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Our fellowship opportunities – UKRI Our fellowship opportunities Fellowships are prestigious funding awards for individuals to make challenging transitions in their research careers or to develop specific research capabilities. They give you the freedom to focus on a research or innovation project that requires at least 12 months of your time (between 0. 5 and 1 full-time equivalent).
They pay all or part of your salary, for the length of your fellowship, and some cover part or all of your research costs. Fellowships are offered either directly by UKRI and its research councils, or by research organisations with UKRI funding. You will need to find a ‘host organisation’ to support your application before you can apply.
This is the university, research organisation or business where you’ll be based. UKRI’s fellowship opportunities are available through the UKRI funding service. You can find detailed information, including if you’re eligible for the fellowship and how to apply.
New opportunities are added throughout the year. You can also browse the following list, which includes many but not all of the ongoing fellowships currently funded by us. They are grouped according to fellowship type , and ordered by research council within each type.
Type 1: Career transition fellowships For researchers establishing independence or leadership, or combining their professional activities with completing a doctorate. Daphne Jackson fellowship Funding for those returning to a career after a break of two or more years taken for family, health or caring reasons. They are flexible and offer at least 100 hours of training each year.
Funding is usually for three years part-time. Early independence: Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) fellowship scheme These are for excellent researchers who want to become future leaders and conduct their own research at a host laboratory. They must show evidence of their progress towards these goals.
As well as funding, the scheme offers mentoring, fellowship events and training courses. Early independence: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Early Independence Fellowships These fellowships enable early career researchers who have had postdoctoral experience and show early evidence of capability to be a leading and active researcher to further their academic career.
These fellowships are only open in specific research areas within EPSRC’s remit. You must have either a PhD with additional postdoctoral experience or equivalent in a relevant field by the start of your fellowship. You can apply for up to five years full-time or ten years part time if you work part time.
Award frequency: twice a year. Early independence: Ernest Rutherford fellowships Funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC). Ernest Rutherford Fellowships enable early career researchers with clear leadership potential to establish a strong, independent research programme.
They help attract outstanding overseas researchers to the UK and encourage talented researchers in UK universities to remain in the country. You must have a PhD or relevant experience and cannot hold an academic position or another fellowship that funds your working time. Funding will cover the fellow’s salary and project costs for five years.
Early independence: Medical Research Council (MRC) career development fellowships These help postdoctoral researchers make the transition to independent researcher. Funding will cover the researcher’s salary and project costs for up to five years. You must have a PhD or equivalent.
You must show evidence of career progression and clear plans for developing independence and leadership in your area of research. Award frequency: twice a year. Early independence: MRC clinician scientist fellowships These help healthcare professionals become independent researchers in a medical research field.
Funding will cover the researcher’s salary and project costs for up to five years. You must be a registered healthcare professional, have a PhD or equivalent and show clear plans for developing as a leader in your field. Award frequency: three times a year.
Early independence: Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) independent research fellowships These support early career researchers who want to conduct their own environmental research within an eligible host organisation. You must have a PhD or significant relevant research experience combined with clear evidence of leadership potential. Funding will cover the fellow’s salary and project costs for five years.
Future Leaders Fellowships Long-term support to enable fellows to tackle ambitious programmes or multidisciplinary questions, and new or emerging research and innovation areas and partnerships. Fellows can be based in universities, businesses or other eligible independent research organisations. You must be an early career researcher or innovator who has a PhD or can demonstrate equivalent research or innovation experience or training.
Future Leaders Fellowships Professional doctorate: clinical research training fellowship Funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC). This is for registered healthcare professionals without a PhD to get one to pursue a research career. Funding will cover the fellow’s salary and project costs for three years.
Award frequency: three times a year Type 2: Capacity building and discipline transition fellowships Supporting researchers changing discipline or developing skills after their doctorate or in a priority research area. Capacity building: clinical research training fellowship Funded by MRC. Funding for registered healthcare professionals who’ve been working outside of research to reacquire research skills.
