Postdoctoral Research Fellowship - Department Business Management (2-Year Contract) (Job ID: 5825) at University of the Free State

Eligibility requirements:

• Open to all South African and foreign nationals for full-time research at the University if the Free State. 
• Graduated with a PhD degree in a relevant discipline within the last five years.
• Successful applicants may not hold full-time salaried employment during the fellowship.
• Successful applicants must be able to relocate to the UFS for the duration of the fellowship. This is a residential fellowship: the successful applicant is required to spend 80% of her/his postdoctoral period at the UFS.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Conduct innovative research in the following areas: women entrepreneurship, gender, work-family conflict, family support, work-life balance; entrepreneurial intention and behaviour, business outcomes (growth, survival performance and exit).
• Author/co-author at least three (3) publication outputs per year in the form of DHET–accredited scholarly journal articles or books/chapters in books. The renewal of the fellowship beyond the first year depends on satisfactory performance and the submission of an annual progress report.
• Initiate projects and seek funding for them.
• Register and reside as postdoctoral research fellow at the UFS and participate in relevant activities of the School of Postgraduate Studies and the Directorate of Research