Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships 2025

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships 2025 - School of Economics & Finance at Queen Mary University

The School of Economics & Finance (SEF) at Queen Mary University of London encourages outstanding postdoctoral scholars to apply to the 2025 round of the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship Scheme. An internal selection process for this scheme is now open in order to identify a maximum of three candidates to be supported with their application. 

Applications should align with the SEF five research groups, Applied Micro, Econometrics, Finance, Macroeconomics and Micro Theory.

Initial enquires can be addressed to econ-research@qmul.ac.uk 

 

Aim of the Award

The Fellowships are intended to assist those at a relatively early stage of their academic careers, but who have a proven record of research.  The intention is for Fellows to undertake a significant piece of publishable research during the tenure of the award, and the project put forward should therefore not be a reworking or mere extension of the candidate’s doctoral research project. The call will fund approximately 145 Fellowships across the UK.

 

Level of grant and tenure 

Fellowships are normally tenable for three years on a full-time basis, but requests to hold the award part-time over a proportionately longer period will be considered if this is appropriate for the nature of the research proposed and the career development of the individual. Fellowships will commence between 1 September 2025 and 1 May 2026.

These fellowships provide three years of full-time salary and £6,000 p/a research expenses (up to £18,000) over three years.

For full information about the scheme, please refer to the funder guidance. 

 

Eligibility requirements 

Applications are welcome by candidates who hold a doctorate by the time they take up the Fellowship and not more than four years prior to the application closing date on 20 February 2025.

Candidates who are or have been registered for a doctorate at any time may apply only if they have submitted their doctoral thesis for viva voce examination from and after 20 February 2021 and by the closing date of 4pm on 20 February 2025.

• Applicants must either hold a degree (any degree) from a UK higher education institution at the time of taking up the Fellowship or at the time of the application deadline must hold an academic position in the UK (e.g. fixed-term lectureship, fellowship) which commenced no less than 4 months prior to the closing date. Those who do not hold a UK degree and whose UK academic position commenced after October 2024 are not eligible to apply.
• Candidates who hold a full-time permanent academic position or are receiving existing funding like an equivalent three-year post-doctoral position are not eligible to apply. 
• Candidates who at the time of commencing the Fellowship are registered for or are intending to register for degrees, professional or vocational qualifications are not eligible.
• A candidate may submit only one application per year. Previously unsuccessful applicants can reapply. Candidates may not apply for both an Early Career Fellowship and a Study Abroad Studentship in the same year.

All applicants should read the full eligibility notes before submitting and application.

 

Applying for this scheme through School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University

The School of Economics and Finance (SEF) is one of the UK’s leading economics and finance departments, having ranked 4th for research output and 8th overall in the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF 2021). It is one of the leading departments in Europe in the areas of both applied and theoretical economics & finance. Its expertise spans most key areas, including, prominently, household, and corporate finance, political economy, labour, public, development, and health, business cycle and financial econometrics. It is home to more than 40 research active faculty, who are recognised leaders in their field. SEF is located within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences which comprises nine Schools and is hosted in the new Graduate centre, with state-of-the-art research facilities. QMUL campus is in Mile end, in the vibrant London East End.

 

SEF is able to support a maximum of three applications and will offer individual support and feedback in preparing applications to candidates selected to be put forward to the funder following our internal section process, details of which are below.

 

Candidates are strongly advised to contact the members of staff closest to their research interests (email addresses are available on our website). Please note that we do not match prospective applicants with mentors. Initial enquiries can be directed to our Research Team, (econ-research@qmul.ac.uk)

 

The application should include:

• A bullet point list that confirms you meet the Leverhulme Trust’s eligibility requirements. These can be found on the Trust’s website.
• An academic CV (not more than 2 pages of A4) indicating your previous qualifications, publications and any other academic or public engagement activities. Note that candidates should demonstrate a record of publications appropriate to the stage of their career, but at least one publication will be expected.
• An outline research proposal. This should include: title, non-technical abstract (250 words), statement of current and past research (250 words), detailed statement of proposed research including aims, methodology and outcomes (no more than 2 pages of A4). Please refer to the Leverhulme Guidelines for additional help on what to include in this statement.
• Proposed mentor within SEF and a statement as to why SEF/QMUL would be a good match.

 

These documents should be sent as a single pdf to (econ-research@qmul.ac.uk) by 8^th November 2024.

 

Your application will be considered internally by the School of Economics & Finance, and you will be notified whether you have been selected to submit your application to the Leverhulme Trust by the end of December 2024. Submission to the Leverhulme Trust must take place by the 20 February 2025.