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.
Information for applicants to AHRC funding schemes
In 2010 the AHRC, along with the other Research Councils, will be transferring its grants processing activities to the new RCUK Shared Services Centre. In addition, the AHRC office will be moving from Bristol to Swindon in June. While the AHRC will do its utmost to minimise the disruption to applicants and others, normal timescales for assessing grant applications will have to be changed to enable these changes to take place as smoothly as possible and for normal business to resume soon after the new systems are in place.
Please note we will not be accepting applications to the Fellowships scheme between 4pm 18 March 2010 and 31 May 2010. In addition, Fellowship applicants are strongly advised to submit their applications before the end of February 2010 as the outcomes of some applications submitted in March are unlikely to be announced until spring 2011.
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.
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.
AHRC Funding Guide (558kb) 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.
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