Fellowship opportunities

Fellowship name

Eligibility

Duration of Fellowship

Deadline

UKRI - Future Leaders Fellowships

• Early career researchers and innovators with outstanding potential.
• Internally managed fellowship – see Imperial Information for Applicants

Round 10 opens 3 Feb 2025

Internally managed process: Complete internal online application form by 3 March 12 noon 2025 

Imperial is permitted to support 8 candidates - these will be selected by a central panel with final decisions communicated by mid-May. 

UKRI Closing date: 18 June 2025

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Fellowships

EPSRC postdoctoral fellowships: responsive mode

• You can only apply for postdoctoral fellowships in the following areas of EPSRC research:
  • energy
  • mathematical sciences
  • synthetic biology
• No rules about years of postdoctoral experience. If you have more research experience, you may prefer to apply for the open fellowship or open plus fellowship. (see below)
• Welcome applications from candidates who want to move back into research after any type of break from active research.
• See full guidance on their website.

Up to 3yrs full time or if part time can extend to max 6yrs.

Ongoing – panel meets to discuss reviewed applications in Sept, then quarterly (approx Dec, March & June)

Please note: EPSRC Open, OpenPlus and postdoctoral fellowship opportunities closed to new applications from 12 December 2024. The EPSRC are reviewing fellowship funding in theoretical research. Details of new funding opportunities will be available on the UKRI funding finder during 2025.  

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Fellowships

EPSRC open fellowships: responsive mode

EPSRC open plus fellowships: responsive mode

• Open fellowships are for all career stages beyond postdoctoral level and include researchers who are close to their first academic appointment, leading in an area of technical development, or are a highly experienced researcher.
• Welcome applications from candidates who want to move back into research after any type of break from active research
• See full guidance on their website.

• Open plus fellowships follow the same criteria as open fellowships with the plus element (20% to 50% of time) spent on creating positive change in the research community. Need to champion a topic aligned to EPSRC improvement aspirations such as:
  • equality, diversity and inclusion
  • responsible research and innovation (RRI)
  • public engagement
  • policy, regulatory, economic or social aspects of your research
• See full guidance on their website.

Up to 5yrs full time or if part time can extend to max 10yrs.

Ongoing – panel meets to discuss reviewed applications in Sept, then quarterly (approx Dec, March & June)

(See above note on EPSRC Review of Fellowships - check funding finder during 2025).

Mathematical sciences Open, OpenPlus and postdoctoral fellowship opportunities will reopen on 30 January 2025.

Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Fellowships

Daphne Jackson Fellowship

• Daphne Jackson Fellowship - for those looking to return to a research career after a break of two or more years for family, health or caring reasons.
• You can view current opportunities on the Daphne Jackson Trust website. Sponsored fellowships are also advertised on university websites and on jobs.ac.uk
• See full guidance on their website. 

Flexible, with at least 100 hours retraining per year, and part-time – usually completed over two years at 0.5 full-time equivalent 

Open - no closing date

European Space Agency's (ESA) postdoctoral Research Fellowship programme

• Preference will be given to applications submitted by candidates within five years of receiving their PhD.
• Be a citizen from one of the ESA Member States and European Cooperating States, or from Latvia and Slovenia as Associated Member States and Canada as a Cooperating State.
• ESA job opportunities, visit the recruiting website.

To see open Research Fellowships, look for those positions titled Internal Research Fellow among the ESA job opportunities.

L’Oreal UK – Rising stars awards

• Must identify as female.
• No more than 10 years' active full-time equivalent postdoctoral experience (discounting career breaks but including teaching experience and/or time spent in industry).

Call usually Opens September with an October Deadline and selection in February each year. 

Royal Academy of Engineering

• The Academy welcomes applications from early-career researchers worldwide who have been awarded their PhD no more than 4 years before the submission deadline.

