Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2024
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 contributing 50% of each Fellow’s total salary up to a maximum of £26,000 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.
For 2024 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 institution, 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 hold a doctorate by the time they take up the Fellowship. Those who are or have been registered for a doctorate may apply only if they have submitted their viva voce examination by 4pm on the closing date of 22 February 20241. Applicants must be within 4 years of their PhD examination– hence those who formally submitted their doctoral thesis for viva voce examination before 23 February 2020 are not eligible unless they have since had a career break (maternity leave, family commitments, illness, or other exceptional circumstances).
For full eligibility details please refer to Leverhulme Trust’s website. Applicants should make sure they are eligible to apply to this scheme prior to an application being made to the School.
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.
Following approval from HaSS Faculty Steering Group, it has been agreed that each School within HaSS will be able to nominate 3 applications for the 2024 call. Should a School not require its full allocation, there would be the opportunity to allocate that space to any reserve candidates from other Schools, provided the application is of high quality (subject to the Dean of Research and Innovation’s approval).
Anyone interested in applying should notify nubs.research@ncl.ac.uk by Monday 4th December 2023. The call opens 1st January 2024, with a closing date of 22nd February 2024.