Leverhulme Trust
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship
3-year fellowship with salary + research costs for early-career researchers at UK institutions.
Programme guide in progress
We are still researching the full guide for Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship. In the meantime, you will find the live open calls, eligibility basics and related programmes below.
Key facts
- Career stage
- 0-4 years post-PhD
- Duration
- 3 years
- Salary
- 50% Leverhulme + 50% host
- Scope
- All disciplines
- Success rate
- ~15-20%
Who is eligible?
- •PhD awarded within the last 4 years at the call deadline
- •Extensions possible for career interruptions
- •Host institution in the UK
- •Open to all disciplines (humanities, social sciences, sciences)
Curious who tends to win this grant?
See past Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship awardees →Related programmes
Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Early-Career Award
Salary + up to £400,000 over 5 years for researchers establishing their own independent research programme.
Dutch Research Council (NWO)
NWO Veni
Up to €320,000 over 3 years for researchers in the Netherlands within 3 years of PhD completion.
European Research Council
ERC Starting Grant
Up to €1.5M for early-career researchers 2-7 years post-PhD conducting ground-breaking frontier research.
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