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Find out about a range of fellowships offered by funding bodies, charities and institutions supporting Science careers at all levels below.
Further information is available from the funding database Research Professional.
BBSRC Discovery Fellowship
more...Aimed at researchers who want to conduct their own independent research within a host laboratory and have strong evidence of working toward this.
Cancer Research UK Career Development Fellowships
more...The Career Development Fellowship supports new group leaders who do not have a salaried independent position to establish their own independent research group.
Cancer Research UK Career Establishment Award
more...The Career Establishment Award supports new group leaders who have a salaried independent position to establish their own independent research group.
Cancer Research UK Clinician Science Fellowships
more...The Clinician Scientist Fellowship supports excellent individuals to develop a clinical academic research career through a period of postdoctoral training.
Daphne Jackson Fellowships
more...Daphne Jackson Fellowships offer STEM professionals the opportunity to return to a research career after a break of two or more years for a family, health or caring reason.
EPSRC Open Fellowships
more...These fellowships provide applicants with the flexibility and freedom to design a package that fits their career ambitions, research needs and personal development requirements.
European Research Council Advanced Grants
more...This scheme is for exceptional research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements who want long-term funding to pursue a ground-breaking, high-risk project.
European Research Council Consolidator Grants
more...This scheme is for excellent researchers with 7-12 years' post-doctoral experience who want to consolidate their independence by establishing a research team and continuing to develop a successful career in Europe.
European Research Council Starting Grants
more...Are you a talented early-career scientist who has already produced excellent supervised work, is ready to work independently and shows potential to be a research leader? The ERC Starting Grant could be for you.
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Research Fellowships
more...Early Career Fellowships aim to provide career development opportunities for those who are at a relatively early stage of their academic careers, but who have a proven record of research.
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships
more...These fellowships target researchers holding a PhD who wish to carry out their research activities abroad, acquire new skills and develop their careers.
MRC Fellowships
more...Information about fellowships funded by MRC, as well as fellowships co-funded by the MRC and prestigious royal colleges and medical charities.
NERC Independent Research Fellowships
more...The NERC fellowship scheme provides opportunities for outstanding early- career environmental scientists to devote their time to producing research of international importance, developing their research careers and research groups, developing into recognised science leaders.
Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowships
more...The RAEng Research Fellowships are designed to promote research excellence in engineering. They provide support for early career post- doctoral researchers and encourage them to become future research leaders in engineering.
Royal Society University Research Fellowships
more...This scheme is for outstanding scientists who are in the early stages of their research career and have the potential to become leaders in their field.
Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships
more...This scheme offers a recognised first step into an independent research career for outstanding scientists and engineers at an early stage of their research career who require a flexible working pattern due to personal circumstances, such as parenting or caring responsibilities or health issues.
Royal Society Newton International Fellowships
more...This scheme is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.
Royal Society Education Research Fellowship
more...This scheme is for academics in the UK researching physics and mathematics education who are at an early stage of their career and have the potential to become leaders in their field.
Wellcome Early-Career Awards
more...This scheme provides funding for early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity and whose research projects have the potential to deliver shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing.
Wellcome Career Development Awards
more...This scheme provides funding for mid-career researchers from any discipline who have the potential to be international research leaders, and whose work programmes will deliver significant shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health and wellbeing.