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Fellowships
The Institute’s Research Committee invites expressions of interest (EOI) for the following calls.
Before you begin your application:
Read the funders' call guidance carefully.
It is your responsibility to ensure that you are eligible to apply. Contact the funder to discuss your eligibility if required and submit the decision with your EoI.
Ensure you can deliver your research objectives within the costs and remit of the call.
You must seek support from a potential mentor within the Institute before applying. Our academics are heavily involved in teaching and must have the capacity to support individuals.
Some calls have now closed but we are assuming these calls will open at the same time in following years. Please note that call guidance may vary year on year. For all inquiries regarding the application process, please contact our Finance and Research Officer, Sudershana Dave.
Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorships
Allows eminent senior professors from overseas, to bring genuinely novel expertise and enhance the skills and knowledge of academic staff and students in an underrepresented area in the UK.
EOI deadlines: Friday 28 February 2025 and Friday 27 June 2025
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships
Aimed at early career researchers with a research record but who have not yet held a full-time permanent academic post to undertake a significant piece of publishable work.
EOI Deadline: Friday 5 September 2025
Wellcome Trust Early-Career Awards
Aimed at early-career researchers who are ready to develop their research identity through innovative projects, delivering shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing. By the end of the award, researchers will be ready to lead their own independent research programme.
EOI deadlines: Friday 28 February 2025, Friday 27 June 2025 and Friday 5 September 2025
The British Academy Global Professorships
Aimed at established researchers overseas to undertake high-risk, curiosity-driven research in the humanities and social sciences in a UK research institution. The scheme looks for cutting-edge projects that are expected to add significant value to the UK host institution and vice versa, leading to novel and innovative collaborations.
EOI deadline: Friday 27 June 2025
The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
Aimed at early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to pursue an independent research project, towards the completion of a significant piece of publishable research.
EOI deadline: Friday 27 June 2025
The British Academy International Fellowships
Aimed at early career researchers to make a first step towards developing an independent research career through gaining experience across international borders.
EOI Deadline: Friday 5 September 2025
The British Academy Visiting Fellowships
Enables academics from any country overseas to be based at a UK higher education or other research institution of their choice for up to six months and develop collaborative projects with UK colleagues.
EOI deadline: Friday 27 June 2025
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships
1) European Postdoctoral Fellowships are open to researchers of any nationality who wish to engage in projects by either coming to EU Member States/Horizon Europe Associated Countries (the UK is a Horizon Europe Associated Country) from any country in the world or, moving within the EU/Horizon Europe Associated Countries.
2) Global Postdoctoral Fellowships are open to European nationals or long-term residents who wish to engage in projects with organisations outside EU Member States and Horizon Europe Associated Countries. These fellowships require an outgoing phase of 12-24 months in a non-associated Third Country and a mandatory 12-month return phase to a host organisation based in an EU Member State or Horizon Europe Associated Country.
EOI deadline: Friday 27 June 2025
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships
Aimed at those in the immediate postdoctoral stage of their career to provide the opportunity to consolidate their PhD through developing publications, networks, research and professional skills. The proposal can be from a single discipline or a combination of disciplines, but social sciences must make up at least 50% of your fellowship activities.
EOI Deadline: Friday 28 February 2025