Imperial is restricted to 4 applicants

Internal selection process for 2024: May deadline, 4 applicants supported to submit by 18 September 2024. (see Research Office Managed Calls)

Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellowships 

• No more than three years of postdoc experience.
• If completed PhD at Imperial, will need to change research groups.

Open: October 2024

Deadline: 6 January 2025

Brunel Fellowship

• No more than three years of postdoc experience, by the anticipated started date of Oct 2025.
• Researchers in the core subjects of civil, mechanical, electrical, or aeronautical engineering seeking to address the primary infrastructure needs of modern society.

Open: October 2024

Deadline: 6 January 2025

Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Built Environment Fellowships

• Applications are welcomed from post-graduates, researchers, practitioners or professionals on a career break.
• Specific themes will be advertised each year. 

Applications announced in May 2025

Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF)

• 3-8 years of postdoc experience.
• Research must be within the Royal Society’s remit of natural sciences, which includes but is not limited to biological research, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, and physics.

Opens: 15 July 2025

Closes: 10 September 2025

Decision: 30 June 2026

Schlumberger Foundation

• Faculty for the Future focuses on developing and emerging countries where women are underrepresented in STEM disciplines
• See further information on the SLB Foundation website

Opens: 2 September 2024

Closes: 8 November 2024

Expect similar timeline for 2025

Fellowship name

Eligibility

Duration of Fellowship

Deadline

UKRI - Future Leaders Fellowships

• Early career researchers and innovators with outstanding potential.
• Internally managed fellowship – see Imperial Information for Applicants  

Round 10 open 3 Feb 2025

Internally managed process: complete internal online application form by 3 March 12noon 2025

Imperial is permitted to support 8 candidates these will selected by a central panel with final decisions communicated by mid-May.

UKRI Closing Date: 18 June 2025

Alzheimer's Research UK Clinical Research Fellowship

• Clinical Research Fellowships are intended for clinically qualified researchers, who ideally already hold a PhD.
• Research must align with Alzheimer’s Research UK’s strategy, 
• For information on the skills and training you will be expected to demonstrate, see  Early Career Researcher Framework.
• Frequently asked questions on their website.

Open: July 2024

Deadline: 12 noon, 17 September 2024

Expect similar timeline for 2025.

British Heart Foundation (BHF) Intermediate Clinical Research

• PhD/MD plus NTN;
• More than two years of specialist training but less than two years after CCT.  

5 years with the possibility of 2 year extension

Rolling, there are no closing dates – applications reviewed 4 times a year by Fellowship Committee.

MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship (CSF)

• Clinically qualified PhD/DPhil/MD or Vet Med (providing their project is of relevance to human health).
• There are no eligibility rules based on years of postdoctoral experience.

3 times a year with current deadlines:

Current Round Closes: 15 January 2025

Next Round Opens: 16 January 2025 with deadline 9 April 2025

Further Round Opens: 4 June with deadline 3 September 2025

Final 2025 Round Opens 22 October with deadline 14 January 2026

MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship (CRTF)

• Achieved PhD over 5 yrs ago but have not been research active since due to clinical commitments.
• The CRTF supports clinicians, including (but not limited to) medics, surgeons, dentists, clinical psychologists, public health specialty trainees, allied health professionals, nurses, midwives and veterinarians, to undertake a PhD or other higher research degree.

3 times a year with current deadlines:

Current Round Closes: 15 Jan 2025

Next Round Opens: 16 Jan with deadline 9 April 2025

Further Round Opens: 10 April with deadline 3 Sept 2025

Final 2025 Round Opens 4 Sept with deadline 14 January 2026

NIHR Advanced Fellowship

• Must hold a relevant PhD or MD, or have submitted your thesis for examination at the time of application (you must have been awarded a PhD or MD by the time you attend the interview).
• Complete the relevant pre-registration training (for clinical academic applicants).

