UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships support applicants from UK and abroad, as well as from diverse career paths, including those returning from a career break. The ambitious research or innovation programme across UKRI’s remit can last for up to seven years, with a mid-point review. The scheme requires commitment of a tapered salary from year 3 and of providing an open-ended UK based independent research and/or innovation position, to be taken up during or upon the completion of the fellowship (in line with organisational employment policies and practices). There is no minimum or maximum award value. 

 The NIHR Research Professorships scheme is an annual scheme which aims to fund health, public health and social care researchers and methodologists with outstanding research records. The scheme provides 5-year awards that cover applicants’ salary at professorial-level and a package of costs including research support and overheads. There are two types of professorships available: 

1.      Research Professorships (RP) – Where the applicant should work in partnership with an NHS organisation, or other providers of health, public health and/or care services in the UK.

2.      Global Research Professorships (GRP) - Applicants should be expert in translation of research for improved health and welfare of people in low-and-middle-income-countries (LMICs) on the OECD DAC list. 

ESRC centres are major ESRC strategic investments, usually funded at £2.5 – £10 million over five years. In addition to taking forward an ambitious research agenda and making significant economic and/or societal impact, they add value by increasing research infrastructure, building capacity, encouraging interdisciplinary working in social science and beyond, and enabling research collaboration in the UK and internationally. Research Centre funding is aimed at experienced research leaders who require longer-term or extended support for research groups, inter-institutional research networks, programmes of research, medium to large surveys, other infrastructure or methodological developments, or any related larger-scale projects. 

NERC Pushing the Frontiers scheme funds researchers to pursue ambitious, high-reward science. It welcomes multi and interdisciplinary research, designed, supported and delivered in partnership with other research funders and research users. However, the research must sit predominantly within NERC’s remit.

BA Global Professorships are for established mid-career and senior candidates currently based outside the UK to undertake high-risk, curiosity driven research in a UK research institution. This scheme will support academics that are proposing ambitious, beyonf the state-of-the-art applications that break new ground and add significant value to the UK host institutions and vice-versa.

The demand management process for the this call is now open. Please click HERE for further information on how to apply. 

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships are intended for 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. Fellowships are tenable for 3 years on a full-time basis and require a match-funding commitment on the side of the host institution.

Leverhulme Trust International Professorships are open to professiorial candidates and excellent research leaders of any nationality currently working outside the UK to fill a strategically important permanent position. This scheme will support academics conducting research of outstanding originality and quality and contributing significantly to the university's strategic aims and objectives.

Philip Leverhulme Prizes recognise the achievement of outstanding researchers whose work has already attracted international recognition and whose future career is exceptionally promising. Every year the prize scheme makes up to thirty awards of £100,000, across a range of academic disciplines. Institutions may only submit up to three nominations per subject area.  The internal demand management process for this call is now open and further details are available on our external research funding webpage. 

Leverhulme Research Leadership Awards support talented scholars who have successfully launched a university career but who need to build a research team of sufficient scale to tackle a distinctive research problem. To be eligible, applicants must, at the time of applying a) have had at least 2 years full-time or equivalent experience in a research and/or teaching post in a university after the date of their PhD award and b) have a contract with a university in the UK that extends beyond the end of the grant award (which can be 4 or 5 years). The awards are for up to £1 million, for staff salaries and associated costs.

Leverhulme Research Centres are expected to not only conduct research of outstanding originality but also aspire to achieve a significant step-change in scholarship. The Trust’s aim is to encourage new approaches that may establish or reshape a field of study and so transform our understanding of a significant contemporary topic. The choice of research topic is left open, with the exclusion of studies of disease, illness and disabilities in humans and animals, or research that is intended to inform clinical practice or the development of medical applications. £10 million is available for 10 years, with an appropriate mid-grant review.