Upcoming
FY2025 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Call (for STEM subjects only)
Application Deadline: Wednesday 12th March 2025
Fellowships are expected to commence between 1st September to 30th November 2025.
This fellowship provides the opportunity for researchers based outside of Japan to conduct collaborative research activities with leading research groups at Japanese universities and research institutions for visits of between 12 to 24 months.
Eligible applicants should be a UK resident and currently based at a UK university or research institution. The applicant needs to have finished their PhD at the time of applying to start their fellowship in Japan or have obtained their PhD on or after 2nd April 2019.
Eligible research fields must be within the remit of natural sciences, which includes but is not limited to biological research, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics.
Funds can cover:
1. round-trip air ticket
2. monthly maintenance allowance of 362,000 yen (approximately £1,900)
3. settling-in allowance of 200,000 yen (approximately £1,000)
4. overseas travel insurance
5. a research grant, “Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research” (Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow), is available to cover cooperative research-related expenses. An application for this grant is made by the Japanese host researcher through their institution
Please note that the duration of the fellowship may not be divided into multiple stays.
Applications for this fellowship should be submitted to The Royal Society as our nominating authority. Please visit this web page for further information:
https://royalsociety.org/grants/jsps-postdoctoral/
FY2025 Call for the JSPS London Symposium and Seminar Scheme
JSPS London's primary aims include publicising academic research from Japan and strengthening collaborative research linkages between the UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) and Japan. To help achieve these aims, JSPS London has created this scheme to support events organised by members of the JSPS Alumni Association of the UK and RoI or by Japanese Researchers based in the UK or RoI at institutional or departmental level. These events should aim to create high quality collaboration in cutting edge fields or showcase research in areas where Japan and the UK or RoI are world leading, and can be a symposium or smaller scale seminar. Both kinds of events can either focus on UK or RoI-Japan bilateral collaboration or be part of an international conference that aims to develop trusted multilateral partnerships with Japan and the UK and/or RoI at the centre.
Please download the Application Guidelines and Form from here:
Closing date: Monday 10th February, 2025 at 9:00 am (UK time)
Timeframe for events to be held: Between June 2025 to the end of February 2026
Contact details: All completed application forms should be e mailed to JSPS London at:
UK-Japan Seminar: Robotics, Religion and Ethics
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Friday 28th February 2025
Room: Engineering B_2B.025 M&T, Oxford Road Campus, University of Manchester
This multidisciplinary seminar is supported by the JSPS London Symposium and Seminar Scheme. The event’s aim is to bring together experts in robotics, machine learning, AI, ethics and religion and who are based in the UK, EU and Japan, to address timely questions and larger debates over the ethical implications of AI and human-robot interactions. This will include discussion on the state of the art current applications of social robots and human-robot interaction in care and religion, and discussion and application of ethics principles and guidelines for future research on ethical AI and robotics systems.
For more information about this seminar including event programme and registration, please visit the following link: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/universityofmanchester5/1489400
Recent Activities
JSPS London co-organised the workshop with the UK Academy of Medical Sciences on 16-17 October 2024, focusing on how to improve the resilience of health and public health systems in light of climate and environmental change. The workshop was attended by more than 40 researchers based in UK and Japan as well as related policy-makers.
The aims of the workshop were to:
・Bring together multisectoral expertise across the fields of climate and health, public health systems resilience, health inequalities, and planetary health
・Comprehensively identify and share country-specific initiative successes and challenges, knowledge, and expertise relating to this to learn from these and how they can be applied in Japan and the UK
・Understand where knowledge and research gaps lie and identify opportunities to address these in both countries
・Provide an opportunity for networking and a platform to share experiences between experts from Japan, the UK and internationally, and to identify the added benefit of international collaboration for this topic