2 rounds a year

Opens: April

Closes July

Interview: January

And

Opens: October

Closes: January

Interview: July

NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement Award

• Be a current member of the NIHR Academy
• Have completed any relevant pre-registration training (clinical academic applications only).
• Hold a relevant PhD or MD, or have submitted their thesis for examination at the time of application – applicants must have been awarded their PhD or MD by the time they start.
• Ensure that any previous NIHR awards undertaken finished no longer than 12 months ago.
• Have not submitted a DSE application in the previous round

Launches January, May and September annually. 

Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Clinician Scientist 

• Career level - Postdoc, Clinician, Health professional.
• Demonstrate meet skills and experience in the “developing independence” career stage of CRUK Fellowship Competency Framework
• See further guidance from CRUK 

See Timelines

Current Timelines:

Outline Submission Deadline: 27 March 2025

Selected Applications deadline: 11 September 2025

Fellowship name

Eligibility

Duration

Deadline

UKRI - Future Leaders Fellowships

• Early career researchers and innovators with outstanding potential.
• Internally managed fellowship – see Imperial Information for Applicants  

Round 10 opens 3 Feb 2025

Internally managed process: Complete internal online application form by 3 March, 12 noon 2025.

Imperial is permitted to support 8 candidates. These will be selected by a central panel with final decisions communicated by mid-May.

UKRI closing date: 18 June 2025

Alzheimer’s Research UK Research Fellowship 

• PhD-qualified non-clinical researchers.
• No time-bound eligibility criteria, instead use Early Career Researcher Framework to assess researchers’ eligibility
• See FAQs on the Website.

Next round due to:

Open: 15 Jan 2025

Close: 5 March 2025

Alzheimer’s Society Postdoctoral Fellowship

• Applicants must be postdoctoral researchers not already in open-ended, university-funded posts, or final year PhD students who will have been awarded their PhD at commencement of the grant.   

Annual Cycle. 2025 dates expected to be similar to 2024:

Opens: Early in year

Deadline: March 2024

Deadline 2: July 2024 (for full proposals)

Outcome: December 2024

Alzheimer’s Society Dementia Research Leader Fellowship

• For talented researchers who wish to build on a number of successful years of research.
• Open to people from diverse disciplines and career paths including those returning from a career break or time in other roles and those wishing to transition into dementia research from other fields. 

Annual Cycle. 2025 dates expected to be similar to 2024:

Opens: Early in year

Deadline: March 2024

Deadline 2: July 2024 (for full proposals)

Outcome: December 2024

Versus Arthritis Career Development Fellowship

• A PhD (or equivalent), with the skills and experience to match those of the transition to an independent career stage.
• See full guidance on website and details of all funding opportunities 

Annual Cycle

Opens: 19 Feb 2025

Deadline: 16:00 21 May 2025

Versus Arthritis Bridging Fellowship

• The new bridging fellowship will provide up to 2 years funding for current Versus Arthritis fellowship holders who are in the final year of their fellowship
• See details of all funding opportunities

Deadline: 16:00 on 22 Jan 2025 

British Heart Foundation (BHF) Immediate Postdoctoral Basic Science 

• Candidates should have no more than 2 years of postdoctoral research experience from the date of the PhD viva.

Rolling deadline. There are no closing dates – applications reviewed 4 times a year by Fellowship Committee

British Heart Foundation (BHF) Intermediate Basic Science 

• Usually at least 3 to 6 years successful postdoctoral work, with a series of first or senior author high impact research papers

Rolling deadline. There are no closing dates – applications reviewed 4 times a year by Fellowship Committee

MRC Career Development Award (CDA)

• There are no eligibility rules based on years of post-doctoral experience.
• Research needs to focus on any area of MRC’s remit to improve human health.
• Need to show evidence of career progression & plans to develop as a leader in area of research 

2 Rounds each year, with deadlines in April and September

Next round opens: 17 April 2025 with a deadline of 10 Sept 2025

MRC Senior Non-Clinical Fellowship (SNCF)

