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Industry Fellowships in County Durham

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Minimum company size: 1

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Background

Industry Fellowships are funded by the Royal Society and Rolls Royce plc.

Objectives of Fund

The scheme aims are to:

  • Support the mobility of excellent academic or industrial researchers between in two sectors in the UK, across the natural sciences.
  • Enable the Industry Fellow to develop and establish collaborative links between the academic and industrial organisations, which may lead to longer term collaborations.
  • Support the career development of the Industry Fellow, and their team, through the cross-sector collaborative research experience afforded by the fellowship.
  • Enhance knowledge exchange in science and technology between industry and academia.
Value Notes

Funding consists of:

  • The Fellows basic salary for the duration of secondment, as such the employing organisation should continue to pay national insurance and pension contributions for the industry fellow.
  • Research expenses of up to £4,000 per year, which may be used to support summer studentships.
Awards can be for any period up to two years full-time or pro rata, ie it could be held at 50% part-time for four years, enabling fellows to maintain links with their employing institution more easily.

Who Can Apply

Applicants can be of any nationality and should be at a stage in their career when they would particularly benefit from establishing or strengthening personal and corporate links between the two sectors. Applicants must hold:

  • A PhD or be of equivalent standing in their profession.
  • A permanent post or have an 'open-ended contract' in either a UK university, a not-for-profit research organisation or UK industry.
Applications involving spin-offs or small companies provided they have a well-established research team and facilities are encouraged. Applicants from industry must state clearly how the fellowship will benefit the not-for-profit research organisation or university; especially in cases where the applicant has financial involvement within the company. Applicants should also state what complementary skills the employees at the company have to offer.

The Royal Society Industry Fellowships panel will assess all applications and consider the following:

  • The quality of the proposed science.
  • The track record of the Industry fellowship applicant.
  • The added value of the fellowship to the applicant's career development.
  • The innovation and potential impact of the applicant’s research.
  • The benefit to the academic and industrial/commercial organisation.

Location

United Kingdom

Restrictions

The Society does not support clinical or interventional research on humans at the individual or group level, social sciences or humanities.

Self-employed consultants are not eligible to apply as the industrial partner.

Applicants should not be a representative on the board of the Industrial Partner, whether the Industrial Partner is the Current Employer or the Host Organisation.

Eligible Expenditure

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.

Eligible use of human participants in research can include investigation where the experiments are conducted in vitro - for example, the use of human tissue or other biological samples, chemistry techniques, mathematical modelling or engineering, translational research and collaborative research with clinicians.

How To Apply

Upcoming deadlines:

  • 2025 Round 2: Open between 12 February 2025 and 9 April 2025.
  • 2026 Round 1: Open between 24 July 2025 and 18 September 2025.
Applications should be submitted through the Royal Society's grant management system Flexi-Grant.

More information is available at the Royal Society website.

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