You must also have a PhD and been away from research for five or more years. The fellowship funds salary and project costs for three years. Award frequency: three times per year.
Search for opportunities for Capacity building: clinical research training fellowships . Type 3: Sector transition Supporting the transfer of knowledge or skills across sectors to enable new approaches Policy fellowships give researchers with a PhD or equivalent experience the opportunity to work on research related to a current policy challenge, while embedded within a UK or devolved government department.
You must be an academic who holds a PhD or equivalent research experience and have relevant subject matter or methodological expertise. You must be based at an eligible organisation. Fellowships are for 18 months.
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The Frontier AI Benchmarking Datasets Grant Programme is a grant from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) / Innovate UK that funds the creation, curation, annotation, and exploitation of FAIR-compliant datasets and benchmarks to support AI industry growth. A total of up to £4.5 million is available. The competition is open to collaborations only; the lead applicant must be a UK-registered business or research and technology organization (RTO), and each consortium must include at least one UK-registered SME claiming grant funding. Eligible sectors include public sector, nonprofit, and private sector organizations. The application deadline is May 27, 2026.
Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Education & Human Resources (IUSE: EHR) Program is sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF). This program promotes novel, creative, and transformative approaches to generating and using new knowledge about STEM teaching and learning to improve STEM education for undergraduate students. It supports projects that bring recent advances in STEM knowledge into undergraduate education, adapt, improve, and incorporate evidence-based practices, and lay the groundwork for institutional improvement in STEM education. Professional development for instructors to ensure adoption of new and effective pedagogical techniques is a potential topic of interest.
The National Leadership Grants for Libraries Program (NLG-L) supports projects that address critical needs of the library and archives fields and have the potential to advance practice and strengthen library and archival services for the American public. Successful proposals will generate results such as new models, tools, research findings, services, practices, and/or alliances that can be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend and leverage the benefits of federal investment. Applications to IMLS should both advance knowledge and understanding and ensure that the federal investment made generates benefits to society. Specifically, the goals for this program are to generate projects of far-reaching impact that: • Build the workforce and institutional capacity for managing the national information infrastructure and serving the information and education needs of the public. • Build the capacity of libraries and archives to lead and contribute to efforts that improve community well-being and strengthen civic engagement. • Improve the ability of libraries and archives to provide broad access to and use of information and collections with emphasis on collaboration to avoid duplication and maximize reach. • Strengthen the ability of libraries to provide services to affected communities in the event of an emergency or disaster. • Strengthen the ability of libraries, archives, and museums to work collaboratively for the benefit of the communities they serve. Throughout its work, IMLS places importance on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This may be reflected in an IMLS-funded project in a wide range of ways, including efforts to serve individuals of diverse geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds; individuals with disabilities; individuals with limited functional literacy or information skills; individuals having difficulty using a library or museum; and underserved urban and rural communities, including children from families with incomes below the poverty line. Application Process: The application process for the NLG-L program has two phases; applicants must begin by applying for Phase I. For Phase I, all applicants must submit Preliminary Proposals by the September 20th deadline listed for this Notice of Funding Opportunity. For Phase II, only selected applicants will be invited to submit Full Proposals, and only those Invited Full Proposals will be considered for funding. Invited Full Proposals will be due March 20, 2024. Funding Opportunity Number: NLG-LIBRARIES-FY24. Assistance Listing: 45.312. Funding Instrument: G. Category: AR,HU. Award Amount: $50K – $1M per award.
The California Department of Education (CDE) Early Education Division is making approximately .7 million available to expand California State Preschool Program (CSPP) services statewide, appropriated under the 2021 Budget Act. Eligible applicants are local educational agencies (LEAs), including school districts, county offices of education, community college districts, and direct-funded charter schools—both current CSPP contractors and new applicants. Funding supports full-day/full-year or part-day/part-year preschool services for income-eligible children beginning in FY 2024–25. Awards are allocated by county based on Local Planning Council priority areas and application scores, with redistribution provisions if county allocations are underutilized.