Early Career Fellowships and Awards in the Arts and Humanities
The School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture is keen to support outstanding candidates in a number of externally funded research fellowship schemes. We welcome expressions of interest from high quality early-career candidates whose research interests align with those of academics in the School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen, and who have checked their eligibility for the below schemes, which are advertised annually. For any informal enquiries please contact the School Director of Research Dr Syrithe Pugh or School's Research Development Executive Dr Sabine Freitag .
| Funder | Scheme | Opening/ Closing Date 2023 | Triage Process |
| The British Academy |
Post-Doctoral Fellowship | Closed for 2024 (estimated opening date early July 2025) | School level details for 2025 to be confirmed. |
| International Fellowship | Closed for 2024 (estimated opening date early January 2025) | School level details for 2025 to be confirmed. | |
| Wellcome Trust | Early-Career Awards | 1st October 2024, 17:00 BST | School Level |
| Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) | Catalyst Award | The time-line for opening and closing dates can be found here . | School level |
| UKRI (Cap of 4) | Future Leaders Fellowship Round 10 | TBC | UoA Internal Triage to be run in early autumn 2024 . |
| European Research Council | Starter Grant | Deadline 15 October 2024 - 17:00 Brussels time | For further details please contact europe-rg@abdn.ac.uk |
| Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship | Open 9th April 2024 and closes 11 September 2024. | For further details please contact europe-rg@abdn.ac.uk |
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Round 10: deadline anticipated summer 2025
A pre-triage deadline is planned in autumn 2024 to enable interested applicants to benefit from early support in developing their proposals ahead of a later internal triage deadline - the date of this will be confirmed once UKRI has announced details of R10.
Internal and external potential applicants: please contact the School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture in the first instance to confirm School endorsement to proceed with an Expression of Interest. The internal deadline for Expression of Interest documentation is 20 September 2024.
AHRC Responsive Mode: Catalyst Award:
Awards to support researchers without prior experience of leading a significant research project to accelerate their trajectory as independent researchers, to unlock their potential and build leadership and convenor experience. You must be based at a UK research organisation eligible for AHRC funding. The full economic cost (FEC) of your project can be up to £300,000. AHRC will fund 80% of the FEC. Funding is for projects up to five years in duration. The timeline for opening and closing of rounds can be accessed here . Further details on the scheme can be found here .
Funding: Up to £100,000 - £300,000