Research Fellows

The Royal Society funds around 700 Research Fellows at any one time. Our Fellowships fall into the following categories:

Early Career Fellowship Schemes

Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships
- support excellent scientists at an early stage of their career for up to four years

Education Research Fellowships
- provide outstanding educationists with the opportunity to build an independent research career in STEM education

JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program 
- provides opportunities for early career researchers from the UK to conduct research in Japanese institutions

Newton International Fellowships
- attract the world's best early-career researchers to the UK for two years

University Research Fellowships
-  provide outstanding scientists, who have the potential to become leaders in their chosen field, with the opportunity to build an independent research career. Funding is available for up to 8 years.

Senior Fellowship Schemes

Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships
- Allow scientists to concentrate on their research by relieving them of teaching and administrative duties for a year

Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Awards
- Provide a five year salary top-up to attract or retain outstanding scientists

Royal Society Research Professorships
- Provide ten years' funding for internationally recognised scientists 

Innovation Schemes

Industry Fellowships
- Support knowledge transfer by allowing scientists to work in industry, or vice-versa

For more information on these schemes, please click here