Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships Scheme

The University of Nottingham has now begun its internal processes for putting forward applicants for the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships scheme.

The scheme provides support for outstanding early career scholars with a research record but who have not yet held a full-time permanent academic post. The objective is for Fellows to undertake a significant piece of publishable research during the tenure of the award, so the project should not be a reworking or mere extension of the candidate’s doctoral research project. Further eligibility criteria are listed on the Leverhulme website. Applications must show a strong fit between a mentor on the School’s academic staff and our wider research environment.

For the initial stage in the process, applicants should email a c.v. (max. 2 pages) and statement of the proposed research (max. 2 pages, indicating contribution to the discipline, theoretical contexts, methods, resources, and planned outputs) before 5 pm on Friday 1st December to Benjamin.Holland@nottingham.ac.uk.

Applications will be reviewed by representatives of the School’s Research Committee, and those which are successful at this stage will receive institutional support in developing their final applications. Applicants must have been in contact with a potential mentor who would be prepared to support their application before this deadline.