Please find below a updated list of research calls and funding opportunities.
Calls and Opportunities
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2025
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) is inviting Expressions of Interest (EoIs) from outstanding early career researchers seeking support for their application to the Leverhulme Trust's Early Career Fellowship scheme 2025. We particularly welcome applicants who seek to advance scholarly understandings in ways that exceed a single field or discipline, in line with our longstanding institutional commitments to interdisciplinarity.
The Funding Opportunity
The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships scheme supports 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.
Applicants should also refer to the Leverhulme Trust’s approach to grant-making.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for this call, the applicant must have:
- Submitted their PhD for viva voce by 4pm on 20 February 2025; OR submitted prior to 20 February 2021 and can provide evidence of a career break to justify their eligibility if prior to that date.
- A degree from a UK institution; or does not have a UK degree but holds a fixed-term position which commenced before October 2024; or does not have a UK degree but has been in continuous UK academic employment for more than four months prior to the funder deadline.
- Moved institutions in the course of their academic career (e.g. between their undergraduate university and proposed host institution).
- Not previously been a PI on a 3-year project or held a comparable 3-year post-doctoral position to pursue their own research.
- Not yet held a full-time permanent academic post in a UK university or comparable UK institution.
Value and duration
Fellowships are tenable for 3 years on a full-time basis.
Internal Expression of Interest Stage
- Applicant identifies a mentor and contacts their proposed mentor to discuss their potential application. The mentor should be the applicant’s first point of contact throughout the EoI process.
- The applicant completes the expression of interest via the following online Microsoft form: Lancaster University Leverhulme ECF EoI 2025 and sends relevant attachments to s.greenbank@lancaster.ac.uk by 5pm on Friday 22nd November 2024.
- The panel selects candidates to put forward and notifies all successful and unsuccessful candidates.
Application Timetable
Date |
Details |
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2 September 2024 |
Internal Expression of Interest opens. |
22 November 2024 at 5pm |
Internal Expression of Interest closes. |
25 - 29 November 2024 |
RSO eligibility checks. Ineligible applicants notified by RSO. |
w/c 2 December 2024 |
Selection panel meets. Selected candidates, their mentors and HoDs will be notified. Candidates should work on their application with RSO in preparation for the deadline. HoDs to meet with candidates to negotiate salary costs. Unsuccessful candidates will be notified. |
1 January 2025 |
Leverhulme online application form opens. |
20 January 2025 |
Candidate to submit their application to the FASS Peer Review College to allow sufficient time for review and comments. |
14 February 2025 |
HoD submits supporting statements via the Leverhulme application portal no later than the date shown. |
18 February 2025 |
Initial submission via the Leverhulme portal to allow time for final University approval. |
20 February 2025 |
Leverhulme Trust deadline at 4pm. |
Any queries about this scheme should be directed to s.greenbank@lancaster.ac.uk.
Joy Welch Post-Doctoral Grants Fund Results for previous years:
Results for previous years can be found:
Joy Welch Reporting Final 2021/2022
Existing Research Funding
- UKRI 27/3 'No-cost' extension requests to grants impacted by coronavirus will be allowed.
- Wellcome offering more flexibility and support for staff who are ill/isolating/clinical/have caring responsibilities, in line with their host organisation policies
Researchers on Grants
Walport to UCU letter 26/3 notes it highlights “the needs and urgency of the workforce” and calls for help identifying the most pressing issues. UCU's letter called for UKG to extend current research grants and guarantee the incomes of fixed-term researchers at their current level. UCU propose:
- eg redeploy any unspent direct costs such as on travel, conferences and workshops to extend the researcher’s fixed-term contracts during this current period.