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BEAMS School Fellowships List Faculties of Built Environment (Bartlett), Engineering Sciences and Mathematical and
Physical Sciences (MAPS)
Last update November 2019
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Table of Contents
RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP SCHEMES 2
EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS 2
EARLY/MID CAREER RESEARCHERS 6
MID CAREER/SENIOR RESEARCHERS 8
ESTABLISHED RESEARCHERS 9
PERMANENT ACADEMICS 9
OTHER FELLOWSHIPS 11
RETURNERS & FLEXIBLE WORKING PATTERN 11
KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE & COMMERCIALISATION & SPIN OUT 12
INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH IN INDUSTRY 13
INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS: COMING TO THE UK & GOING ABROAD 14
APPENDIX: FUNDERS’ REMIT 16
LONDON’S GLOBAL UNIVERSITY
BEAMS Research Facilitators
Research Fellowship Schemes Early Career Researchers
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RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP SCHEMES
EARLY CAREER RESEARCHERS
Funder – Scheme BEAMS comments Deadlines
BBSRC – Discovery Fellowship Remit: funders’ remit, includes tools and technology underpinning biological research and BBSRC strategic priorities areas
Post-PhD limit: 5 years
Duration: 3 years
Funding: include salary, travel and subsistence, research consumables and training activities but not equipment - Cap: £300,000 (80%FEC)
Note: the applicant must hold a degree from a UK HE or have been in continuous UK academic employment for more than 4 months prior to the deadline
Latest deadline:
May 2019
EPSRC – Postdoctoral Fellowship Remit: refer to list of Themes
Duration: up to 3 years
Funding: includes your salary, travel and subsistence and research expenses including consumables, but only equipment costing under £10k – no staff
Applications can be submitted at any time
EPSRC/STFC - Stephen Hawking Fellowship Remit: all areas of theoretical physics and areas of mathematics and computer sciences which underpin and contribute to the development of theoretical physics.
Funding: includes salary, travel, visiting researchers, consumables, access to facilities and support for training on public engagement and scientific communication (both essential) – Total amount available £15M, each year up to 10 fellowships
Note: suitable also to applicants who have taken a non-standard career path after their primary degree and returners
Latest deadline:
June 2019 (Intent)
July 2019 (Full)
[1 call per year until 2024]
ESRC - New Investigator Grant (replaces the Future Research Leaders scheme)
Remit: the full disciplinary range of the social sciences and at the interface with the wider sciences (social sciences must represent at least 50 per cent of the research focus and effort)
Post-PhD limit: 4 years
Applications can be submitted at any time
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Duration: 5 years
Funding: includes your salary, travel and subsistence, research expenses and RAs - Cap £ 300,000 (FEC)
Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research - Heilbronn Research Fellowship
Remit: include, but are not restricted to, algebra, algebraic geometry, combinatorics, computational statistics, data science, number theory, probability, and quantum information. These areas are interpreted broadly.
Duration: 3 years
Funding: salary (range: £38,017-£42,792) plus the London weighting, salary supplement (£3,500/year) and research expenses (£2,500/year)
Latest deadline:
November 2019
Leverhulme Trust - Early Career Fellowship Remit: all subject areas except studies of disease, clinical practice or medical applications
Post-PhD limit: 4 years
Duration: 3 years
Funding: includes 50% of the salary (£25,000/year) and research expenses (£6,000/year)
Note: The applicant must hold a degree from a UK HE or have been in continuous UK academic employment for more than 4 months prior to the deadline.
