Bourse ADEFFI / Ambassade de France
« Début de carrière » 2024–2025
* Currently closed for applications *
This award will fund my research trip to the 2025 iteration of Quais du polar, a crime fiction festival which takes place annually in Lyon. The festival draws together readers, publishers and high-profile crime fiction authors from around the world, particularly from France and francophone countries, and hosts film screenings, cultural events and even mystery tours in honour of France’s rich tradition of crime writing. The festival’s programme is largely comprised of public interviews, roundtable discussions between authors and academics, and panel discussions on topics ranging from genre diversification to the contemporary crime novel’s efforts to grapple with climate change, political extremism and racism. Recent iterations of Quais du polar have laid heavy emphasis on the interactions between gender, feminism and genre in contemporary French crime fiction which are part of Ciara’s nascent research project on le polar féministe, an emerging subgenre of French crime fiction. Her trip to the festival will allow her to meet and interview several of the authors whose work is described as feminist crime fiction, kickstarting that portion of her research which considers feminist crime writing in the context of both public feminist activism and the rising tide of anti-feminist sentiment online and in real life.
Dr Ciara Gorman (University College Dublin)
Lauréate de Bourse Adeffi / Ambassade de France « Début de carrière » 2024–2025
ADEFFI – in collaboration with the French Embassy in Ireland – is pleased to offer its inaugural Early-Career Researcher Funding for 2024–2025. This award of €1,000 is dedicated to helping any post-doctoral researcher who completed a PhD in any area of French and/or Francophone Studies on the island of Ireland by funding a short trip to France. The award is especially intended to strengthen a current research project and future applications to other funding bodies. To be considered eligible, applicants should have completed their viva no more than three years prior to the application deadline. Exceptions may be granted in the case of maternity leave, sick leave and career breaks. Those who have benefitted from post-doctoral funding grants are eligible to apply, but preference may be given to applicants not currently in receipt of funding.
L’ADEFFI (Association des Études Françaises et Francophones d’Irlande), en collaboration avec l’Ambassade de France en Irlande, a l’honneur d’annoncer le lancement de sa première Bourse « Début de carrière » pour l’année 2024–2025. Ce financement à hauteur de 1 000€ est destiné à couvrir les frais associés à un court séjour en France pour une personne résidant sur l’île d’Irlande en début de parcours professionnel dans la recherche sur les études françaises et/ou francophones. Cette bourse a pour objectif de renforcer le projet de recherche actuel et le profil professionnel relatif à l’obtention de bourses compétitives de recherche. Pour être éligible, les candidat·e·s devront avoir soutenu leur thèse doctorale dans les trois ans maximum précédant la date butoir de dépôt des candidatures. Des exceptions seront faites pour les périodes de césure et/ou de congés maternité/maladie. Les candidat·e·s ayant bénéficié et/ou bénéficiant actuellement d’un financement compétitif de recherche sont éligibles à la Bourse ADEFFI « Début de carrière ». Les candidat·e·s n’ayant pas de tels financements compétitifs pourront avoir la priorité.
