
Providing replacement teaching costs over two or three years, to allow academics in the humanities and social sciences to focus on a specific piece of original research. The 2014 round opens in February 2014 and closes on 8 May 2014.
These awards enable well-established and distinguished researchers in the humanities and social sciences to devote themselves to a single research project of outstanding originality and significance, capable of completion within two or three years. Candidates should state explicitly what the proposed outcomes of the award will be. Fellowships are particularly aimed at those who are or have been prevented by routine duties from completing a programme of original research.
Value
The Fellowships fund the salary costs (normally starting at the most junior point of the lecturer scale at the institution concerned) of an individual to undertake the normal duties of the applicant for the duration of the Fellowship.
A Major Research Fellow may also request research expenses up to an annual maximum of £5,000. If such funds are required they must be requested as part of the application procedure.
Duration
The duration of a Fellowship is for two or three years, to start at the beginning of the 2015/16 academic year.
Applicants must be employed by a university or other institution of higher education in the UK.
Please note the level of experience expected for these particular Fellowships. Applicants need not be of professorial standing but should “be able to demonstrate scholarship at the highest level” , and should be “well-established and distinguished”. You will need three referees (not from this institution) who are able to comment on your research record and standing and on the merit of the proposed research project.
You can find a list of Major Fellowships awarded in last year’s Call here: http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/templates/asset-relay.cfm?frmAssetFileID=1613
The Call opens fully in Feb and all info will be here: http://leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/MRF/MRF.cfm
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