27 February 2020
NERC - Independent Research Fellowship Remit: environmental science (at least 50%)
Post-PhD limit: max 8 years full time post-doctoral experience
Duration: 5 years
Funding: includes your salary, travel, staff and research expenses including consumables, but only equipment costing under £10k - No limit as long as justified (£500,000 suggested)
Note: No Co-investigator allowed
Latest deadline:
October 2019
Rosetrees Trust - Young Enterprise Fellowship Remit: engineering, computer science, maths and physics applied to biomedical addressing an important unmet clinical problem (within a UK university)
Post-PhD limit: 3 years
Duration: 3 years
Funding: includes salary and research expenses, no staff – Cap £ 60,000/year (no FEC)
Opens in:
December 2019
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Royal Academy of Engineering - Research Fellowship
Remit: engineering-focused research project
Post-PhD limit: 4 years
Duration: up to 5 years
Funding: includes your salary, travel and research expenses with some limitation (detailed in the Applicant Guidance Notes). No staff - Cap: £ 500,000 (80%FEC)
Note: Internal selection process in place [please refer to BEAMS RCO website for info on previous rounds]
Last deadline:
September 2019
Royal Academy of Engineering - Engineering for Development Research Fellowship
Support research that meets the UK government’s Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitment. Refer to the ODA guidelines
The scheme is the same as the RAEng Research Fellowship
See Above
Royal Academy of Engineering - UK Intelligence Community (IC) Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Remit: refer to Research Topics 2019 The scheme is designed to promote unclassified basic research in areas of interest to the intelligence, security and defence communities.
Post-PhD limit: 4 years
Duration: 2 years
Funding: includes your salary, travel and research expenses with some limitation (detailed in the Applicant Guidance Notes). No staff - Cap £200,000 (80%FEC)
Opens in:
January 2020
Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 - Research Fellowships in Science or Engineering
Remit: any of the physical or biological sciences, mathematics, applied science, or any branch of engineering
Post-PhD limit: max 3 years of post-doctoral research
Duration: 3 years
Funding: includes full payroll cost (i.e. salary, employer’s national insurance, USS contribution, apprenticeship levy) and expense allowance of £6,000/year
Note: There are two possible arrangements for taking on a Fellowship (2020 Terms and conditions)
6 February 2020
Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 - 1851 Brunel Fellowship
Remit: civil, mechanical and aeronautical engineering
Note: collaboration with industry is encouraged 6 February 2020
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Same scheme as the Royal Commission 1851 Research Fellowships
in Science or Engineering See Above
Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 - Built Environment Fellowship
Remit: built environment. A different specific title is decided by the funder each year.
Duration: 2 years
Funding: Cap: £50,000/year
Note: suitable for returners
Opens in 2021
Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 – Design Fellowship
Remit: Design. A different specific title is decided by the funder each year.
Opens in June 2020
SCI/Ramsay Trust Foundation - Ramsay Trust Memorial Fellowship
Remit: chemistry
Post-PhD limit: some postdoctoral experience is required
Duration: 2 years
Funding: includes 50% of the salary (£17,500/year), research expenses (£1,000) and free 1-year SCI membership
Note: the scheme is normally co-funded by a university department
Last deadline
November 2019
Urban Studies Foundation - Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
Remit: urban studies
Post-PhD limit: 5 years
Duration: 3 years
Funding: £160,000 to cover mainly PI’s salary – Cap: £53,334/year (annual award to the host institution)
Last deadline:
October 2019
Wellcome Trust - Sir Henry Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship
Remit: basic, public health (across disciplines)
Duration: 4 years
Funding: incudes salary, fellowship supplement (£2,500/year), research expenses (no major equipment, no staff, no overheads) - Cap £300,000
15 April 2020 (Preliminary application)
23 June 2020 (full)
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Research Fellowship Schemes Early / Mid Career Researchers
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EARLY/MID CAREER RESEARCHERS
Funder – Scheme BEAMS comments Deadlines
BBSRC - David Phillips Fellowship Remit: funders’ remit, includes tools and technology underpinning biological research and BBSRC strategic priorities areas
Post-PhD limit: ≥ 3 years
Duration: 5 years
Funding: includes salary and significant research support – Cap: £1M (80%FEC)
Latest deadline:
May 2019
Cancer Research UK - Career Development Fellowship
Remit: cancer-related research including improving how cancer is diagnosed and/or treated (no clinical or drug discovery)
Duration: 6 years
Funding: includes salaries (enhancement of £6,500 is paid each year of the funding period), running expenses and equipment for you and up to two posts. You may choose from a postdoc, a technician and/or a (non-clinical) PhD student
5 February 2020 (preliminary)
21 May 2020 (full)
[2 calls a year]
EPSRC – Early Career Fellowship Remit: Remit: Refer to list of Themes
