Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) – Postdoctoral Fellowships

The Taiwan Foundation for Democracy (TFD) is the first democracy assistance foundation to be established in Asia, being devoted to strengthening democracy and human rights in Taiwan and abroad.

One of the TFD’s core purposes is to promote research into global democratic and human rights development in order to advance democracy-building theory and practice.  The TFD grants Postdoctoral Fellowships to scholars who have recently received their PhD and intend to begin their academic careers. Research into Taiwan’s democratization experience can provide lessons for other democratizing countries, as well as identify areas where Taiwan still needs to improve. Therefore, comparative research with reference to other newly democratized countries is also encouraged.

Postdoctoral Fellows should possess a Ph.D. or equivalent in a relevant field at the time of application, and may have received their doctoral degrees up to seven years prior to application. As the Postdoctoral Fellowship is designed to provide foreign scholars with the opportunity to study Taiwan’s democracy and human rights, Taiwanese citizens are not eligible to apply. The Postdoctoral Fellowship will include a stipend of NT$45,000 per month to assist with living expenses in Taiwan. The TFD will also reimburse those Postdoctoral Fellows who are outside of Taiwan at the time their fellowship begins for the cost of a round-trip plane ticket to Taipei.