• There are no eligibility rules based on years of post-doctoral experience.
• Have the skills and experience that match those of the ‘transition to leadership’ career stage in the MRC applicant skills and experience criteria, such as leading nationally competitive research and clear plans to develop into an internationally recognised leader in the field
• See full guidance for applicants 

2025 dates to be confirmed. Likely similar to 2024 dates:

Opened: June 2024

Closed: 16.00 on 11 Sept 2024

MRC New Investigator Research Grant (NIRG)

• Need to demonstrate skills and experience at the time of application match those of the ‘transition to independence’ career stage, as set out in the applicant skills and experience table.
• There are no eligibility rules based on years of postdoctoral experience, applicants can hold a lecturer appointment, a junior fellowship, or be in another research staff position.

For open, closing and funding decision meeting dates, see application timelines.

Current Call Deadline: 9 January 2025

Future round opens: January 2025 with a May 2025 deadline

Further round opens: May 2025 to Sept 2025

Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Career Development 

• Applications are considered from any area of CRUK funding remit, including population, prevention and early detection/diagnosis research, but with the exception of any interventional clinical study/trial and drug discovery.

• Be able to demonstrate that you meet the range of skills and experience as outlined in the ‘establishing independence’ career stage in CRUK Fellowships Competency Framework
• Need to have space and facilities to run an independent research group
• See Outline application guidance 

Outline application deadline: 27 March 2025

Committee Shortlisting: June 2025

Kidney Research UK Intermediate Fellowships (non-clinical)

• 2-3 years of postdoc experience to specialise in renal research aligned with KRUK  Research Strategyand 3 strategic priorities:
  • Transforming Treatments
  • Multiple Health Conditions
  • Health Inequalities  

Twice year, current time

Opened: 30 July 2024.

Closes: 28 August 2024.

Applicants will be notified on 23 September 2024 if they are invited for a full application to be submitted by 5pm, Wednesday 30 October 2024.

Kidney Research UK Senior Fellowships (non-clinical)

• Extensive post-doctoral experience and already have demonstrated a sustained ability to conduct independent research
• Research must align with KRUK  Research Strategy and 3 strategic priorities:
  • Transforming Treatments
  • Multiple Health Conditions
  • Health Inequalities  

Usually twice per year, 2025 expected to be similar to 2024 dates:

Opens: March

Closes: April

Round 2:

Opens July

Closes: August

L’Oreal UK – Rising stars awards

• Must identify as female postdoctoral level.
• No more than 10 years' active full-time equivalent postdoctoral experience (discounting career breaks but including teaching experience and/or time spent in industry).

Call usually Opens September with an October Deadline and selection in February each year. 

NIHR Advanced Fellowship

• Hold a relevant PhD or MD, or have submitted your thesis for examination at the time of application (you must have been awarded a PhD or MD by the time you attend the interview).

Twice a year next round:

Opens – October

Closes – January

Interview - July

NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement Award

• Be a current member of the NIHR Academy
• Hold a relevant PhD or MD, or have submitted their thesis for examination at the time of application – applicants must have been awarded their PhD or MD by the time they start.
• Ensure that any previous NIHR awards undertaken finished no longer than 12 months ago.
• Have not submitted a DSE application in the previous round.

Launches January, May and September annually. 

Wellcome Early-Career Awards

• This scheme provides funding for early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity. Through innovative projects, they will deliver shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing. 
• Generally, no more than three years postdoctoral research experience
• Fit within Wellcome's Discovery Research 

Usually three times a year - Upcoming deadline: 25 February 2025

Wellcome Career Development Awards

• Mid career completed one or two substantial periods of research after your initial training.
• Made important contributions to your area of research.
• You can already be a fellow.
• You may have been appointed to your first permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract within the last three years. If this applies to you, you can’t ask for your own salary with this award.

Usually three times a year - Upcoming deadline: 3 April 2025 

Prostate Cancer UK Travelling Prize Fellowships

• Within 4 years of their PhD
• Must spend 6x months at another research institution to establish collaborations as well as learning new skills and techniques that will support career development as a prostate cancer researcher.
• Research to align with Prostate Cancer’s research strategy.

