Duties and responsibilities:

• Conduct innovative research in the following areas: Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Schooling, especially for teaching the sciences in schools; the use of ICTs in Teacher Education; and in School-based Teaching Practice (WIL) in general. 
• Author/co-author at least three (3) publication outputs per year in the form of DHET– accredited scholarly journal articles or books/chapters in books.
• The renewal of the fellowship beyond the first year depends on satisfactory performance and the submission of an annual progress report.
• Do limited teaching in the Teacher Education and Teaching Practice programmes, where appropriate.
• Provide limited supervision and/or co-supervision at Honours, Master’s and/or Doctoral level where appropriate.
• Register and reside as a postdoctoral research fellow at the UFS and participate in relevant activities of the School of Postgraduate Studies and the Directorate of Research.
• Conduct innovative research and obtain evidence- based empirical data on current educational developments in schools associated with the Faculty of Education.
• Prepare and present papers during seminars and other research events.

Competencies

Eligibility requirements:

• Open to all South African and foreign nationals for full-time research at the University of the Free State.
• Graduated with a PhD degree in Education with specialization on the use of Information and Communication and Technology (ICT) in Education within the last five years.
• Successful applicants may not hold full-time salaried employment during the fellowship
• Successful applicants must be able to relocate to the UFS for the duration of the fellowship. This is a residential fellowship: the successful applicant is required to spend 80% of her/his postdoctoral period at the UFS Bloemfontein Campus.

Value of the fellowship:

• R 240,000 annual fellowship.
• R 30,000 additional research expenses fund.