Chevening Energy Market Reform Fellowship 2026-2027 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: October 7, 2025

Applications are open for the Chevening Energy Market Reform Fellowship 2026-2027. The Chevening Energy Market Reform Fellowship presents senior officers and professionals from the power sector in China the OPPORTUNITY to spend three months in Dundee as a visiting Chevening Fellow.

The fellowship is hosted on the Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law Policy (CEPMLP) on the University of Dundee. The programme is funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

Programme Structure

Fellows could have the chance to spend time on the University of Dundee for 3 months to work on a selected analysis mission that helps the broader goals of the UK-China Energy Dialogue, as agreed with the CEPMLP educational supervisor.

Fellows are supplied unrestricted entry to courses, lectures, and seminars, which can feed into their very own chosen space of analysis, with assist from an instructional supervisor throughout their fellowship. At the time of interview, the candidate’s proposed analysis shall be mentioned with a University of Dundee school member.

Benefits

• Full programme charges
• Living bills throughout the fellowship
• Return economic system airfare from China to the UK
• CEPMLP Supervisor to assist analysis actions
• Full entry to courses, lectures, and seminars at CEPMLP
• Access to a programme of cultural occasions and actions organised by the FCDO and the Chevening Secretariat

Eligibility

To be eligible for the Chevening Energy Market Reform Fellowship, you will need to:

• Be a citizen of China and presently dwell within the nation.
• Intend to return to China on the finish of the interval of study.
• Agree to stick to all related pointers and expectations for the programme.
• Hold a postgraduate (PG) stage qualification (or equal skilled coaching or expertise in a related space) on the time of application.
• Have important and significant skilled expertise (5 plus years, presently employed or presently enrolled PhD candidate (PhD should not be with a UK/EU or USA college)).
• Not maintain twin nationality the place one nationality is British (apart from for nationals exempt from this requirement listed within the Chevening Guidance for Applicants).
• Not be an worker, a former worker, or relative of an worker of His Majesty’s Government, or have been throughout the final two years from the opening of Chevening functions (together with the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, all British Embassies/High Commissions, the Home Office, the Ministry of Defense, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Department for International Trade and the UKVI), the British Council, or a sponsoring UK college.

Additional circumstances:

• Applicants who’ve beforehand obtained monetary profit from an HMG-funded scholarship or fellowship, are eligible to apply after a interval of 5 years following the completion of their first HMG-funded award and are required to show their profession development from that time.
• Employees, former workers, or family of an worker of Chevening Partner organisations are eligible to apply, but when the employment came about throughout the final two years, you can’t obtain a Chevening Partner Award from the organisation from which you’re employed, beforehand labored, or are affiliated with by means of family.

Application

Applications are till 7 October 2025, at 12:00 (UTC). Ensure to submit your application inside this era.

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For extra data, go to Chevening Energy Market Reform Fellowship.