Closing date June

Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group Little Princess Trust New Ideas Grant

• Open to researchers based at UK or Ireland University, NHS Hospital or Research Institute. Employment contract which encompasses the duration of proposed grant. See applicant guidance.
• The Trust generally funds basic science (with a clear plan for translation/patient benefit), translational and clinical research. For more information, read The Little Princess Trust's Research Strategy.
• New ideas Grants' are to help researchers generate high-quality preliminary data, or to demonstrate the validity of a hypothesis/study, to advance innovative and novel ideas with the potential to transform the treatment of children and young people's cancer. This preliminary data may be used to inform future fellowship applications.

17.00 Wednesday 26 February 2026

Fellowship name

Eligibility

Duration

Deadline

UKRI - Future Leaders Fellowships

• Early career researchers and innovators with outstanding potential.
• Internally managed fellowship – see Imperial Information for Applicants  

Round 10 Opens 3 Feb 2025 - Internally managed process complete internal online application form by 3 March 12noon 2025.

Imperial is permitted to support 8 candidates. These will be selected by a central panel with final decisions communicated by mid-May.

UKRI closing date: 18 June 2025

BBSRC Fellowship (Previously BBSRC Discovery Fellowship) 

• There is no limit on the number of years of postdoc experience. 
• Must have completed a successful PhD viva by 30 November of year of Fellowship submission
• You can apply if undertake biotechnology or biological research in:
  • Plants
  • Microbes
  • Animals and humans
  • Tools and technology underpinning biological research 

Opens: February annually

Closes: - May annually

European Space Agency's (ESA) postdoctoral Research Fellowship programme

• Preference given to applications submitted by candidates within 5 years of receiving their PhD.
• Be a citizen from one of the ESA Member States and European Cooperating States, or from Latvia and Slovenia as Associated Member States and Canada as a Cooperating State.
• ESA job opportunities link, visit the recruiting website.  

To see open Research Fellowships, look for those positions titled Internal Research Fellow among the ESA job opportunities.

Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)

2 different Fellowships:

Long-Term Fellowships (LTF) and

Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships (CDF)

Long- Term Fellowship

Applicants with a PhD on a biological topic who want to embark on a novel and frontier project focussing on the life sciences. Must have at least one lead author, full-length research paper (in an international peer-reviewed journal or published on a pre-print server) (see full guidance)

Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship

For applicants with a doctoral degree from a non-biological discipline (eg, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering or computer science) and not worked in life sciences.  See full guidance 

2025 dates to be confirmed. Likely to be similar to 2024 dates:

Opened: 24 May 2024

Closed: 26^th September 2024

L’Oreal UK – Rising stars awards

• Must identify as female postdoctoral level.
• No more than 10 years' active full-time equivalent postdoctoral experience (discounting career breaks but including teaching experience and/or time spent in industry).

Call usually Opens September with an October Deadline and selection in February each year. 

NERC Independent Research Fellowships

• Must evidence reasonable scientific and technical skills in line with the ambitions of the Independent Research Fellowship
• No time post PhD restrictions
• Full guidance on NERC Independent Fellowship webpage
• See Grants and Fellowships handbook

Opens: 9 January 2025

Closes: 3 April 2025, 16.00

Ramsay Trust Memorial Fellowship

• Postdoctoral chemists who have already had some postdoctoral experience of research.
• Applicants from under-represented groups are particularly welcome
• See further information here

Opens: August annually

Closes: November annually 

Royal Astronomical Society (RAS)  Research Fellowship and the Norman Lockyer Fellowships

• Up to 5 years of postdoctoral experience.
• RAS Fellowships - outstanding candidates to pursue research in the UK in the disciplines advanced by the RAS i.e. astronomy, solar system science, geophysics and closely related branches of these sciences.
• Norman Lockyer Fellowships - enable an outstanding researcher to devote the majority of their time to research on an astronomical topic, including solar system and planetary science.

