RAEng / Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowships support UK engineering academics with teaching and administrative cover to free up research time, strengthen their track records and build research teams.
Applications are now closed; the funder replaced the previously listed deadline of 3 November 2026 at 5pm GMT with a closure notice.
Research Fellowships from the Royal Academy of Engineering support early-career researchers to pursue independent engineering research, build an international reputation and become future research leaders.
Research Chairs and Senior Research Fellowships support UK engineering academics pursuing research with industry to develop new products, processes and services with societal and economic benefit.
Industrial Fellowships support academics and industrialists through engineering research secondments between industry and academia to strengthen partnerships, transfer knowledge and address industrial problems.
The Royal Academy of Engineering's Chair in Emerging Technologies supports leading researchers to drive disruptive technological innovation in the UK over a ten-year period.
APEX Awards support established independent researchers pursuing collaborative, curiosity-driven research across disciplinary boundaries to advance fundamental understanding and benefit wider society.