Before you begin your application:
- Read the funders' call guidance carefully.
- It is your responsibility to ensure that you are eligible to apply. Contact the funder to discuss your eligibility if required and submit the decision with your EOI.
- Ensure you can deliver your research objectives within the costs and remit of the call.
- You must seek support from a potential mentor within the Institute before applying. Our academics are heavily involved in teaching and must have the capacity to support individuals.
Some calls have now closed but we are assuming these calls will open at the same time in following years. Please note that call guidance may vary year on year. For enquiries regarding the application process, please contact our Finance and Research Officer, Sudershana Dave.
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Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorships
Allows eminent senior professors from overseas to bring novel expertise and enhance skills and knowledge in an underrepresented area in the UK.
EOI deadline: 27 Feb 2026
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships
Aimed at 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
EOI deadline: 4 Sep 2026
Wellcome Trust Early-Career Awards
For ECRs from any discipline to deliver shifts in understanding related to human life, health and wellbeing, though innovative projects.
EOI deadlines: 27 Feb 2026, 26 June 2026 and 4 Sep 2026
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships
Aimed at researchers wishing to carry out research activities abroad, acquire new skills and develop their careers.
Deadline: 27 Feb 2026
The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
Aimed at early career researchers in the humanities and social sciences wishing to pursue an independent research project and complete significant, publishable research.
EOI deadline: 26 June 2026
The British Academy International Fellowships
Aimed at early career researchers to make a first step towards developing an independent research career through gaining experience across international borders.
EOI deadline: 5 Sep 2025
The British Academy Visiting Fellowships
Enables academics from any country overseas to be based at a UK HEI of their choice for up to six months and develop collaborative projects with UK colleagues.
Call currently closed.
The British Academy Global Professorships
Allows overseas researchers to undertake high-risk, curiosity-driven research in the humanities and social sciences.
Call currently closed.
ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowships
For those in the immediate postdoctoral stage of their career to consolidate their PhD through developing publications, networks, and professional skills.
Apply directly to the UBEL DTP.