Relevant Fellowship Schemes
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Relevant fellowship schemes include:
- AHRC Catalyst Awards: up-to-five-year awards, to support researchers without prior experience of leading a significant research project. Applications can be made at any time. The funder aims to have completed the assessment process within nine-months of receipt of applications.
- BBSRC Fellowships: three-year fellowships. Applications usually open in February, due May, for fellowships commencing the following January onwards.
- Daphne Jackson Trust Fellowships: flexible fellowships for returners from a career break for health, family or caring reasons. Applications can be made at any time.
- European Research Council: Starting Grants for early-career researchers; Consolidator Grants for those looking to consolidate their independence by establishing a research team and continuing to develop a successful career in Europe; Advanced Grants for leading principal investigators who want long-term funding to pursue a ground-breaking, ambitious project.
- Marie Sklodowska-Curie European Postdoctoral Fellowships: 12 - 24 month fellowships targeting researchers holding a PhD who wish to carry out their research activities abroad, acquire new skills and develop their careers. Applications will open in April.
- NERC Independent Research Fellowships: five-year fellowships for early-career researchers. Applications will open in January, due April for fellowships commencing the following June.
- Royal Commission Exhibition of 1851, Research Fellowship: three-year fellowships for early-career researchers. Applications usually open in October, close in January the following year, for fellowships commencing in the summer/autumn.
- Royal Society University Research Fellowships: eight-year fellowships for early-career researchers in natural sciences (note, these can be held at a not-for-profit research organisation). Applications usually open in July, close September, for fellowships commencing the following May onwards.
- Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships: eight-year fellowships for outstanding postdoctoral scientists who require a flexible working pattern due to personal circumstances, such as caring responsibilities and/or health-related conditions. Applications usually open in September, close October/November, for fellowships commencing the following July onwards.
- Royal Society/British Academy Newton International Fellowships: three-year fellowships for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.
- UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships: four-year fellowships, extendable by a further three years. Applications usually open in February/March and close June/July, for fellowships commencing by the following November. Applications usually open in February, close June, for fellowships commencing the following June onwards. Applications will open 3 Feb, close 18 June.
- Wellcome Career Development Awards: eight-year awards for mid-career researchers from any discipline. Applications usually open three times a year.
- Wellcome Early-Career Awards: five-year awards for early-career researchers from any discipline. Applications usually open three times a year.