Opportunity status:
Open
Funders:
Funding type:
Fellowship
Publication date:
30 January 2025
Opening date:
30 January 2025 9:00am UK time
Closing date:
Open - no closing date
Last updated: 3 April 2025 -
These are personal, career development focused awards.
You must have either:
* a PhD and some years of additional research experience
* more than four years’ experience in a relevant field by the start of your fellowship
You must be hosted and supported by an eligible UK research organisation during your fellowship.
Your Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) fellowship can be up to five years long and may be held part time.
Your fellowship must focus on research where the majority of the research novelty lies within our mathematical sciences remit.
Open plus fellowships have an additional focus on enhancing the research environment and culture.
To lead a project, you must be based at an eligible organisation. .
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has introduced new role types for funding opportunities being run on the new UKRI Funding Service.
For full details, visit .
You can apply if you have a PhD or have worked in a relevant field for at least four years by the start date of your fellowship.
Open and open plus fellowships are for all career stages beyond postdoctoral level and include researchers who are close to their first academic appointment, leading in an area of technical development, or are a highly experienced researcher.
You can apply for an open fellowship if:
* your programme of work will last up to five years in duration and will deliver high quality research within mathematical sciences
* you have identified areas for your continued research and professional development that will enable you to expand or enhance your role and career professional development is not limited to formal training courses and can include acquiring additional skills and experience through formal, informal routes or both, which will need to be fully justified and subject to peer review
We encourage applications from candidates who have taken a non-standard career path after their first degree.
We also welcome applications from candidates who want to move back into research after a career break or any other type of break from active research.
Research organisations
We expect eligible research organisations to select through inclusive processes, support the most suitable candidates for these fellowships, and identify the additional support and resources they will provide the applicant if successful.
If you are a research organisation, you must:
* make sure that the experience, aims and aspirations of the applicant are suitable for a fellowship application
* commit to supporting the applicant to ensure their knowledge and expertise in implementing good practice and in creating a modern and inclusive research environment is continually updated
* identify the additional support you will provide to ensure successful fellowship delivery and opportunities for the applicant to expand or enhance their current role
Resubmissions
We will not accept uninvited resubmissions of projects that have been submitted to UKRI or any other funder.