Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council - Fellowships

Fellowships

Three step guide to start your Fellowship application

• Competency profile: determine, with help from your university’s research office, your competency profile and therefore to which career stage you should apply against. Please see the EPSRC Fellowshipperson specification.
• Fellowship Priority Areas: look at which priority areas within the Capability and Challenge Themes are open for applications and at what career stage.
• How to apply: carefully read the guidance on the documents required on our fellowship webpages, the funding guide and general instructions on writing proposals.

Overview of EPSRC's Fellowship Scheme

The EPSRC Fellowship aims to provide greater support to the aspiring and current world-leading individuals who are delivering the highest quality research to meet UK and global priorities. Through links to our strategic priorities and focussing on areas where growth is required, Fellowships develop the next generation of researchers with the greatest potential across the postdoctoral, early and established career stages.

EPSRC fellows gallery, Frequently Asked Questions

Areas in which fellowships are available

EPSRC's Capability and challenge themes have gone through an initial exercise of prioritising the areas in which fellowships will be offered. This will be an on-going process and will be updated on a regular basis throughout the Delivery Plan period.

On-going refresh of fellowship priority areas, Fellowship Priority Areas, Other fellowship opportunities

Application and peer review process

Applications can be submitted at any time and will be processed on a rolling basis. Fellowship applications will be prioritised twice a year in approximately January / February and July, at our standard-grant panel meetings.

Who can apply and when, Assessment criteria, How to apply, Resources, Fellowship policy …

Obligations of the host organisation

It is expected that eligible Research Organisations who wish to submit fellowship applications to EPSRCwill identify a number of suitable applicants as specified by the guidelines and within the defined research area and career space.

Briefing for research organisations

Managing your fellowship

Role of your research organisation, moving during the fellowship, applying for other EPSRC funding and interrupting your fellowship.

Who to contact

For general and theme-specific fellowship queries, please see our list of contacts.