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Other Fellowship Schemes
These fellowship schemes provide researchers with flexibility or allow them to come back to academia following a career break. Another scheme promotes relocation within the UK.
Fellowships open to overseas researchers to move to the UK are also listed in this section. | Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
The Royal Society is the independent scientific academy of the UK dedicated to promoting excellence in science.
The Dorothy Hodgkin fellowship offers a recognised first step into an independent research career for excellent scientists and engineers for whom career flexibility is essential. It is aimed at enabling scientists and engineers to return to their professions following a career break owing to family commitments. The Fellow re-trains in the context of a guided research project, carried out on a flexible, part-time basis at a convenient university. Applicants must have no more than 4 years' postdoctoral research experience.
Each fellowship offers the possibility of holding appointments on a part-time basis or converting from full-time to part-time and back again to help match work and other commitments (family responsibilities, health issues, etc).
The scheme also provides the possibility of claiming some funds for family support where these can be justified on scientific grounds (the cost of child care during a conference or collaborative visit abroad etc), along with the option of participating in a mentor scheme and of networking with other Dorothy Hodgkin Fellows.
Apply through e-Gap electronic system; provide 2 referees and a list of publications (upload 2 most significant); outline of the proposed project to be no longer than 8500 characters in total; justify the need for flexible support.
2005 success rate 9%
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| Daphne Jackson Memorial Trust FellowshipsThese are 2-year awards, designed to facilitate the return to research of able engineers and scientists who have taken a career break for family or other reasons. The fellowships allow flexible working arrangements: most current awards are on a part-time basis.
The research project has to be relevant to present day needs in industry and academia. The applicant is expected to take the initiative in finding a suitable host university or research laboratory, and a supervisor who will accept responsibility for guiding the Fellow's research and re-training.
The project should be seen as an opportunity to acquire professional skills and knowledge that will make the Fellow more employable in the future. Fellows must undertake some identified retraining. This can involve updating in a previously familiar field or initiation into a new field. The Training programme is expected to take about 100 hours per year.
No pro-forma application form but follow guidelines to be found on website (under fellowship tab)
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| Royal Society UK Relocation FellowshipThese postdoctoral fellowships aim to promote career mobility in science, engineering and technology within the UK. They help researchers who wish to move to follow a partner who has changed place of work and moved a significant distance within the UK. The relocating partner does not have to be a scientific researcher. Salary and research expenses will be provided (for up to one year) in order for the applicants to relocate and continue their research career with the minimum of disruption.
Applicants must have recently moved, or be planning to move, to follow a partner who has changed place of work and moved a significant distance. The applicant must be relocating to a university or not-for-profit research organisation within the UK. The applicant should be a postdoctoral researcher with a permanent post, or a fixed term contract of at least 3 years, at a university or not-for profit research institute. The researcher must not hold a transferable fellowship. Researchers returning to scientific research after a career break are also eligible. European Economic Area (EEA) citizens who are residing in the UK are eligible.
Apply through the e-Gap elctronic system. Outline of the project to be no longer than 8500 characters or 3 A4 PDF pages; provide details for 2 referees, a list of publications (upload 2 most significant) along with the details of the partners' relocation.
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| British Academy Corresponding FellowshipThe British Academy, established by Royal Charter in 1902, is the national academy for the humanities and the social sciences. It is an independent, self-governing fellowship of more than 800 scholars, elected for distinction and achievement in one or more branches of the academic disciplines that make up the humanities and social sciences.
The Corresponding fellowship is designed for scholars habitually resident outside the UK who have attained high international standing in the humanities and social sciences. Applicants must demonstrate academic distinction as reflected in scholarly research activity and publication.
Candidates for election are initially proposed by existing Fellows in response to an annual invitation to put forward names for consideration, in writing, on a standard form setting out the principal claims to election and the key published works; also by Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities in the UK and by the heads of related research organisations such as national museums, galleries, libraries and archives, who are invited once in every four years to make nominations.
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| Marie Curie Incoming International FellowshipIncoming International Fellowships target experienced researchers from outside the EU and Associated States who want to move to Europe to take part in research training.
Fellows must have at least four years' postgraduate experience, or hold a PhD and must agree a work programme with a research organisation in an EU or candidate country before applying.
The applicant applies to the Commission jointly with the host institution. The Commission selects the most suitable applicant and signs a contract with the host. The fellow agrees and signs a contract with the host organisation for a stay of between one and two years.
There is a possibility of a reintegration phase for researchers from developing countries and emerging and transition economies.
Application details: provide details for 3 referees. Application forms will be available on the website at the next call for proposals.
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| Royal Society Incoming Fellowships from USA/CanadaThe Royal Society USA/Canada Research Fellowships programme is designed to promote scientific collaboration between centres of excellence in the UK and North America.
The research undertaken must be on a subject within the natural sciences, including: physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, engineering science, agricultural and medical research. Awards are not granted in the areas of the social sciences or clinical medical research.
Applicants must be of postdoctoral or equivalent status at the time the award is taken up. Scientists in the final year of their PhD can submit an application.
Applicants must be US citizens based in the USA, or Canadian Nationals based in Canada. UK hosts must be British/ EU citizens resident in the UK. Candidates for the fellowship programme should identify and contact a UK host scientist who is willing to submit an application on their behalf; substantial contact between host and applicant prior to the application is essential. This contact should lead to a clearly defined and mutually-beneficial research proposal. The perid of the fellowship can vary from 1 to 3 years.
Application to be made online using e-Gap electronic system; provide details for 2 referees; contact international.fellowships.royalsoc.ac.uk to register interest and obtain application form.
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| Royal Society Incoming Fellowships to the UK from AsiaThe Royal Society's Incoming Fellowships Programme aims to foster science and technology links between the UK and the following countries: China, India, Japan, South Korea and South East Asia (Brunei, Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam). Visits will be funded for a perid of six months minimum to 12 months maximum.
The research undertaken must be on a subject within the natural sciences, including: physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering science, agricultural and medical research, the scientific aspects of archaeology, geography, experimental psychology and the history of science. This excludes social sciences or clinical medical research.
All applications must be completed online by the UK host scientist on behalf of overseas candidates. The host must be a British/ EU citizen resident in the UK. Non-UK/EU citizens must have held a permanent position at a UK institute for three years minimum to act as a host.
Fellowship candidates must be nationals of the country from which they are applying and should be resident and working in the country of nationality. Priority may be given to applicants with less experience of having worked abroad. Applicants currently in the UK are not eligible to apply. All applicants must be competent in oral and written English. Applicants and their overseas candidates must be of postdoctoral or equivalent status.
Application to be made online using e-Gap electronic system; provide details for 2 referees; contact international.fellowships.royalsoc.ac.uk to register interest and obtain application form.
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| Wellcome Trust Career Re-entry FellowshipThe Wellcome Trust is an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health. The Career Re-entry Fellowship is designed to give postdoctoral scientists who have had a recent break of at least two years the opportunity to return to high-quality research, with the potential for refresher or further training.
Candidates will havea relevant connection to the European Economic Area (EEA)and will normally have had a minimum period of two years' post-doctoral research experience prior to their career break, and have had a career break of at least two years in duration.
Candidates will need to submit a preliminary application form in hard copy (including 2 A4 pages for proposed research; letter of support from sponsor and mentor; outline on reasons for career break); full applications will then be invited; interviews will follow.
Funding will cover 2 to 4 years' support; salary; research expenses.
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