Funding

The Royal Society runs nineteen funding schemes which are designed to enhance the UK science base and foster collaboration between UK-based and overseas scientists.

Early Career Fellowship Schemes

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

Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships
- support excellent early-career scientists, who require a flexible working pattern, for up to four years

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

Brian Mercer Awards for Innovation
- Support the transformation of an already proven concept into a near-market product

Brian Mercer Feasibility Awards
- Allow researchers to test the economic and/or scientific feasibility of a project for commercialistion

Mercer Prize
- Presented to an individual whose research has been commercially exploited for significant wealth generation or societal benefit

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

Mullard Award
-Presented to an individual whose work is currently making, or has the potential to make, a contribution to national prosperity

Research Capacity and Infrastructure Schemes

International Scientific Seminars  
- Allow Royal Society Research Fellows to organise 2-day conferences

Leverhulme-Royal Society Africa Awards 
- Pairs UK and sub-Saharan African scientists

Paul Instrument Fund 
 - Supports the design and construction of scientific equipment

Research Grants 
- Provide seed-corn funding of up to £15,000 for scientists within the first five years of their first permanent academic position

Royal Society Wolfson Laboratory Refurbishment Grant 
- Supports lab modernisation and renovation

Mobility Grant Schemes

International Joint Projects 
- Support long-term international collaborations

International Travel Grants
- Support short-term international collaborations and the participation of UK scientists in overseas conferences