Faraday Discovery Fellowships

Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowships

Invitation to external applicants to apply

 

The Faraday Discovery Fellowship programme supports mid-career researchers who are acknowledged leaders in their fields with 10-20 years of post-PhD experience.

The Royal Society funding initiative is designed to provide the time and freedom to focus on research, offering long-term, stable funding that will empower recipients to tackle difficult and intractable problems. 

Applicants can apply for up to a maximum of £8 million over ten years.

The Department of Engineering Science is keen to support applications to the Royal Society Faraday Discovery Fellowships scheme from both internal and external candidates.

We invite interested external applicants to send a CV* and a two-page summary covering their proposed research, how this enhances existing research within the department, and how this will enhance the applicants’ career, to research@eng.ox.ac.uk by 21 August 2024.

The Department is particularly keen to support applications from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are currently under-represented in positions of this type at Oxford. The Department is also keen to attract outstanding applicants to the UK.

 

*This should be no longer than 3 sides of A4, portrait orientation, with margins of at least 2cm. Please do not use a text size smaller than Arial 11 and make sure the document is titled. The format and content of the CV is at the applicant’s discretion, however it should include details of the applicant’s track record, wider contributions to research, research impact and research culture as well as details of research appointments. These contributions might include public engagement, schools’ engagement, knowledge exchange, mentoring, industry collaboration, team leadership, patents, commercialisation or broader business activity, peer review and committee membership.