Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships 2025 – call for expressions of interest

Posted on 22 October 2024

We're now accepting expressions of interest for the 2025 round of the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships.

Please be aware that we are only able to support one application this round.

These fellowships are aimed at early career researchers with a strong research record 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, and the project put forward should therefore not be a reworking or mere extension of the candidate’s doctoral research project.

The Leverhulme Trust selects projects to support based on the following criteria which should be considered when putting together your expression of interest:

Originality – the research achieves more than the incremental development of a single discipline.
Importance – the work will enable further research or enquiry.
Significance – the proposed research has relevance outside a single field, and is able to excite those working in other disciplines.
Merit – the quality of the research design and methodology, and the suitability of the researchers and institution for the realisation of the proposed research objectives.

Please see Leverhulme’s website for more details of the scheme and to check your eligibility: Early Career Fellowships | The Leverhulme Trust

We are limited in the number of applications we can put forward to the Leverhulme Trust and, in addition to the assessing the excellence of the proposed research project, will prioritise candidates who can demonstrate high levels of research independence and experience post-PhD, as well as those with a strong fit to the department’s existing research interests (see Research - Education, University of York).

You should identify a suitable mentor for your project from within the department’s research staff (see Academic, research and teaching staff - Education, University of York). You will need to approach your proposed mentor and ask them to complete the mentor’s statement on the EoI form before you can submit your expression of interest to the department.

If you have any questions about choosing a mentor or applying for this scheme please email alice.hiendl@york.ac.uk.

Interested applicants should complete the Expression of Interest form and return it to education-research-admin@york.ac.uk by 12 noon on Monday 25 November 2024. This EoI form will be used as the basis on which the department will decide whether they can support your application. Applicants will be informed of the department’s decision by Thursday 5 December. If invited to submit a full proposal we will work closely with you to meet the internal university deadlines for submission.