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Department of Physics

Physics Fellowships - Expression of Interest

The Department of Physics at the University of Warwick welcomes candidates interested in applying for externally funded fellowship opportunities. To apply with us as your host institute, please submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) and a CV. Please see the guidance below for details on how to complete the EOI and CV, as well as downloadable templates.

All applicants must secure an internal mentor to support their application(s).

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Application Templates and Guidance

For fellowship opportunities such as, but not limited to, the STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship, RS University Research Fellowship, ERC Starting or Consolidator Grant, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships, RS Newton Fellowships, Royal Commission Exhibition of 1851 Fellowship and/or the Branco Weiss Fellowship, please use the generic narrative CV and EOI templates provided. For UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship applications, please see the bespoke templates at the bottom of this page.

EOIs can be submitted at any time unless otherwise specified; please see details for all internal deadlines here.

We highlight the upcoming internal deadlines of 4th July 2025 ERF, URF, and ERC Starting Grants - note that this has been put back

For these, the applicant's mentor must either commit to join the selection panel or nominate an agreed, alternate staff member; see details on the selection process below.

We ask that applicants please prefix filenames with their full name to aid organisation.

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We especially encourage applications from individuals from under-represented backgrounds. We are committed to individuals with care giving duties and can offer flexible working hours. Applications for a part-time fellowships are welcome.

Warwick is committed to building an organisation of mutual respect and dignity, promoting a welcoming, diverse, and inclusive working and learning environment. We recognise that everyone is different in a variety of visible and non-visible ways, and that those differences are to be recognised, respected, and valued. Where possible, we go beyond legislation to provide a place where everyone can thrive, supporting all staff to achieve their full potential. We aspire to remove economic, social, and cultural barriers that may otherwise prevent people from succeeding.

We therefore welcome and encourage applications from all communities regardless of culture, background, age, disability, sex/gender, gender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion/belief, or sexual or romantic orientation. To find out more about our social inclusion work at Warwick visit our webpage here.

The University currently holds a Race Equality Charter Bronze Award, Athena Swan Sliver Award and a Disability Smart Bronze Award. The University of Warwick is also one of the six founder institutions of the EUTOPIA European University Alliance.

The Physics Department are proud of their diverse community of staff, students, and visitors, and are committed to maintaining an excellent record in teaching and research by ensuring that there is equality of opportunity for all, fostered in an environment of mutual respect and dignity.The Physics Department holds an Athena SWAN Silver award, a national initiative to promote gender equality for all staff and students. The Physics Department is also a Juno Champion, which is an award from the Institute of Physics to recognise our efforts to address the under-representation of women in university physics and to encourage better practice for people of all genders. Further information can be found at www.warwick.ac.uk/physics/staff/working/.

Selection Process

Selection is undertaken by a panel composed of the applicants mentors. This ensures proportional and sufficient representation of expertise in the panel, spreads the diversity of the panel members out, ensures an equal number of conflicts of interest, and that the mentor fully supports the applicant.

Panel members read and rank applications across clusters, aiming to ensure an equitable treatment and consistent process across clusters. This also mimics the composition of many grant panels and helps to combat internal biases. Feedback will be provided to candidates on the readability of their proposals. Requiring mentors to be panel members also ensures appropriate specialist expertise on the panel.

Each staff member can only mentor one application.

For URF/ERC, where there is no strict limit on numbers, the panel will serve as a ‘light touch' review. It will ensure there are no red flags and will provide feedback to the candidates. As long as there is a strong backing from each cluster and RIS views the candidates as having a reasonable chance, there will be no down selection.

For the ERF, this panel will serve as the only panel to down select candidates, but the panel will be conscious of the distribution of research area. Candidates need a mentor (and cluster approval) and that their mentors must ensure an appropriate staff member is on the panel for each candidate and that staff members that want to mentor more than two candidates should communicate with RIS and confirm with Heather Cegla and Steve Dixon, prior to the candidate submitting their EOI. ERF Panel members must also commit to being available to participate in a selection panel and communicate outcomes prior to July 15th at the latest.

Bespoke templates

Ernest Rutherford STFC Fellowship (ERF) - internal selection deadline is 4th July 2025. Candidate will need to provide the EOI at the top of the page and a CV & Track Record.

For your information only at this stage - the (ERF) template is below - but please do not submit the template below for the internal sift - it is very similar to the standard EOI above. As as some candidates have already started using the standard EOI, above for the ERF, we we will use that for the internal sift. The forms are very similar but different, and it's fair and best if all candidates use the same template - please use the EOI template at the top of the page.

For the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF), please use the dedicated narrative CV and EOI templates provided. Internal selection deadline is 25 February 2025. Please use Calibri font size 11 for the EOI and the CV & Track Record.