Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships support early-career researchers at Cambridge’s participating CRASSH centres to complete significant publishable research and advance toward permanent academic posts.
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Funder: Centre for Research in the Arts Social Sciences and Humanities
Due Dates: October 16, 2026 (CRASSH internal application and references) | February 18, 2027 (Leverhulme final submission)
Funding Amounts: Three years: salary support up to £56,000 in year one and £28,000 annually in years two and three, plus up to £6,000 annually for research
Summary: Supports early-career researchers undertaking significant publishable research within one of three participating CRASSH centres at Cambridge.
Key Information: Both a mentor and host department must be confirmed before the internal application deadline.
Description
The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships support researchers with a research record who have not yet held a full-time permanent academic post. The aim is to enable a significant piece of publishable research and help fellows progress toward a permanent academic position. The proposed work must be achievable during the fellowship and must not merely rework or extend the applicant’s doctoral project.
Through CRASSH at the University of Cambridge, applicants seek a fellowship hosted by the Centre for Geopolitics, Cambridge Digital Humanities, or the Centre for Pandemic Risk Management. The Isaac Newton Trust supports Cambridge fellowships through matching funding, allocated through an internal competition. Applicants must explain how their chosen centre’s expertise and interdisciplinary research environment benefit the project. A mentor may be based in another Cambridge department or faculty without an existing affiliation with the centre.