Duration: 5 years
Funding: includes salary, research expenses, staff, travel, equipment
Applications can be submitted at any time
ERC - Starting Grant Remit: all disciplines
Post-PhD limit: form 2 to 7 years
Duration: 5 years
Funding: includes salary (0-100%), staff, research expenses, travel, major equipment, access to large facilities – Cap: € 1.5M (additional € 1M can be made available to cover eligible “start-up” costs for researchers moving from a third country to the EU)
Note: Internal selection process is in place [please refer to BEAMS RCO website for info on previous rounds]
Latest deadline:
October 2019
STFC - Ernest Rutherford Fellowship Remit: astronomy, solar and planetary science, particle physics, particle astrophysics, cosmology, nuclear physics, accelerator science
Latest deadline:
September 2019
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Duration: 5 years
Funding: includes salary, research expenses, travel (80%FEC)
Note1: strict limit on the number of applications that each department may submit, see here
Note2: Suitable for returners after at least 1 year
Royal Society – University Research Fellowship Remit: funder’s remit which includes but is not limited to biological research, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics.
Post-PhD limit: from 3 to 8 years
Duration: 5 + 3 years
Funding: salary (up to £40,681.46 in the first year), research expenses (£13,000 in year one then £11,000/year), contribution to a
4-year PhD student and equipment as per the Scheme Notes
Note: Additional research expenses of up to £40,000 in 2020/21 will also be awarded
Opens in July 2020
Royal Society/Wellcome Trust – Sir Henry Dale Fellowship
Remit: research ranging from molecules and the cells vital to life, to the spread of diseases and vectors of disease around the world, to public health research (including systems-based research and informatics)
Duration: 5+3 years
Funding: includes salary, supplement (£7,500/year), research expenses and staff
Latest deadlines:
August 2019 (preliminary)
October 2019 (full)
[3 times a year]
UKRI – Future Leaders Fellowships Remit: any discipline
Duration: 4 + 3 years
Funding: includes tapered salary, research expenses, PDRAs, travel and subsistence, equipment– Cap: £1.2M
Note 1: No restrictions on current employment status, but will need to relinquish responsibilities if the successful applicant is a permanent academic
Note2: Internal selection process is in place [please refer to BEAMS RCO website for info on previous rounds]
Expected closing dates for future rounds:
June 2020 (round 5)
January 2021 (round 6 – last round)
Wellcome Trust - Research Fellowships in Humanities and Social Science
Remit: health-related humanities and social sciences
Duration: 3 years 7 January 2020
(Preliminary application)
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Funding: includes salary and research expenses 9 an ward will not usually be above £275,000)
Note: suitable also for returners after 2+ years
19 March 2020 (full)
[2 calls a year]
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MID CAREER/SENIOR RESEARCHERS
Funder – Scheme BEAMS comments Deadlines
ERC – Consolidator Grant Remit: all disciplines. The aim is to consolidate your independence
Post-PhD limit: form 7 to 12 years
Duration: 5 years
Funding: includes salary (0-100%), staff, research expenses, travel, major equipment, access to large facilities – Cap: € 2M (additional € 1M can be made available to cover eligible “start-up” costs for researchers moving from a third country to the EU)
4 February 2020
Wellcome Trust – Senior Research Fellowship Remit: includes basic (not clinical) and population health (population-based research)
Duration: typically 5 years but can be up to 7 years (after this you can apply for one renewal of up to 5 years with 50% of your salary covered by the Trust)
Funding: includes salary, supplement (£12,500), staff and research expenses
Latest deadline:
November 2019
[2 calls a year]
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Research Fellowship Schemes Established Researchers
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ESTABLISHED RESEARCHERS
Funder – Scheme BEAMS comments Deadlines
EPSRC - Established Career Fellowship Remit: refer to list of Themes
Duration: 5 years
Funding: includes salary, research expenses, staff, travel, equipment
Applications can be submitted at any time
ERC – Advanced Grant Remit: all disciplines
Post-PhD limit: ≥ 10 years (researchers who have a track-record of significant research achievements in the last 10 years)
Duration: 5 years
Funding: includes salary (0-100%), staff, research expenses, travel, major equipment, access to large facilities – Cap: € 2.5M (additional € 1M can be made available to cover eligible “start-up” costs for researchers moving from a third country to the EU)
Opens in May 2020
Wellcome Trust - Principal Research Fellowship Remit: includes basic (not clinical) and population health (population-based research)
Duration: 5 or 7 years (after this you can apply for one renewal)
Funding: includes salary, a Distinction Award of up to £50,000, staff and research expenses
Applications can be submitted at any time
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PERMANENT ACADEMICS
Funder – Scheme BEAMS comments Deadlines
Leverhulme Trust – Research Fellowship For experienced researchers who have been prevented by routine duties from completing a programme of original research.
