Major Research Fellowships in the Humanities and Social Sciences

These awards enable well-established and distinguished researchers in the disciplines of the Humanities and Social Sciences to devote themselves to a single research project of outstanding originality and significance, capable of completion within two or three years.

The award is made to the institution at which the successful Fellow is employed, and takes the form of providing a replacement staff member to cover the period of the Fellowship.

Applicants

Applicants must be employed at an eligible UK institution at the time of application and throughout the duration of the Fellowship. Applicants must be able to demonstrate scholarship at the highest level, which has been sufficient to have won international recognition. When assessing applications the Trust gives particular weight to those cases where a particularly onerous teaching or administrative load in recent years has impeded the applicant's research progress.

Institutions

Applicants must be employed by a university or other institution of higher or further education in the UK.

Value

The Fellowships fund the salary costs (normally starting at the most junior point of the lecturer scale at the institution concerned) of a full-time individual to undertake the normal duties of the applicant for the duration of the Fellowship.

A Major Research Fellow may be awarded research expenses up to an annual maximum of £5,000. If such funds are required they must be requested in the budget submitted as part of the application procedure.

Please ensure that applications do not include any of the ineligible costs listed here.

Duration

The duration of a Fellowship is for two or three years, to start at the beginning of the 2012/13 academic year.

Application Procedure

Application materials can be accessed from the Trust’s website after 1 February 2011. Applications must be submitted online by the closing date of 4.00pm on 6 May 2011.

The Trust will report results to applicants by the end of December 2011.

Contact

If your query is not answered in the information above, please contact Nicola Thorp (020 7042 9872).