The Leverhulme Trust invites applications for its early-career fellowships. These enable early-career researchers to undertake a significant piece of publishable work and to advance to a more permanent academic position. The research may be in any subject area, with the exception of studies of disease, illness and disabilities in humans and animals, and research that is intended to inform clinical practice and the development of medical applications. Fellowships may be held at universities or other institutions of higher education in the UK. Applicants must not yet have held a full-time permanent academic post at a UK university or comparable UK institution. Candidates must be within four years of their doctoral thesis submission or have equivalent research experience by the time they take up the fellowship. They must also either hold a degree from a UK HEI at the time of taking up the fellowship or hold an academic position, such as a fixed-term lectureship or fellowship, in the UK. Approximately 100 fellowships are available. Each fellowship provides up to £50,000 in the first year to cover 100 per cent of total salary costs, and up to £25,000 per year to cover 50 per cent of the fellow’s total salary costs in years two and three, up to £6,000 a year towards research expenses, up to £150 a day for UK and overseas subsistence and funding for capital items up to £1,000 per item. Fellowships are tenable for three years full time, but the trust may consider part time requests. The host institution must contribute the remaining 50 per cent of salary costs for the fellow.

Website: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career-fellowships