Remit: all subject areas except studies of disease, clinical practice or medical applications
Latest deadline:
November 2019
Research Fellowship Schemes Permanent Academics
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Duration: 3 – 24 months
Funding: include salary or replacement and research expenses - Cap: £55,000
Leverhulme Trust – Major Research Fellowship For well-established, distinguished researchers who are or have been prevented by routine duties from completing a programme of original research.
Remit: social sciences (and humanities)
Duration: 2 or 3 years
Funding: includes replacement salary costs and may include research expenses (max £6,000/year)
Latest deadline:
May 2019
Royal Academy of Engineering - Senior Research Fellowship
For academics (lecturers/read/equivalent) who want to undertake use-inspired research that meets the needs of the industrial partners
Remit: funder’s remit
Duration: 5 years
Funding: provides funding for a collaboration between the applicant, their industry sponsor, and their host university - Cap: £225,000 (£45,000/year)
Note: the awardee can spend no more than 4 hours per week on teaching/administration duties
Latest deadline:
September 2019
[2 calls a year]
Royal Academy of Engineering - Research Chair
For Professors who want to undertake use-inspired research that meets the needs of the industrial partners. The scheme is the same as the RAEng Senior Research Fellowship
See Above
Latest deadline:
September 2019
Royal Academy of Engineering - Chair in Emerging Technologies
For Professors or academics who would be strongly considered for Professorial promotion at present to lead on developing emerging technology areas with high potential to deliver economic and social benefit to the UK
Duration: 10 years
Funding: includes salary, staff, research expenses and start-up cost depending on the year (see the Applicant Notes) - Cap £ 2.78M
Note: approval and support for your proposal from your Dean needed
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Royal Society/Wellcome Trust - Senior Research Fellowship
For academics who need full-time research without teaching and administrative duties
Opens in
November 2019
Research Fellowship Schemes Permanent Academics
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Remit: funders’ remit
Duration: 1 term-1 academic year
Funding: includes consumable (£2,500). In addition, the applicant’s employing institution will be reimbursed for the full salary cost (including USS and NI) of a teaching replacement (up to the equivalent of the minimum point on the lectureship scale as paid by the host university).
Royal Society/Wolfson Foundation - Wolfson Fellowship
For who holds a permanent post or have received a firm offer.
Remit: Life and physical sciences, including engineering, but excluding clinical medicine
Duration: 5 years
Funding: Salary enhancement (up to 20%), research expenses(100%), PDRA(80%), 4 year PhD student - Cap: 150,000 / oversea applicants 250,000
Note: available fast-track application route for ‘emergency’ recruitment and retention cases
Latest deadline:
November 2019
[3 calls a year]
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OTHER FELLOWSHIPS
RETURNERS & FLEXIBLE WORKING PATTERN
Funder – Scheme BEAMS comments Deadlines
Daphne Jackson Trust - Daphne Jackson Fellowship
For STEM professionals who have had a career break of 2+ years
Post-PhD limit: ≥ 3 years
Note: to apply you may 1) identify a research area and a university to host the fellowship, or 2) apply for an advertised sponsored fellowship Sponsored Fellowship opportunities are
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advertised periodically on the Daphne Jackson Trust website, university websites and in other publications.
