, and to make a presentation on their work at the Singapore Graduate Forum on Southeast Asian Studies at the end of July 2009.

Applicants are invited to e-mail/facsimile/mail their curriculumvitae, a 2-page outline of their research proposal in English (this may be accompanied by a longer statement in a South east Asian language) to the address below by 15 November 2008.

Arrangements should also be made by which at least two letters of reference, one of which is from your principal supervisor, are sent confidentiallyto the same address by the same deadline.

The 2-page research proposal must include the following details:
1) Whether the data collection or fieldwork stage of theresearch has already been completed;
2) how the fellowship will contribute to the research;
3) the types of sources to be consulted in Singapore;
4) proposed work plan during the fellowship.

Successful candidates can expect the following benefits:
1) A monthly allowance of SGD$1,750 (inclusive of housingallowance).
2) A one time round trip travel subsidy by the most economicaland direct route on a reimbursement basis upon being accepted for thefellowship.
3) Access to library and computer resources on campus.

You can look forward to excellent library and internet computerfacilities at NUS' main library (http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/ ), the library at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS)(http://www.iseas.edu.sg/library.html ) and the Lee Kong Chian Reference Library at the National Library (http://www.nlb.gov.sg ) tofacilitate your research for the dissertation.

NUS' main library has 2 million volumes covering all topics while ISEAS' library has 200,000 on Southeast Asian topics, half of which are in Southeast Asian languages.

Selvi
Asia Research Institute
NUS Bukit Timah Campus
469A Tower Block #10-01
Bukit Timah Road,
Singapore 259770
Fax: 65 67791428
Website: http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/