Funding Opportunity

Fellowships

Summary

Important Notice:

The AHRC has now announced some significant changes to its Fellowships scheme, in line with its Delivery Plan 2011-15. As a part of implementing these changes we will be making some amendments to application forms. Accordingly the last date for submitting Fellowship applications (including under the early career route) using the current JE-S forms will be 4pm on 17 October 2011. The Fellowships scheme (including the early career route) will re-open to applications in revised form in January 2012 and the amended forms will be available in JE-S from the beginning of January 2012. Individuals who have already started fellowship applications in JE-S  are advised to make arrangements to complete and submit these before 17 October. In such cases it is strongly recommended that they liaise with their research offices to ensure that they allow sufficient time for institutional approval and submission processes and do not to leave submission until 17 October; it will not be possible to submit applications after this date using the current forms. Individuals who have not yet started applications and are considering applying to the scheme in 2012 are advised to read the details of the amended scheme before undertaking significant work on their application so as to ensure that it meets the expectations of the revised scheme.

pdf icon Full details of the revised Fellowships scheme (pdf 123kb)

pdf icon Fellowships changes FAQs (pdf 84kb)

 

The Fellowships scheme provides salary and associated costs for periods of three to nine months, to enable an individual researcher to work on a specified research project or programme. The Fellowship can be used to support a wide range of research activities provided that these lead to significant specified research and other outputs by the end of the Fellowship, including the preparation of publications and other outputs from research conducted prior to the start of the Fellowship. Proposals for full economic costs up to a maximum of £120,000 may be submitted.

Closing Dates

 

Please see the above important notice. The scheme closed to applications on 17 October 2011 and will be reopening in revised form to applications in early January 2012. The earliest start date for Fellowships under the revised scheme is likely to be 1 January 2013.

Please note that the assessment process for applications submitted to the Fellowships scheme (Standard and Early Career routes) takes approximately 30 weeks and the earliest start date for a project should be no earlier than 9 months after submission to the AHRC.

On occasions, there might be a delay in obtaining the peer reviews for an application and this may result in the assessment process taking longer. In such circumstances, the AHRC will contact the applicant to inform them of any delay.

How to make an application

For both routes of the Fellowships scheme you must submit an application through the cross-council Joint Electronic Submission - (JE-S) System. If you need any assistance to use the system, please contact the JE-S helpdesk on 01793 444164 or on JesHelp@rcuk.ac.uk.

Further Information

pdf icon AHRC Funding Guide (pdf 919kb) provides an overview of the different routes of the Fellowships Scheme. It details the eligibility criteria, assessment criteria, information on how to apply, eligible dates and terms and conditions of awards. You must ensure that you meet all of the eligibility criteria before submitting an application.

Subject Coverage

Contacts

The AHRC work with the RCUK Shared Services Centre (SSC) to deliver all of our funding activities. All queries regarding eligibility for funding and applications in progress and also queries regarding current awards, should be directed to the SSC team dealing with your subject area using the contacts page.

 

What's New

Find out more about our latest competitions including:  

"" Our latest Research Funding Guide is now available (pdf 919kb)

All about impact

Want to find out all about impact? Take a look at our impact section.

Read about our approach to impact, case studies focusing on the impact of projects, and a study into the career paths of our postgraduate award holders.

Funding Guide

The latest edition of our Research Funding Guide is now available

pdf icon Research Funding Guide (pdf 919kb)

Funded Research

Find out more about the research we have funded, see our award listings, read case studies and find out about the impact of our awards. Just go to the funded research section of the website.

Acknowledging our support

All award holders are required to acknowledge our support in any outputs from their project. Find out more about our requirements and download a copy of our logo

Email Newsletter

Sign up for our Email Newsletter on JISCmail and keep up to date with our latest news, events and competitions.