Funding Opportunities

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships

The University of Manchester’s School of Arts, Languages and Cultures (SALC) invites applications from prospective applicants to the forthcoming round of the Leverhulme Trust’s Early Career Fellowship scheme (2025). 

Early Career Fellowships are tenable on a full-time basis for a period of three years, to commence between 1 September 2025 and 1 May 2026. They offer support for early career researchers who have not yet held a full-time permanent academic post in a UK university or comparable UK institution.

Applicants must normally have submitted their doctoral thesis for viva voce examination no more than four years prior to the Trust’s closing date of 20 February 2025. In addition, they must either hold a degree from a UK higher education institution at the time of taking up the Fellowship, or at the time of the Trust’s application deadline must hold an academic position in the UK (e.g. fixed-term lectureship) which commenced no less than four months prior to the closing date.

During the award period, fellows are expected to undertake a significant piece of publishable research which must be distinguishable from their PhD project, rather than a mere extension of their doctoral research.

Full details of the scheme are available from the Leverhulme Trust website.

SALC is one of the largest interdisciplinary arts and humanities schools of its kind in the UK. Consult our website for information on our subject areas, staff specialisms and research centres and institutes. Those interested in applying must contact a University of Manchester (UoM) academic who can act as a sponsor for their application.

The SALC deadline for submitting your expression of interest is Monday, 11 November 2024, but please note that Departments may have set up earlier internal deadlines.

Successful applicants will be notified in December 2024. Those applicants who are successful at this stage will receive specialist support to complete the full online application before the Leverhulme Trust’s submission deadline of 20 February 2025.

We will be holding an online information session for potential applicants to postdoctoral fellowships:

Date: Tuesday 25 March 2025
Time: 4-5pm

Join the event on Teams (No registration required)

This session will cover the three following schemes:

The session will include a brief overview of each scheme, application tips, and a Q&A with current postdoctoral fellows working at the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. These fellowship opportunities are open to both UoM and external applicants. The session is aimed at those who have already completed their PhD.

The session will not be recorded, but those who wish to receive the session slides can register their contact details using this Teams form.

Any queries should be directed to Guilherme Fians, Research Development Officer in SALC: guilherme.fians@manchester.ac.uk