UK Nuclear Deterrence Network Futures Fellowship 2025 – YOA

Deadline: July 2, 2025

Applications are open for the UK Nuclear Deterrence Network Futures Fellowship 2025. This 18-month programme is for early- and mid-profession professionals with 3-7 years of related skilled or tutorial expertise who’re eager to deepen their information and interact with the evolving idea and apply of deterrence and its function in UK and worldwide safety.

They welcome functions from residents of NATO member states working throughout academia, assume tanks, NGOs, governments, the armed forces, and the non-public sector.

Program Details

Fellows will deepen their information on nuclear deterrence by partaking with a variety of views and approaches to the present and future function of deterrence for the UK and additional afield. Over the course of the programme, Fellows will analytically have interaction with the next thematic areas, amongst others:

• Foundations of UK and Allied nuclear deterrence
• Nuclear, typical, and built-in deterrence and rising and disruptive applied sciences
• The politics of nuclear deterrence and its interplay with disarmament efforts and platforms
• Escalation administration and strategic communications
• Evolving capabilities of Russia and China and the altering nuclear order

The fellowship additionally gives an OPPORTUNITY for Fellows to attach with senior officers and high worldwide consultants, take part in state of affairs-based mostly discussions and workouts, and obtain skilled growth help.

Fellowship programming will embody:

• Five in-individual conferences
• Two website visits (one within the UK, one elsewhere in Europe)
• Regular on-line skilled growth seminars, conferences with consultants, and programming tailor-made to Fellows’ pursuits
• Development of coverage briefs, with the choice to write down quick-type coverage articles, associated to the UK Nuclear Deterrence Network’s three areas of focus.

Benefits

• The fellowship is an unpaid, non-residential skilled growth programme. The UK Nuclear Deterrence Network will, nonetheless, cowl all journey and lodging prices for the programme’s in-individual engagements.

Eligibility

• Open to British residents, in addition to residents of different NATO member states at the moment residing within the United Kingdom.
• 3-7 years of related expertise in academia, assume tanks, NGOs, governments, the armed forces, or the non-public sector.
• Committed to embracing an open mindset and creating an inclusive, respectful atmosphere the place a broad vary of viewpoints and views will probably be valued and welcomed.

Application

Submit your application by 23:59 BST on 2 July 2025.

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to UK Nuclear Deterrence Network Futures Fellowship.