Funder: Leverhulme Trust
Due Dates (Anticipated): May 2027 (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 through relief from routine duties.
Key Information: Applicants must work at a UK university with research degree-awarding powers; previous Major Research Fellows are ineligible.
Description
The Leverhulme Trust’s Major Research Fellowships give well-established, distinguished researchers in the humanities and social sciences sustained time to complete a piece of original research. The scheme is particularly aimed at researchers whose routine duties are preventing, or have prevented, them from completing a programme of research.
Rather than funding the fellow’s own salary, the award pays for another individual to undertake their normal duties for two or three years. This arrangement enables fellows to concentrate on their research, with additional support available for research expenses. Applicants are expected to demonstrate scholarship at the highest level and explicitly identify the proposed outcomes of their work.
