Apply for Short Industry Fellowships (Round 2) – United Kingdom

Aims

• The Short Industry Fellowships scheme is open to talented researchers, especially early career researchers in academia or industry in the UK. The aims of the scheme are to:
  • Support mobility of excellent academic or industry researchers (and or their postdoctoral researcher) between the two sectors in the UK, across the natural sciences
  • Enable the fellow to initiate and develop collaborative links between the academic and industry organisations, which may lead to longer term collaborations (and can seek further funding through the Industry Fellowship)
  • Support the career development of the fellow and or their postdoctoral researcher gained through the working in the other sector
  • Enhance knowledge exchange in science and technology between industry and academia

Subjects Covered

• 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.
• Submissions from clinically qualified scientists may be considered. The Society does not support clinical or interventional research on humans at the individual or group level, social sciences or humanities, unless otherwise stated.

Funding Information

• Funding will consist of:
  • The fellow’s and or their postdoctoral researcher’s basic salary for the duration of the award. (Note: the employing institution will be expected to continue to pay national insurance and pension contributions).
  • Research expenses may be claimed up to the value of £1,000 per fellowship.
• Fellowships are expected to commence by March 2025.

Eligibility Criteria

• 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 also hold:
  • a PhD or be of equivalent standing in their profession
  • a post in either a UK university, a not-for-profit research organisation or UK industry, which is either permanent or fixed-term with an end date after the expected end of the Short Industry Fellowship.
• Host organisation: is the applicant’s current employing organisation.
• Partner organisation: is where the applicant is proposing to carry out their secondment during their fellowship.

Assessment Criteria

• The primary considerations will be the following:
  • The track record of the Short Industry Fellowship applicant and their postdoctoral researcher if applicable (commensurate with their career stage and takes into consideration any career breaks).
  • The quality of the proposed science;
  • The innovation and potential impact of the applicant’s proposed research;
  • The added value of the fellowship to the individual’s career development
  • The mutual benefit to the academic and industrial commercial organisations and the potential to lead to longer-term collaboration.

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