Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2026 for Researchers (Salaried) – YOA

Deadline: October 16, 2026

The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2026 is now open. Apply to spend time at Centre for Research within the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) as a salaried fellow from September 2027 to May 2028.

The Isaac Newton Trust will match the Leverhulme award in assist of people who efficiently apply for Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships to be held on the University of Cambridge beginning between 1 September 2027 and 1 May 2028. There will probably be an inner competitors inside Cambridge to find out which purposes will be supported with match-funding from the Trust. Applicants also needs to learn the steerage supplied by the Isaac Newton Trust.

Eligibility

Before making use of, candidates should guarantee they meet the next standards:

• A doctorate should be accomplished by the beginning of the Fellowship, with the doctoral thesis submitted for viva voce by the Leverhulme deadline (more likely to be early/mid-February 2027). Applicants should not be registered for every other diploma or qualification when beginning the Fellowship, and their thesis submission date should not be sooner than 4 years earlier than the Leverhulme deadline (more likely to be early/mid February 2023), except a profession break as a result of distinctive circumstances will be demonstrated.
• Applicants should both maintain a level from a UK college or have been in a UK educational place (e.g., fastened-time period lectureship) for no less than 4 months earlier than the deadline. Those who started their educational put up after October 2024 or have been employed for lower than 4 months previous to the deadline aren’t eligible except they meet steady employment standards.
• Applicants with three or extra years of postdoctoral analysis expertise specializing in unbiased analysis aren’t eligible.
• Candidates should not have beforehand held a full-time everlasting educational place at a UK college or equal establishment, nor can they maintain such a put up throughout the Early Career Fellowship. The Trust will contemplate candidates with everlasting roles that don’t contain analysis. Additionally, people receiving a stipendiary Fellowship can not maintain it alongside the Early Career Fellowship.

The full particulars of the Leverhulme Trust’s eligibility guidelines and application process ought to be consulted earlier than making use of.

Applications

Applications are invited from candidates wishing to carry a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at one of many following Centres inside CRASSH:

• Centre for Geopolitics
• Cambridge Digital Humanities
• Centre for Pandemic Risk Management

Please observe that CRASSH will probably be supporting candidates by means of these Centres. Applicants ought to submit the next supplies by means of the net application system by 12:00 midday on Friday 16 October 2026:

1. A accomplished cowl sheet (download).
2. A quick CV (most two pages).
3. A draft of the three gadgets required for the Leverhulme application:
   • An inventory of your main publications (most one aspect).
   • A press release of your present analysis (most 250 phrases).
   • An in depth analysis proposal (most two sides, together with references).

We additionally require two letters of reference, no less than certainly one of which ought to come from outdoors Cambridge. These letters ought to come from two of the three referees who will assist your eventual application to the Leverhulme Trust if you’re chosen. Referees ought to add their letters instantly by means of the net application system by 17:00 on Friday 16 October 2026.

Applicants ought to specify which taking part CRASSH Centre they want to be hosted by within the following methods:

• Listing their chosen Centre as their proposed host inside CRASSH on the duvet sheet.
• Naming their proposed mentor and the mentor’s division within the “Proposed academic host” part.

It is feasible for candidates to have a mentor based mostly in one other Department or Faculty whereas holding their fellowship inside one of many taking part CRASSH Centres; the mentor does not must have an current affiliation with that Centre.

Successful purposes clearly articulate why the chosen Centre gives the perfect analysis atmosphere for the proposed challenge, highlighting its experience, interdisciplinary strengths, and the way the fellowship would profit from being based mostly there.

Please observe that overlength purposes won’t be thought of.

Click here to apply.

For extra info, go to CRASSH.