Royal Society Industry Fellowship 2025/2026 (up to £168,000) – YOA

Deadline: April 9, 2025

Applications are open for the Royal Society Industry Fellowship 2025/2026. The Industry Fellowship is part of the Royal Society’s wider Science and Industry Programme, which strives to promote the worth and significance of science by connecting academia, business and authorities.

The Industry Fellowship scheme is open to tutorial and industrial researchers from early to senior profession phases based mostly within the UK.

The goals of the scheme are to:

• Support the mobility of wonderful tutorial or industrial researchers between the 2 sectors within the UK, throughout the pure sciences.
• Enable the Industry Fellow to develop and set up collaborative hyperlinks between the educational and industrial organisations, which can lead to long run collaborations.
• Support the profession improvement of the Industry Fellow, and their workforce, by the cross-sector collaborative analysis expertise afforded by the fellowship.
• Enhance data alternate in science and expertise between business and academia.

Benefits

Applicants might apply for up to a most award worth of £168,000 over the award interval. Awards might be for any interval up to two years full-time or a most of 4 years professional rata (i.e. an award may very well be held at 50% part-time for 4 years), enabling Industry Fellows to preserve hyperlinks with their using establishment extra simply.

Funds can cowl:

• The applicant’s fundamental wage whereas on secondment. The using organisation will proceed to pay nationwide insurance coverage and pension contributions.
• Research bills which can be claimed up to the worth of £4,000 per yr, and could also be used to assist summer time studentships. 

Eligibility

This scheme is for you if:

• You have a PhD or are of equal standing in your occupation;
• You maintain a everlasting submit or have an ‘open-ended contract’ in both a college, not-for-revenue analysis organisation or business within the UK;
• You are at a stage in your profession if you would significantly profit from establishing or strengthening private or company hyperlinks between academia and business, as a basis for lengthy-time period collaboration and improvement;
• Your analysis is throughout the Royal Society’s remit of pure sciences, which incorporates however will not be restricted to organic analysis and biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, arithmetic and physics.

Application

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Royal Society Industry Fellowship.