Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowships 2025/2026 (Funded) – YOA

Deadline: September 17, 2025

Applications for the Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowships 2025/2026 are actually open. The Royal Academy of Engineering affords Research Fellowships every year to excellent early-profession researchers to help them to turn out to be future analysis leaders in engineering. The scheme’s aims are to:

• help the very best early-profession researchers in establishing their independence and worldwide repute.
• present lengthy-time period help enabling the pursuit of an formidable programme of engineering analysis and impression.
• develop ambassadors for the Academy and advocates for STEM (science, know-how, engineering and arithmetic) disciplines.

Benefits

• Each application is capped at a most contribution from the Academy of £625,000 over the 5-12 months interval, at 80% of full financial prices.

Eligibility

• Open to early-profession researchers worldwide who’ve been awarded their PhD within the final 4 years.
• Research Fellowships have to be held at one of the next eligible establishments that may present it’s succesful of totally supporting an engineering-centered analysis venture and researcher:
  • a UK greater schooling establishment/college or
  • a UK analysis organisation that’s eligible to obtain UKRI funding.
• The host establishment should agree to offer the Research Fellow all of the help regular for a everlasting worker.
• The proposed analysis venture have to be in an engineering topic space. Engineering is outlined in its broadest sense, encompassing a variety of numerous fields.
• There aren’t any nationality and age restrictions for candidates. The host establishment is accountable for securing all obligatory work permits and associated prices for the Research Fellows.
• Applicants who’ve utilized to this scheme earlier than and had been unsuccessful are eligible to reapply. These functions will probably be thought-about as new functions.
• Research Fellowships should start between 1 August 2026 and 31 October 2026. The length of a Research Fellowship is 5 years full time, calculated on a professional-rata foundation for part-time awards. Requests for a shorter Research Fellowship should not accepted.
• There is a restrict on the quantity of functions every host establishment can submit.

Application

Read the Applicant Guidance Notes 2025/2026 for full particulars of the analysis fellowship schemes and how you can apply. 

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowships.