Royal Society: Wolfson Visiting Fellowship

14/09/2023

22/09/2023

The Royal Society Wolfson Fellowships programme will enable UK Universities and Research Institutions to attract talented international researchers to the UK’s scientific community, through one of two complementary routes: 1) A five-year Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship, which will focus entirely on recruitment, enabling UK institutions to enhance their offering with a £300,000 fellowship award to international research leaders wishing to relocate to the UK. 2) A new Visiting Fellowship strand, which will allow excellent international researchers a flexible sabbatical period at a UK university or research institution with an award of up to £125,000, to build and develop international collaborations and networks with the host UK university or research institution. Visiting Fellow alumni will also be welcome to apply for longer term support provided by the Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship. The objectives of the Royal Society Wolfson Visiting Fellowships are to: Enable UK Universities and Research Institutions to attract talented international researchers in key strategic areas to the UK from overseas. Enable the Visiting Fellow and the host UK organisation to develop ongoing collaborative research links, share ideas and practice. Funder deadline: 8 November 2023.

Research must be within the Royal Society’s remit of natural sciences, which includes but is not limited to biological research, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics.

Eligibility Note Candidates must be nominated by the Departmental Head from the proposed UK host institution. The nominator will be required to state what impact the nominated candidate and the resulting international collaboration will have on the proposed field of research, how this fits with the institutional or departmental strategic priorities and commitments made thus far demonstrating the strategic importance of the field to the host institution/department. The Society is keen to attract and encourage the widest range of talented applicants to its fellowship schemes in support of excellence in science. The nomination should also outline the transparent process undertaken by the institution to select the candidate. The institution will also be required to make a commitment concerning what other support (direct or in-kind) it will provide. In instances, where more than one candidate is nominated by the institution in the same round, a strong case against the organisation’s strategic priorities must be provided.