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The Faraday Discovery Fellowships are prestigious long-term awards that will support emerging research leaders to undertake high-quality, original research. The programme is aimed at outstanding mid-career STEM researchers and will provide grants of up to £8m over a ten-year period to support the development of world-leading research groups in UK Universities.

This scheme is for:

Mid-Career Researchers are defined as those with 10*-20 years research experience post-PhD or equivalent research experience (*exceptional candidates with fewer years’ experience will be considered). Candidates who have had changes in discipline or research direction, or time working on industrial research, will be welcomed. As standard, career breaks and non-linear career paths will be taken into consideration. 

Candidates will need to be recognised research leaders within their field with experience of managing significant research grants as the Principal Investigator. Candidates should have an exceptional track record of outputs commensurate with their research experience and be able to demonstrate significant research contributions in the last 10 years. Candidates must be well-established internationally. 

The aims of the Faraday Discovery Fellowships are to:

The Royal Society recognises that diversity is essential for delivering excellence in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The Society wants to encourage applications from the widest range of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences to maximise innovation and creativity in science for the benefit of humanity. They regularly review and revise policies and processes to embed equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) principles in all aspects of the grant making process and ensure all talented applicants have an equitable chance to succeed as per the assessment criteria.

The awards will be made to a single PI but may include multiple collaborators. Where the research is interdisciplinary or requires collaboration with other research teams, the costs for such collaborations may also be included – this includes collaborations overseas and with industry.

Timeline: We run an internal sift for this fellowship opportunity, potential candidates should approach the fellowships team and their proposed host department as early as possible this to discuss the selection process. 

If you are interested in applying to hold a Fellowship at the ÒÁÈËÖ±²¥app, please do get in touch via fellowships@reading.ac.uk.

Please see the for the expected dates of future rounds.

Indicative timings for the next four rounds are listed below. Please note that these are subject to change so please check dates on the .