Chevening Research, Science, and Innovation Leadership Fellowship (CRISP) 2026-2027 (Fully-funded) – YOA

Deadline: October 7, 2025

Applications are open for the Chevening Research, Science, and Innovation Leadership Fellowship (CRISP) 2026-2027. The Chevening Research, Science and Innovation Leadership Fellowship (CRISP) is geared toward mid-profession professionals with very excessive potential within the fields of science, innovation, and enterprise from India and Sri Lanka. The fellowship is hosted by St. Cross College, University of Oxford. The programme is funded by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office.

The foremost tutorial strands of the 12-week CRISP Fellowship embrace science, innovation, management, and administration, in addition to wider points together with world challenges, politics, and worldwide relations. The modules goal to:

• Develop an understanding of the UK science area and a spread of innovation administration processes.
• Explore the interactions between analysis, innovation, and financial growth.
• Research and current a marketing strategy primarily based on particular person pursuits and expertise.
• Visit a variety of UK establishments, analysis institutes, and companies, and begin constructing skilled networks.
• Take part in a different cultural programme, and discover potential insights from the humanities to the working atmosphere.

Benefits

Each fellowship contains:

• Full programme charges
• Living bills all through the fellowship
• Return economic system airfare from India or Sri Lanka to the UK

Eligibility

To be eligible for a Chevening CRISP Fellowship, it’s essential to:

• Be a citizen of India or Sri Lanka and at the moment reside within the nation.
• Return to your nation of citizenship on the finish of the interval of the fellowship.
• Have a postgraduate degree qualification (or equal skilled coaching or expertise in a related space) on the time of application.
• Have at the least seven years’ work expertise previous to making use of.
• Have demonstrable dedication to innovation, and the expertise and aptitude to contribute to the programme.
• Have a wonderful tutorial background in science, engineering, or expertise, or appreciable expertise of working in such fields.
• Have an excellent working information of English to be assessed in your application kind and in case you are invited to interview.
• Not maintain British or twin British citizenship.
• Agree to stick to all related tips and expectations for the fellowship.
• 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.

Successful people might have vital expertise as:

• Executives of service firms, manufacturing companies, or state-owned firms.
• Entrepreneurs and people who serve and fund the entrepreneurial group.
• Research scientists.
• Academics and public-sector staff.

Application

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For extra info, go to CRISP.