RAS Fellowships will be sought in the years 2024 and 2027 and for the Norman Lockyer Fellowship in  2025 and 2028

Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Built Environment Fellowships

• Applications are welcomed from post-graduates, researchers, practitioners or professionals on a career break.
• Specific themes will be advertised each year. 

Open: October 2024

Deadline: 6 January 2025

Royal Society University Research Fellowship (URF)

• 3-8 years of postdoc experience.
• Research must be within the Royal Society’s remit of natural sciences, which includes but is not limited to biological research, chemistry, engineering, mathematics, and physics.

Opened: 15 July 2025

Closes: 10 September 2025

Decision: 30 June 2025

Schlumberger Foundation

• Faculty for the Future focuses on developing and emerging countries where women are underrepresented in STEM disciplines
• See further information on the SLB Foundation website

Opens: 2 September 2024

Closes: 8 November 2024

Expect similar timeline for 2025

Stephen Hawking Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Excellent researchers who will make significant contributions to the field of theoretical physics.

Now closed. Unsure whether will re-open

Wellcome Early-Career Awards

• You must have a PhD and generally no more than three years postdoctoral research experience.
• Open to any discipline as long as research fits within Discovery Research, check remit
• See webpage for further information and a webinar for early career researchers 

Runs three times per year, upcoming deadline: 25 February 2025

Wellcome Career Development Awards

• Mid-Career researchers completed one or two substantial periods of research after your initial training.
• made important contributions to your area of research.
• You can already be a fellow.
• You may have been appointed to your first permanent, open-ended or long-term rolling contract within the last three years. If this applies to you, you can’t ask for your own salary with this award.

Runs three times per year, upcoming deadline 3 April 2025

Fellowship name

Eligibility

Duration

Deadline

UKRI - Future Leaders Fellowships

• Early career researchers and innovators with outstanding potential.
• Internally managed fellowship – see Imperial Information for Applicants  

Round 10 opens 3 Feb 2025. Internally managed process - complete internal online application form by 3 March 12noon 2025.

Imperial is permitted to support 8 candidates. These will be selected by a central panel with final decisions communicated by mid-May.

UKRI closing date: 18 June 2025

ESRC postdoctoral fellowships

• Completed PhD at a research organisation that is part of a DTP or CDT;
• Imperial is a member of the LISS DTP
• Within 12 months of passing viva.

Initial Expression of Interest by 5pm 6 January 2025.

Full proposal by deadline: 16.00 on 25 March 2025

Imperial College Research Fellowships

• Up to 4 years postdoc experience 
• See ICRF applicants webpage
• Sponsor or co-sponsor limited to supporting a single fellowship and only 1 ICRF at any one time

Annual process, likely timeline:

Briefings: June 2025

Closing date: August 2025

Faculty shortlisting: September, October 2025

Interviews: November 2025

Results: December 2025

Leverhulme Early Career Research

• No more than four years from PhD viva;
• Must not have a permanent academic position.
• See webpage and applicant guidance

Deadline: 16:00, 20 February 2025

Decisions: 23 May 2025

Marie Curie Individual Fellowship

There are 2 types of Postdoctoral Fellowships:

• European Postdoctoral Fellowships - Open to researchers moving within Europe or coming to Europe from another part of the world to pursue their research career.
• Global Postdoctoral Fellowships - They fund the mobility of researchers outside Europe.
• Both require PhD and max 8 years post doc experience
• See full guidelines 

European: 1-2 years

Global: 2-3 years

Next call opens 9 April 2025

Science & Technology Facilities Council (STFC) Ernest Rutherford 

• PhD and some postdoctoral research experience (no years since PhD);
• Check department requirements.

