UKRI What Works Innovation Fellowships – Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls 2026 – YOA

Deadline: September 8, 2026

Applications are open for the UKRI What Works Innovation Fellowships – Tackling Violence Against Women and Girls 2026. Spend 18 months as one in every of three What Works Innovation Fellows, producing and championing proof that helps rework how the UK tackles violence in opposition to girls and ladies. Each fellowship is funded by UKRI’s Research & Development Missions Accelerator Programme and shall be hosted by one in every of three Government-backed What Works Centres: Foundations (the What Works Centre for Children & Families); the What Works Centre for Crime Reduction on the College of Policing; and the Youth Endowment Fund.

You will:

• Deliver analysis and innovation tasks inside your host What Works Centre, producing and championing rigorous, actionable proof to forestall or scale back violence in opposition to girls and ladies.
• Play a number one position within the launch of a National What Works Programme on tackling Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG), working in partnership with the opposite Fellows and organisations together with the Cabinet Office, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), VAWG sector help providers, universities, and different What Works Centres.

Funding

Fellows can apply for as much as £220,000 at Full Economic Cost consisting of:

• ​£180,000 for the fellowship at Full Economic Cost
• £40,000 for analysis and collaboration prices

Eligibility

• Open to researchers who maintain a PhD or equal analysis expertise in addition to related material or methodological experience.
• You have to be primarily based at a UK using organisation eligible for UKRI funding.

Selection Criteria

You should:

• be a researcher within the remits related to the precise place utilized for or have the ability to display how you could possibly generate interdisciplinary insights by combining these disciplines with different recognised educational disciplines.
• maintain a PhD or equal analysis expertise
• meet any extra eligibility and particular person specification standards for the fellowship you’re making use of for
• have material and analytical experience and abilities related to the precise fellowship place you’re making use of for
• have the ability to work successfully at tempo to ship anticipated outcomes, together with working as part of a crew on shared objectives
• have the power to speak complicated info and evaluation
• have the power to display using experience in a non-educational context
• have glorious written and verbal communication abilities, with the power to translate complicated info into significant narrative that’s accessible to a non-educational viewers
• possess glorious stakeholder engagement and collaboration abilities
• have the power to co-design work programmes and lead on information alternate exercise between analysis, coverage and funder communities

Application

The application assertion ought to reply to the next questions:

• Vision: What are you hoping to realize along with your proposed fellowship?
• Applicant functionality to ship: Why are you the fitting particular person to ship the goals of this fellowship? Please confer with the fellowship necessities.
• Approach: How are you going to method the co-design of the fellowship along with your host What Works Centre?

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For extra info, go to UKRI What Works Innovation Fellowship.