Royal Society Short Industry Fellowships 2026 [Round 1] – YOA

Deadline: May 28, 2026

Applications are open for the primary spherical of Royal Society Short Industry Fellowships 2026. This scheme, part of the Royal Society’s Industry programme, permits scientists employed in trade or academia and/or their postdoctoral researcher to have shorter extra dynamic engagements between academia and trade, engaged on a mutually helpful and collaborative mission.

The Short Industry Fellowships scheme is open to gifted researchers, particularly early profession researchers, in academia or trade within the UK.

The goals of the scheme are to:

• Support mobility of fantastic tutorial or trade researchers (and/or their postdoctoral researcher) between the 2 sectors within the UK, throughout the pure sciences
• Enable the guy to provoke and develop collaborative hyperlinks between the tutorial and trade organisations, which can result in long run collaborations (and might search additional funding by way of the Industry Fellowship)
• Support the profession growth of the guy and/or their postdoctoral researcher gained by way of the working within the different sector
• Enhance information trade in science and know-how between trade and academia. Awards should contain mobility between sectors i.e. UK primarily based non-public trade and a UK college or a not-for-revenue analysis organisation.

Funding

Awards could be held full time for 3 to 6 months. Alternatively, they are often held at 50% part-time for as much as 12 months, enabling fellows to keep up hyperlinks with their using establishment extra simply.

Funds can cowl:

• The applicant’s and/or their postdoctoral researcher’s fundamental wage whereas on secondment. The using organisation continues to pay nationwide insurance coverage and pension contributions
• Research bills which can be claimed as much as a price of £1,000

Eligibility

This scheme is for you if: 

• You maintain a PhD or are of equal standing in your occupation;
• You maintain a put up in both a UK college, a not-for-revenue analysis organisation or UK trade, which is both a everlasting or mounted-time period place with an finish date after the anticipated finish of the Short Industry Fellowship;
• Your analysis is throughout the Royal Society’s remit of pure sciences, which incorporates however just isn’t restricted to organic analysis and biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, arithmetic and physics.

Application

The application deadline for the primary spherical is May 28, 2026.

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For extra info, go to Royal Society Short Industry Fellowships.