Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship 2025
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 2025 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. For full eligibility details please refer to Leverhulme Trust’s website.
We welcome expressions of interest from candidates at Newcastle University and externally – this includes doctoral candidates, providing they meet the eligibility criteria outlined on the website above.
The selection process for applicants is as follows:
- Applicants need to identify and contact potential mentors in NUBS (staff profiles and email addresses are available here)
- Applicants will need to submit the following to nubs.research@ncl.ac.uk by 25th November 2024
- Two page project proposal
- CV (2 pages maximum)
- Short statement of support from their mentor (2-3 paragraphs maximum)