EPSRC/STFC - Stephen Hawking Fellowships See Above
STFC - Returner Fellowships Same as STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship See Above
Royal Society - Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship For ECRs who require a flexible working patter due to personal circumstances (family, health, caring responsibilities)
Remit: Funder’s remit
Post-PhD limit: 6 years
Duration: 5 years
Funding: includes Salary, research expenses (up to £13,000 year 1 and up to £11,000 thereafter), Contribution to a four-year PhD studentship, equipment, public engagement and PDRA
Latest deadline:
November 2019
Wellcome Trust - Career Re-entry Fellowships For people who want to return to a research career after a break of two years or more.
Remit: includes basic research (not clinical) and public health
Duration: 4 years
Funding: includes salary, personal support (£7,500) and research expenses. No staff.
15 April 2020 (Preliminary)
23 June 2020 (full)
[2 calls a year]
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KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE & COMMERCIALISATION & SPIN OUT
Funder – Scheme BEAMS comments Deadlines
BBSRC/ Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) - Enterprise Fellowship
Open to all who are seeking to build on BBSRC-funded research (PhDs, PDRAs, Fellows, Lecturers, Professors etc.). Designed to encourage the development of a new business around a technological idea developed by the applicant.
Duration: 1 year
Latest deadline:
1 November 2019
Other Fellowships Returners / Commercialisation / Industrial / Mobility
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Funding: includes 1 year's salary and business training – Cap £90,000 (here the RSE website)
STFC - IPS Fellowship Support a knowledge exchange and commercialisation professional in a position at a UK university in developing innovation and impact from its STFC-funded research outputs.
Note: this is not a research fellowship and there are 3 different schemes available
20 February 2020
STFC/ Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) - Enterprise Fellowship
Support for STFC funded scientists who want to develop a business idea based on STFC funded research
Funding: includes 1 year's salary and business training – Cap £90,000 (here the RSE website)
Latest deadline:
April 2019
Royal Academy of Engineering - Enterprise Fellowships
Supports innovative, creative entrepreneurial engineers. Open to all levels.
Funding: includes up to £60,000 equity-free funding, training, marketing and access to a drop-in space in central London
Note: If you successfully complete the Enterprise Fellowship Programme you will be invited to become an Enterprise Hub Member, and you will continue to receive an exceptional package of lifetime support
Latest deadlines:
August 2019 (stage 1)
September 2019 (stage 2)
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INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH IN INDUSTRY
Funder – Scheme BEAMS comments Deadlines
Royal Academy of Engineering - Industrial Fellowship
For permanent academics (not for Professorial candidates) who have a minimum of two years teaching experience and are currently teaching engineering to undertake a collaborative research project in an industrial environment.
Duration: 3-months to 2-years full time or up to 4-years part-time
Opens towards the end of the year
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Funding: includes salary costs (excluding overheads) of the applicant (including National Insurance and superannuation) paid pro-rata against the amount of time to be spent at the industry host - Cap: £50,000/year
Royal Society – Industry Fellowship For academics who want to work on a collaborative project with industry and for scientists in industry who want to work on a collaborative project with an academic organisation
Remit: funders’ remit
Duration: 2 years (full time) or 4 years (pro rata)
Funding: includes salary while on secondment, research expenses up to £2,000/year
Note: currently funded by the Royal Society and Rolls-Royce plc
Opens in March 2020
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INTERNATIONAL FELLOWSHIPS: COMING TO THE UK & GOING ABROAD
Funder – Scheme BEAMS comments Deadlines
AACR-Cancer Research UK Transatlantic Fellowship
Support high-potential UK postdoctoral researchers to develop their independent career in the US, and vice versa.
Remit: Funder’s remit except clinical trials
Duration: 4 years
Funding: Cap £300K or $400K
Latest deadline:
July 2019 (Preliminary submission)
October 2019 (Final submission)
Leverhulme Trust - International Academic Fellowships
For established researchers to develop new knowledge, skills and ideas in one or more research centres outside the UK.
