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2025 BBSRC Fellowships scheme

Apply for funding to carry out independent research within a host laboratory and gain leadership skills.

You are not eligible to apply if you hold or have held any post or position at lecturer level (or equivalent). You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for BBSRC funding.

Mathematical sciences open and open plus fellowship

These are personal, career development focused awards for the mathematical sciences.

You must have either:

  • a PhD and some years of additional research experience
  • more than four years’ experience in a relevant field by the start of your fellowship

We have postdoctoral fellowships for earlier career researchers.

Future Leaders Fellowships: round 10

Apply for funding to support ambitious research and innovation across UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)’s remit. You must be an early career researcher or innovator who is either:

  • looking to establish or transition to independence
  • developing your own original and ambitious plans within a commercial setting

LUCIA-Local Government Association (LGA) ECR fellowship programme

Apply for funding to connect researchers and local, regional and national government representatives, and conduct research into equitable, cross-sector partnership building, as a LUCIA-LGA early career fellow.

You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for AHRC funding.

Postdoctoral clinical research training fellowship

Apply for funding to reacquire research skills.

Your research can focus on any area of Medical Research Council (MRC)’s remit to improve human health.

You must:

  • be a registered healthcare professional
  • be a PhD graduate working outside of research, usually five or more years ago
  • show plans to pursue a research career

Clinician scientist fellowship

Apply for support to become an independent researcher in a medical research field.

Your research can focus on any area of Medical Research Council’s (MRC) remit to improve human health.

You must:

  • be a registered healthcare professional
  • have a PhD or equivalent
  • show evidence of career development

Predoctoral clinical research training fellowship

Apply for funding to undertake a PhD.

Your research can focus on any area of Medical Research Council (MRC)’s remit to improve human health.

You must:

  • be a registered healthcare professional
  • be at an appropriate point in your training to undertake a PhD
  • show plans to pursue a research career

Pre-announcement: UKRI Metascience AI early career fellowships

The UK Metascience Unit will fund a cohort of early career fellows to build our understanding of how the growing adoption of AI is changing the research landscape, including what metascientific, ethical, epistemic, and socioeconomic questions this raises, and how governments, industry, and funding organisations should respond.

NERC Independent Research Fellowship 2024

Apply for funding to further your career through an independent research fellowship.

You must:

  • be an early career researcher
  • hold a PhD qualification or expect to submit your thesis before the fellowship interview
  • be based at a UK research organisation eligible for NERC funding

International Fellowships for PhD and Early Career Researchers 2025

Apply to undertake a funded fellowship at an international cultural institution.

You must be either:

  • a PhD student currently funded by AHRC (or ESRC for Library of Congress only)
  • an early career researcher based at a UK research organisation eligible for AHRC funding

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