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Calls for Post-Doctoral Fellowships

Call for Applications

2025-2026 Post-Doctoral Fellowships

in Child and Youth Rights

The Child and Youth Rights Program (ChYRP)
at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Minerva Center for Human Rights

is accepting applications for Post-Doctoral Fellowships in 2025-2026

ChYRP aims to promote research, pedagogy, and dissemination of knowledge in the field of child rights (aged 0- 18). ChYRP uses the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) as the blueprint for the program agenda and fosters interdisciplinary scholarship with a preference for rights-respecting methodologies. Each year ChYRP emphasizes a different right outlined in the CRC. For the 2025-26 academic year, the program will give preference to studies related to the principle “the best interest of the child” (Article 3, CRC).

Terms of the Fellowships:

  1. The Fellowship awards the status of a Research Fellow for the 2025-2026 academic year (1 October 2025 – 30 September 2026) at the Child and Youth Rights Program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Minerva Center for Human Rights, Faculty of Law.

  2. The one-year scholarship will be in the amount of 144,000 NIS (12,000 NIS per month).

  3. Fellows will not engage in other employment during the period of the fellowship, aside from teaching or

    other academic activities at the Hebrew University.

  4. In special cases, a Fellow can spend part of the year at an approved academic institution abroad. ChYRP can

    assist in finding a fitting academic venue abroad if needed.

  5. Once admitted to the program, Fellows may apply for additional funding for participation in local and

    international conferences or for other research-related activities.

  6. An extension of the Fellowship for an additional year may be considered in cases of empirical research

    involving child participation, or where the research design otherwise warrants it.

Requirements:

1. The Fellowships are open to researchers from all disciplines related to issues of child and youth rights, including law, social work, medicine, criminology, education, and sociology.

2. Applicants must have received their Doctorate diploma no earlier than October 2021 and no later than June 2025.

  1. The Applicant’s research plan must address current themes and challenges in the fields of child rights and should be guided by the CRC, preferably focusing on the best interest of the child principle.

  2. Candidates interested in researching children in Israel may also consider topics such as children living in the periphery, children of asylum-seekers, Palestinian children in Israel or the OPT, immigrants, LGBTQI, children from ultra-orthodox communities, and children with special needs.

  3. The research plan may involve any one or several methodologies, including legal-doctrinal, theoretical, comparative, quantitative, qualitative, action research, and experimental, with emphasis on child participation in research.

6. Fellows are expected to take part and contribute to the activities of ChYRP and the Minerva Center throughout the year, including weekly seminars and meetings.

7. Fellows are expected to complete a peer-reviewed article during the year and to present it at academic events.

Application instructions:

1. Applications should include:

  1. Research plan (up to two pages) describing the intended research topic, the importance and relevance of the research question to the field of children’s rights, the methodology, and relevant theoretical frameworks.

  2. Candidates considering spending part of the Fellowship abroad, should state in the research plan the desired destination and supervisor if known, and justifications for that choice.

  3. Summary of the Applicant’s doctoral thesis (up to one page).

  4. Official confirmation of the date the Ph.D. was awarded or (if not yet approved) submitted.

  5. Curriculum vitae, including list of publications.

  6. Two recommendation letters, including one from the doctoral supervisor.

G. A one-page research plan summary written in accessible language (English, Hebrew, or Arabic) for young readers (ages 12-18), explaining your research topic and its importance for children's rights. ChYRP’s youth advisory boards will review these summaries and provide their input as part of the selection process.

2. All documents should be combined into one PDF file.

3. Please submit applications (and questions) to the Child and Youth Rights Program via email:

chyrp@mail.huji.ac.il

Deadline for applications: February 28th, 2025

Interviews of select candidates will be held in March. Final decisions - by the end of March.