Annual call. 2025 expected to be similar to 2024 dates:

Opened: June 2024

Closes: 1^st October 2024

Fellowship name

Eligibility

Duartion

Deadline

Daphne Jackson Fellowship - For scientists re-entering after a career break.

• These fellowships are for those looking to return to a research career after a break of two or more years for family, health or caring reasons.
• You can view current opportunities on the Daphne Jackson Trust website. Sponsored fellowships are also advertised on university websites and on ac.uk.
• See full guidance on their website.

Rolling (except sponsored calls) 

Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin – scientists who need to work flexibly

• No more than 6 years of postdoc experience 

Opens: 2 September 2025

Closes: 28^th October 2025

Decisions: 31^st July 2026

L’Oreal UK – Rising stars awards

• Must identify as female.
• No more than ten years' active full-time equivalent postdoctoral experience (discounting career breaks but including teaching experience and/or time spent in industry).

Call usually Opens September with an October Deadline and selection in February each year. 

London Mathematical Society – Grace Chrisholm Young Fellowship 

• Have a PhD and be returning from a career break, looking to move back into mathematical research
• Open to men and women

Usual deadline twice per year, next deadline: 28 February 2025

Schlumberger Foundation

• Faculty for the Future focuses on developing and emerging countries where women are underrepresented in STEM disciplines
• See further information on the SLB Foundation website

2025 dates expected to be similar to 2024:

Opened: 2 September 2024

Closed: 8 November 2024

• Usually returning from a break of 2 years or more 
• You can apply for funding of up to £2,500 to cover the cost of activities that will help you prepare a proposal for STFC fellowship funding, such as:
  • literature reviews
  • familiarisation with equipment and techniques
  • attendance at meetings and seminars.

 Rolling

Wellcome Sanger Janet Thornton Fellowship

• A minimum of 12 months break from scientific research, for any reason
• Have at least one years’ postdoctoral research experience
• Will be able to start within 6 months of being offered the role
• Not currently working in a scientific research role

Applications will open Autumn 2025 - check here.

Fellowship name

Eligibility

Duration

Deadline

European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) – Postdoctoral Fellowships

• Up to 2 years of postdoctoral experience.
• Applicants must have at least 1 first author publication (research paper) accepted in or published in an international peer reviewed journal at the time of application. A first author preprint (research paper) with public in-depth peer reviews is also sufficient for eligibility provided the reviews were verifiably obtained from an independent peer review service
• Must move between countries.
• For detailed eligibility criteria, read the EMBO Postdoctoral Fellowships guidelines.

Marie Curie Individual Fellowship

There are 2 types of Postdoctoral Fellowships:

• European Postdoctoral Fellowships - Open to researchers moving within Europe or coming to Europe from another part of the world to pursue their research career.
• Global Postdoctoral Fellowships -  They fund the mobility of researchers outside Europe.
• Both require PhD and max 8 years post doc experience
• See full guidelines 

European: 1-2 years

Global: 2-3 years

Next call opens: 9 April 2025

Schlumberger Foundation

• Faculty for the Future focuses on developing and emerging countries where women are underrepresented in STEM disciplines
• See further information on the SLB Foundation website

2025 dates to be confirmed, expected to be similar to 2024:

Opened: September 2024

Closed: 8 November 2024

Fellowship name

Eligibility

Duration

Deadline

Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP)

2 different Fellowships:

Long-Term Fellowships (LTF) and

Cross-Disciplinary Fellowships (CDF)

Long- Term Fellowship

Applicants with a PhD on a biological topic who want to embark on a novel and frontier project focussing on the life sciences.

Must have at least one lead author, full-length research paper (in an international peer-reviewed journal or published on a pre-print server) (see full guidance)

Cross-Disciplinary Fellowship

For applicants with a doctoral degree from a non-biological discipline (eg, physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering or computer science) and not worked in life sciences.  See full guidance

3 years

2025 dates to be confirmed - likely to be similar to 2024 dates:

Opened: 24 May 2024

Closes – 26^th September 2024