Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) Senior Research Fellowship 2024

The selection of candidates will follow the procedure outlined below:

• Initial Screening: Applications will be scrutinised and shortlisted by a screening committee.
• Merit-Based Shortlisting: Subject-specific expert committees will further shortlist meritorious proposals from the eligible applications.
• Expert Interaction: Shortlisted applicants will be invited to present their proposals and interact with an expert committee.
• Recommendation and Approval: Following the interaction, the expert committee(s) will prepare recommendations for the award, which will be submitted to the relevant committee(s) for approval.
• Announcement of Results: The list of selected candidates will be uploaded on the ICSSR website.

• Incomplete applications in any respect will not be considered for the fellowship.
• A fellow is not eligible for the same fellowship or pay protection more than once.
• ICSSR follows the Government of India Rules and Directives regarding SC and ST and persons with benchmark disabilities.
• Fellows who have completed their fellowship duration but wish to continue using the title with their name should prefix 'Former' and suffix the fellowship name with 'the duration', e.g. Former National/Senior/Post-Doctoral Fellow ICSSR (2016-18).
• The ICSSR expert committee also reserves the right to convert a fellowship proposal into a project proposal. 
• The fellowship is initially sanctioned for one year, effective from the scholar's joining date.
• The renewal of the fellowship for the subsequent year is subject to receiving a satisfactory annual progress report and a statement of account for the entire first-year fellowship grant.
• The fellowship may be discontinued if the fellow's research is unsatisfactory or violates any ICSSR rules.
• Upon accepting the position, a fellow cannot hold any other fellowship, research project, or regular financial benefit/assignment from any other institution. 
• The scholar must join the fellowship within one month of the award letter date by submitting all required documents to the affiliating/administering institution. Extensions up to a few months may be granted in exceptional circumstances with prior ICSSR approval. 
• Faculty with regular service in public-funded universities/colleges and research institutes receiving UGC pay scales may be considered for pay protection in exceptionally meritorious cases, as decided by ICSSR expert committees. 

• The fellowship can be transferred from one affiliating institution to another upon the scholar's request under special circumstances, subject to ICSSR approval and submission of the following documents:

  • A satisfactory progress report.

  • No-objection certificates from both the previous and proposed universities/institutions.

  • An audited statement of accounts and a utilisation certificate, along with any unspent balance.

Note:- For more details of the fellowship, kindly check the 'Fellowship Details'.