These positions are managed by the InSHS and are not the subject of a specific announcement, but are filled every year according to the procedures provided by the InSHS for the various categories of positions (see the InSHS page for more information).
Assignment of CNRS statutory researchers to IRASEC
The mobility file to be submitted to the InSHS management in February-March for an assignment in September.
The mobility file must include :
a research project an updated CV a letter (...)

Approach in your University
Delegations abroad follow the normal procedure of the reception campaign as a teacher-researcher delegation, generally launched in October November. The schedule of delegation requests is specific to each university and necessarily involves successive votes by the UFR Council and UFR Scientific Council and then by the university authorities (CA and Scientific Council). The teacher-researcher must obtain a favourable opinion from his university for his departure (...)

These grants are open to applicants of all nationalities who are enrolled in a doctoral program at a French university and conducting research on contemporary Southeast Asia. They are intended to support fieldwork related to the applicant’s doctoral research topic. Proposed research projects should offer an original and innovative perspective on Southeast Asia and fall within the disciplinary areas covered by IRASEC’s research activities :
Political transitions : political cultures, civil (...)

Within the framework of the SMI, Support for International Mobility, and in support of the development of scientific projects with an international dimension, InSHS offers researchers, including teacher-researchers and research engineers, units that it co-manages, assistance for carrying out research activities abroad.
This assistance covers all disciplines and all types of research missions (field work, consultation of sources, project development, collaborative writing of books or (...)

The InSHS opens a call for applications for the award of 4 doctoral contracts of 36 months in autumn for a submission of the application is usually mid-December. The purpose of the call is to examine applications submitted by a supervisor or co-supervisors qualified to supervise a thesis in a doctoral school, who propose a doctoral subject.
These dossiers must always be designed on the principle of a scientific set-up developed jointly between a research unit in France whose CNRS is (...)

The association link concerns researchers and teacher-researchers in any research or higher education institution, as well as independent researchers who collaborate with IRASEC and its members through collective projects carried out at or by IRASEC. This link is also of interest to doctoral students or young doctors based in Bangkok or in the South-East Asia region.
The projects must be in line with the laboratory’s thematic axes. Projects proposing cooperation and co-financing with other (...)

The Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (FMSH) and the Institut de recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est contemporaine (IRASEC) are offering 2 to 3 month mobility grants for young researchers to carry out a research project in a country in Southeast Asia.

2025 – ASEAN Doctoral Field Research Grant
2025 – Postdoctoral Fieldwork Research Grant in Singapore (in collaboration with the Institut français de Singapour)
2024 – Bourses de recherche en islamologie
2023 – Bourses de recherche en islamologie
2020 – Make Our Planet Great Again
2019 – Bourse ARTS pour une thèse au Cambodge
2016 – The AXA Research Fund will offer up to 25 Post-Doctoral (...)

Each year, IRASEC hosts internships for periods of four months each. The internship takes place at IRASEC’s headquarters in Bangkok (Thailand).
The Institute gives priority to Master’s students studying in the fields of political science, economics, contemporary history, and anthropology.
Internships last four months.
Duties consist mainly of copy-editing duties, media-monitoring of the ASEAN countries, putting together a timeline of major events throughout the year for each of the (...)