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Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship 2024-25 - departmental deadline 9:00 11 September 2023
6 July 2023
The Department of Political Science/School of Public Policy at UCL is now welcoming applications for the 2024/2025 Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships scheme.
The Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships aim to provide career development opportunities for those who are at a relatively early stage of their academic careers, but who have a proven record of research. The expectation is that Fellows should undertake a significant piece of publishable work during their tenure and that the Fellowships should lead to a more permanent academic position.
Funder’s deadline falls on 22nd February 2024. Faculty is selecting in mid-November 2023 therefore, in order to give everyone a chance to prepare properly and our Departmental Research Committee the time manage applications easily with the start of term 1, we have set the departmental deadline on 11th September 2023, at 9am.
The Trust will contribute to the Fellow’s total salary costs and annual research expenses of up to £6,000. Fellowships are expected to last for three years on a full-time basis and should commence between 1 September 2024 and 1 May 2025. Main eligibility points to keep in mind:
- Applicants must not yet have held a full-time permanent academic post in a UK university or comparable UK institution, nor may Fellows hold such a post concurrently with the Early Career Fellowship.
- All candidates must hold a doctorate or have equivalent research experience by the time they take up the Fellowship. Those who are or have been registered for a doctorate at any time may apply only if they have submitted their doctoral thesis for viva voce examination by 4 pm on the closing date (indicatively on 22nd Feb 2024, see above).
- Applications are invited from those with a doctorate who submitted their doctoral thesis for viva voce examination not more than four years prior to the application closing date. Hence those who formally submitted their doctoral thesis for viva voce examination before February 2020 are not eligible unless they have since had a career break.
- Applicants must either hold a degree (any degree) from a UK higher education institution at the time of taking up the Fellowship or at the time of the application deadline must hold an academic position in the UK (e.g. fixed-term lectureship, fellowship) which commenced no less than 4 months prior to the closing date. Hence, those who do not hold a UK degree and whose UK academic position commenced after October 2023 are not eligible.
- Candidates who have been, or are currently a Principal Investigator on a three-year postdoctoral research project, or have held or currently hold a comparable three-year postdoctoral position to pursue their own research are not eligible to apply.
- A candidate may submit only one application per year. Previously unsuccessful applicants may reapply.
Please note that candidates must have the support of an academic member of staff who will act as the mentor and who has reviewed and commented on the proposal before it is submitted to the department for consideration. Referee statements are not required at this stage, however, please note that Faculty is expecting a budget draft for the research costs (£6K/year).
Please let polsci.research@ucl.ac.uk know if there are any questions.
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