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- The scheme offers you the opportunity to:
build an independent research career
focus on your own research, with a limit on administrative and teaching duties
hold your fellowship on a part-time basis to suit personal circumstances
This scheme is highly flexible to accommodate for part-time working, sabbaticals and secondments. There is also provision for maternity, paternity, adoptive or extended sick leave (PDF). Research must be within the Royal Society鈥檚 remit of natural sciences, which includes but is not limited to biological research, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics. For a full list, please see the breakdown of subject groups and areas supported by the Royal Society.
Researchers addressing a direct biomedical research question should apply for a Sir Henry Dale Fellowship. Those applying from Ireland (ROI) are funded by Science Foundation Ireland and will need to read the eligibility requirements in the specific scheme notes.
You can apply for this scheme if you:
have between three to eight years of research experience since your PhD by the closing date of the round. Career breaks are taken into account, please refer to the scheme notes for further detail
do not hold a permanent post in a university or not for profit research organisation
do not hold, or have not previously held, an equivalent fellowship that provides an opportunity to establish an independent research group and therefore independent researcher status. Funding is initially provided for five years with the opportunity to apply for an extension of an additional three years.
The scheme provides:
Research Fellows salary: 80% of the basic salary costs up to 拢40,681.46 in the first year, estates costs and indirect costs
Research expenses:
- Contribution to research expenses of 拢13,000 in year one and 拢11,000 per year thereafter
- Additional research expenses of up to 拢40,000 in 2020/21 will also be awarded
Research assistance:
- Contribution to a postdoctoral research assistant and/or a four-year PhD studentship
- Equipment costs
- Support for public engagement activities
- Funding for training and professional development for the Research Fellow and any staff or students supported by the grant