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We'd love to welcome you and your research to the Faculty and the University. We provide insight and support for academics looking to apply for the many Fellowships opportunities available. Below you can find some of the funded fellowships that could help bring you here, plus the bespoke support packages we have in place for applicants.

Externally funded fellowships

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UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships

Supporting early career researchers and innovators with outstanding potential with long-term, flexible funding. Please note this scheme is currently closed and details of the next round will be made available as soon as they are available.

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British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships

Opportunities for outstanding early career researchers to strengthen their experience of research and teaching in a university environment. Please note this scheme is currently closed and details of the next round will be made available as soon as they are available.

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British Academy Global Professorships

Aimed at outstanding international mid-career and senior researchers in any disciplines within the Humanities and Social Sciences who do not currently work in the UK.

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships

Opportunities for outstanding early career researchers who have not yet held a full-time permanent academic post to undertake a significant piece of publishable work. Please note this scheme is currently closed and details of the next round will be made available as soon as they are available.

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Wellcome Trust Discovery Awards

There are three awards under this programme: Early Career Award, Career Development Award, and Discovery Award. All support bold research that could improve human life, health and wellbeing.
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Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships

For excellent postdoctoral researchers worldwide who wish to come to the University of Liverpool in the UK to lead on their own research project

University of Liverpool Fellowships

The University also presents its own Fellowship opportunities.

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University of Liverpool Research Fellowships

Our five year research fellowships will develop future research leaders across a broad and diverse range of subjects in an inclusive and collaborative environment. Applications are currently closed.
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Virtual Fellowships (Heritage)

The Fellowships are available to researchers at select partner universities working in the field of heritage and are open to early career as well as established researchers.
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Derby Fellowships

The University's Derby Fellowships aim to recruit a new generation of outstanding academic leaders within the Humanities & Social Sciences