Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowship Call 2026

Call for Expressions of Interest in Marie Skłodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowship Call 2026

The School of Economics at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England is supporting applications for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) European Postdoctoral Fellowship for the 2026 Call, under the mentorship of Dr Oana Borcan, Associate Professor in Economics.

MSCA European Postdoctoral Fellowship provides excellent financial compensation and research support for the best researcher, enabling them to move to an EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country (of which the UK is one) for 12-24 months. The submission deadline date is 9 September 2026.

We invite expressions of interest for applications within the following areas of research:

• Women’s Economic Empowerment and freedom from violence. Example topics: impact evaluation of livelihoods programmes, women’s entrepreneurship, protection against gender-based violence, including intimate partner violence and sexualised corruption, peer mentoring.
• Corruption and Sustainable Development. Example topics: the closure of international aid programmes and corruption; combatting sexual corruption; corruption and violent conflict; corruption and climate resilience and food security; corruption and health. 

Research proposals may feature any of a range of methodologies for causal inference: field, lab or online experiments, or quasi-experimental designs (e.g difference-in-differences).

For more information on University of East Anglia, and School of Economics, please see https://www.uea.ac.uk/about/school-of-economics.

The School will provide support and guidance to develop one promising application that fits into one of the research areas listed above. All expressions of interest should meet the eligibility criteria of the scheme as well as the additional criteria for support by UEA.

Eligibility criteria

To be eligible for the MSCA European Postdoctoral Fellowship, applicants must hold a doctoral degree, and must have no more than eight years of full time research experience. Applicants can be of any nationality but must not have resided or carried out the main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the UK for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the proposal submission deadline.

Additional criteria

Applicants must have been awarded a doctoral degree from an accredited higher education institution, preferably in economics, international development, political science, international relations, psychology.

Applicants must have a track record - appropriate to career stage - of peer-reviewed publication(s) in internationally recognised outlets.

Expressions of interest

Expressions of interest should be emailed to Dr Oana Borcan (o.borcan@uea.ac.uk) and Research Director Dr Franco Mariuzzo (f.mariuzzo@uea.ac.uk) via the above 'Apply' button by 31^st July 2026. Your expression of interest should include the following:

1) A copy of your CV (following the MSCA European Postdoctoral Fellowship guidelines; maximum 5 pages).

2) A good quality outline draft of Part B-1 of the MSCA European Postdoctoral Fellowship application form, maximum 2 pages.

3) Your contact details.

Selection Process

Expressions of interest will be assessed by a panel. The most promising applicant based on the relative strength of CVs and proposals in relation to the MSCA award criteria, will be provided with further guidance and support to submit a full MSCA European Postdoctoral Fellowship application to be hosted at UEA.

Please ensure that you consult the comprehensive guidance documents on the MSCA section of the European Commission’s Funding & Tenders Portal before starting your application.

We will be in contact with the applicant we feel we has the strongest potential by 10^th August 2026.

We look forward to reading your applications!

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