ASEAN Research Scholars 2008

The Asia Research Institute of NUS invites applications from ASEAN citizens enrolled for a fulltime advanced degree at a university in an ASEAN country (except Singapore) for consideration as ASEAN Research Scholars. These fellowships are offered to current graduate students working in the Humanities and Social Sciences on Southeast Asian topics, and will allow the recipients to be based at NUS for an ‘in residence fellowship’
for a period of three 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 1 May 2008, and to make a presentation on their work at the Singapore Graduate Forum on
Southeast Asian Studies at the end of July 2008.

Successful candidates can expect the following
benefits:

1) A monthly allowance of SGD$1,750 (inclusive of
housing allowance).
2) A one time round trip travel subsidy by the most
economical and direct route on a reimbursement basis
upon being accepted for
the fellowship.
3) Access to library and computer resources on campus.


Applicants are invited to e-mail/facsimile/mail their
curriculum vitae, a 2-page outline of their research
proposal in English
(this may be accompanied by a longer statement in a
Southeast Asian language) to the address below by 15
November 2007.
Arrangements should also be made by which at least two
letters of reference, one of which is from your
principal supervisor, are
sent confidentially to the same address by the same
deadline.

The 2-page outline of the research proposal must
include the following details:

1) Whether the data collection or fieldwork stage of
the research 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.

You can look forward to excellent library and internet
computer facilities 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) to facilitate 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
E-mail : arikk@nus.edu.sg
Fax: 65 67791428
Website: http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/