Remit: all subject areas except studies of disease, clinical practice or development of medical applications
Duration: 3 – 24 months
Latest deadline:
November 2019
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Funding: include travel, replacement and some research expenses - Cap: £45,000
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions – Individual Fellowship (European Fellowship)
For experienced researcher moving within Europe, for instance, to the UK.
Remit: all disciplines
Post-PhD limit: ≥ 4 years (of full-time research experience)
Duration:
Funding: includes allowance to cover living, travel, family costs and training
Note: The proposal is written jointly with your chosen host organisation
Latest deadline:
September 2019
Royal Society - FLAIR Fellowships For talented African ECRs to build an independent research career in a sub-Saharan African institution
Post-PhD limit: 2-8 years
Duration: 2 years
Funding: £150,000/year includes Salary, research expenses, overheads
Note: can apply if not in employment
Latest deadline:
May 2019
Royal Society - JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship For ECRs who wish to conduct research in Japan.
Remit: Funder’s remit
Post-PhD limit: ≤ 6 years
Duration: 1 - 2 years
Funding: include round-trip flight, monthly maintenance, settling-in allowance, insurance, research grant to apply for by the host
Note: Open to citizens of the UK or European Union. Applicants must have a research proposal agreed with a Japanese host scientist.
Opens in 2020
Royal Society - Newton International Fellowship For ECRs working outside the UK and who do not hold UK citizenship to conduct research in the UK
Remit: Funder’s remit
Post-PhD limit: ≤ 7 years full time postdoctoral experience
Duration: 2 years
Funding: includes subsistence (£24,000/year), consumables (10,000/year), and relocation expenses. In addition, a contribution equal to 50% of the total award to the UK host institution.
Opens in 2020
Other Fellowships Returners / Commercialisation / Industrial / Mobility
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Royal Society – Newton Advanced Fellowship For international permanent academics or researchers who hold a fixed-termed contract which span the duration of the project to develop the research strengths and capabilities of their research group through training, collaboration and reciprocal visits with a partner in the UK. [Collaborations should focus on a single project involving an overseas-based researcher (“the Applicant”) and a UK-based researcher (“the Co-applicant”)]
Remit: funder’s remit
Post-PhD limit: 18 years
Duration: 2 years
Funding: includes salary top up of £5,000 for the overseas-based researcher, research costs, training and travels - Cap: £37,000/year
Note: awards are currently available for scientists in China, in partnership with the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC).
Latest deadline:
November 2019
Wellcome Trust - Research Fellowships in Humanities and Social Science
Suitable for researcher wishing to move to the UK
See above
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APPENDIX: FUNDERS’ REMIT
Funder Remit
BBSRC – Biotechnology and Biological sciences Research Council
BBSRC funds research in: plants, microbes, animals (including humans), tools and technology underpinning biological research. They fund research from the level of molecules and cells, to tissues, whole organisms, populations and landscapes.
BBSRC has a set of Council-wide strategic priority areas that can be found here. These include, but are not limited to: bioenergy, data driven biology, food, new strategic approaches to industrial biotechnology and technology development for biosciences.
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Here how BBSRC contribute to cross-council programmes.
Cancer Research UK They fund Cancer related research on advancing the fundamental understanding of cancer or improving how cancer is diagnosed and/or treated.
Daphne Jackson Trust The UK's leading organisation dedicated to realising the potential of returners to research in the areas of STEM, social sciences and related disciplines following a career break.
EPSRC – Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
EPSRC remit covers engineering and the physical sciences: they fund research into chemistry, engineering, information and communications technologies, materials, mathematical sciences and physics. Though they do not have restrictions on application areas, the majority of research they support must be in engineering and the physical sciences. Here the list of the EPSRC Themes. EPSRC provides information about research and training grants supported by them through the Grants on the Web facility.
ERC – European Research Council The ERC's mission is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-driven frontier research across all fields, on the basis of scientific excellence.
