Future Leaders Fellowships Round 10: Newcastle University Selection and Support Exercise
A reminder that Newcastle University’s Selection and Support Exercise for Round 10 of the UKRI Future Leader Fellowships is now open.
Details of the Scheme are at: Pre-announcement: Future Leaders Fellowships: round 10 – UKRI
The scheme is open to early career researchers and innovators from across business, universities, and other organisations, and welcomes applicants from around the world. Awards are for an ambitious programme of research and to support career development for up to four years, with the ability to extend for a further three years, to focus and continue your development. There is no lower or upper limit on the funding that can be requested. UKRI wants to fund the best fellows no matter what their background. The Future Leaders Fellowships scheme has been developed with unprecedented levels of flexibility to support applicants from a wide range of experiences, disciplines and sectors. Along with the web-link above, please see our briefing note, attached, for some guidance.
UKRI believes “fostering inclusion is essential for a high-performing research and innovation (R&I) system. As the UK’s largest public funder of research and innovation we have a responsibility to ensure the health of the system as a whole, now and in the future. We need a diversity of people and ideas to achieve this”. In line with this, and with Newcastle University’s own values, no applicant will be disadvantaged or receive less favourable treatment because of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation in our internal competition.
For those of you who were unable to attend the information session, please contact beth.davidson@newcastle.ac.uk who will be happy to share the recording.
Newcastle University is limited by the funder in the number of applications that we can make to this competition. We will therefore be holding a selection and support process. This is for candidates currently at Newcastle and those who are not but wish to apply to hold a future leader fellowship here.
Application guidance and the timeline and application process for the internal selection and support is given in 2 documents attached.