Funder: Leverhulme Trust
Due Dates (Anticipated): May 2027 (Annual closing date)
Funding Amounts: Replacement salary costs for two or three years, plus research expenses up to £6,000 annually
Summary: Supports distinguished humanities and social science researchers to complete original research delayed by routine duties.
Key Information: Applicants must work at a UK university with research degree awarding powers and cannot be previous fellowship holders.
Description
The Leverhulme Trust’s Major Research Fellowships support well-established, distinguished researchers in the humanities and social sciences to complete a piece of original research. The scheme is particularly aimed at researchers whose routine duties have prevented, or are preventing, them from finishing a substantial programme of work. Applicants should demonstrate scholarship at the highest level, although they do not need to hold professorial status.
The fellowships provide two or three years of concentrated research time by funding a replacement to undertake the fellow’s normal duties. Research expenses can also be requested. The emphasis is on completing original work with explicitly stated outcomes, rather than simply providing general research support.