ESRC - Economic and Social Research Council
ESRC is UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and social issues. The ESRC research topics include environment, health and wellbeing, international, public services, politics and governance. Here a list of the research areas that fall within ESRC's remit by subject (bold) and then by topic (bulleted).
ESRC welcome interdisciplinary proposals as they recognise that many of the most pressing research challenges are interdisciplinary in nature, both within the social sciences and between the social sciences and other areas of research. See below UKRI for more information about interdisciplinary proposals.
Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research
The Heilbronn Institute supports mathematics in the UK through Research Fellowships and sabbatical opportunities for mathematicians and data scientists, and through a programme of conferences, workshops and focused research activities.
Leverhulme Trust The Trust’s priority is to support investigations of a fundamental nature.
The Trust do not fund: 1) studies of disease, illness and disabilities in humans and animals, or research that is intended to inform clinical practice or the development of medical applications; 2) policy-driven research where the principal objective is to assemble an evidence base for immediate policy initiatives.
Proposals for the following are also ineligible for Leverhulme Trust support: research where advocacy is an explicit component; research aimed principally at an immediate commercial application and
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proposals in which the balance between assembling a data bank or database and the related subsequent research is heavily inclined to the former.
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions The Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions support researchers at all stages of their careers, regardless of age and nationality. Researchers working across all disciplines are eligible for funding. The MSCA also support cooperation between industry and academia and innovative training to enhance employability and career development.
NERC – Natural Environment Research Council
NERC's remit includes terrestrial, marine, freshwater, science-based archaeology, atmospheric and polar sciences, and Earth observation. NERC’s scientists study and monitor the physical, chemical and biological processes on which our planet and life itself depends.
They fund strategic research that addresses key societal challenges, helping business, government and society benefit from natural resources, build resilience to environmental hazards and manage environmental change.
NERC's discovery science helps understand how the Earth works, past, present and future. Whether pure, applied or policy-driven, discovery science addresses clearly-defined environmental science questions.
Rosetrees Trust Formed in 1987, Rosetrees is a private charity, supporting medical research. Rosetrees gives long term support to the best researchers to develop their ideas and achieve medical breakthroughs.
Royal Academy of Engineering The Academy runs a series of fellowships that support aspiring and current world-leading individuals who are delivering high-quality engineering research.
Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 was established in 1850 by Her Majesty Queen Victoria to organise the first world trade fair: The Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations. The Commission supports advanced study and research in science, engineering, the built environment and design.
Royal Society Research must be within the Society’s remit of natural sciences, including biological sciences, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics. For a full list, see their guidance page. The Society does not cover clinical medicine (such as patient orientated research and clinical trials), social sciences or humanities, other than when working in partnership with organisations. Applications for research in psychology may be made as long as they are based on the rigorous methods of experimental psychology and include appropriate statistical analysis of data.
SCI – Society of Industrial Chemistry &
The Ramsay Memorial Trust
SCI aims to promote links between chemistry related sciences and industry for the benefit of the public and to foster innovation (commercialisation of science via new products and processes). The Trust aim to promote and develop chemical research through empowering and encouraging postdoctoral researchers to undertake original and independent research through the award of a Fellowship.
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STFC – Science and Technology Facilities Council
The STFC Programme remit covers the following core subject areas: particle physics; astronomy; particle astrophysics; solar and planetary science; nuclear physics and accelerator science. STFC funds also research that seeks to transfer the skills, techniques and technologies developed within the core areas (as above) into other areas.
UKRI – UK Research and Innovation Council The UKRI includes: Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), BBSRC, EPSRC, ESRC, Medical Research Council (MRC), NERC, STFC, Research England and Innovate UK. UKRI support research across all fields. Information about applications across Research Council remits can be found here.
Urban Studies Foundation The Urban Studies Foundation provides significant grant funding and support to individuals and institutions engaged in the advancement of postgraduate academic urban research and education.
Wellcome Trust Wellcome Trust funds scientific research to improve the quality of health of everyone. This covers all aspects of science – from molecules and the cells vital to life, to the spread of diseases and vectors of disease around the world, to clinical and public health research. They also fund research in the humanities and social sciences that addresses any aspect of health.
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