Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2022 HaSS Faculty: Internal Selection Process

Each year the Leverhulme Trust holds a competition to award Early Career Fellowships to researchers within 4 years of PhD examination, to enable them to undertake a significant piece of publishable work. Fellowships are tenable for 3 years on a full time basis, with Leverhulme normally contributing 50% of each Fellow’s total salary up to a maximum of £25,000 per annum, with the host institution expected to support the remaining 50% of the salary. Leverhulme also contribute an additional £6,000 per annum of research expenses if requested.

Once again, in 2022, Leverhulme Trust will be committing additional funding to support an altered funding model. This altered funding model will show an increase in their contribution to the Fellow’s salary and reducing the host institutions commitment:

Year 1: Leverhulme will contribute 100% of the Fellow’s salary (up to a maximum of £50,000)
Year 2 and 3: Leverhulme will contribute 50% of the Fellow’s salary (up to a maximum of £25,000), with the balance to be paid by the host institution.

For 2022 Leverhulme will be awarding approximately 145 fellowships. Previous success rates for the scheme are usually within the 6% to 8% range, which has been maintained through Leverhulme investing further funds into this scheme.

Eligibility: Applicants must not yet have held a full-time permanent academic post in a UK university or comparable UK institutions, nor may Fellows hold such a post concurrently with the Early Career Fellowship. The Trust will consider applications from candidates whose permanent post does not include any research. Applicants who have existing funding in place for a duration equivalent to or greater than the duration of the Early Career Fellowship should not apply. Applicants must be within 4 years of their PhD examination (see footnote below for exception) – hence those who formally submitted their doctoral thesis for viva voce examination before 24 February 2018 are not eligible unless they have since had a career break (maternity leave, family commitments, illness, or other exceptional circumstances).

Topics and fields of study: Applications will be considered in all subject areas except: studies of disease, illness and disabilities in humans and animals; research that is intended to inform clinical practice or the development of medical applications.

Further information can be found here.