Postgraduate funding

Newton International Fellowships

Eligibility criteria

  • Open to residents of the following countries
    All Nationalities

  • - Applicants should have no more than 7 years of active full time postdoctoral experience at the time of application (discounting career breaks, but including teaching experience and/or time spent in industry).
    - Applicants in the final stages of their PhD will be accepted provided that the PhD will be completed (including viva) before the start date of the Fellowship. Confirmation of award of the PhD will be required before any Fellowship award is confirmed.
    - Applicants should be working outside the UK and should not hold UK citizenship at the time of application. Individuals already living, working or researching in the UK are not eligible to apply. Individuals working outside the UK but employed by a UK organisation are also not eligible to apply.
    - Contact between the UK Sponsor and Applicant prior to the application is essential. This contact should lead to a clearly defined and mutually-beneficial research project proposal. Please note that the two implementing academies will not be able to assist in locating a UK Sponsor.
    - Applicants must be competent in oral and written English. The UK Sponsor must confirm their competency on the application form and in their supporting statement.
    - Applications from individuals who have not studied or worked in the UK previously are encouraged as the scheme aims to establish new links between the applicant and the UK.
    - All applicants must be working and be based outside of the UK at the time of application. Applicants who completed their PhD at a UK organisation must have been working and based outside the UK for at least one year at the time of application. Applicants proposing to return to their UK PhD organisation and/or PhD supervisor will normally be considered to be ineligible and so applicants must have exceptional reasons for proposing to do so.
    - Proposed Fellowships must be carried out in the UK at the UK host organisation for the two year period. Applicants cannot conduct their research outside the UK but short fieldwork trips abroad may be possible where appropriate. Short fieldwork trips abroad must not normally total more than one month per annum. Please note that fieldwork is defined as “(practical) gathering of material or data specifically for the Newton Fellowship project”.
    - Applicants may only submit one application in a round. The application must be with only one coapplicant at a UK host organisation.
    For full criteria details please refer to the weblink provided below
  • Applicable subjects
    All Subjects

Application details

Applications may be submitted
from 31-Jan-2013 until 10-Apr-2013

Information about the funding
The Newton International Fellowships Scheme is an initiative of the UK's leading academies - the British Academy, The Royal Academy of Engineering, and the Royal Society. The Scheme has been established to select the very best early stage post-doctoral researchers from all over the world and enable them to work at UK research institutions for a period of two years.

The Fellowships cover the broad range of physical, natural and social sciences and the humanities.

Approximately 40 Newton Fellowships will be available in the 2013 round.

Objectives of the Newton International Fellowships Scheme
- To ensure the UK engages with the best post-doctoral researchers, across all disciplines of physical, natural and social sciences, and the humanities, from around the world.
- To provide an opportunity for post-doctoral researchers at an early career stage from any country outside the UK to work at a UK research institution for two years.
- To foster long-term relations between Newton Fellows and the UK research base through the establishment of an alumni programme for former Fellows of this Scheme. The alumni programme will include the possible provision of further funding for Newton Fellows for up to 10 years for follow-on activities, to enable links with UK based researchers to be maintained and developed. This is expected to facilitate, in the longer term, improved access to international centres of excellence for UK-based
researchers.

Specified use
They provide grants of £24,000 per annum to cover subsistence and up to £8,000 per annum to cover research expenses, plus a one-off relocation allowance of up to £2,000.

In addition, Newton Fellows may be eligible for follow-up funding of up to £6,000 per annum for up to 10 years following the completion of the Fellowship.

Application procedure
The current round opens for applications on 31 January 2013. The closing date for the round of applications is 10 April 2013*. *applicants are advised to submit their application for approval to the UK host organisation approver at least 5 working days before the round deadline i.e. by 3 April 2013

Applications for all Newton International Fellowships should be made online through the Royal Society's Electronic Grant Application and Processing (e-GAP2) system. Please visit http://www.newtonfellowships.org/how-to-apply.aspx for application details.


For full details about the Fellowship please refer to the link here: http://www.newtonfellowships.org/media/228/nif%202013%20scheme%20notes.pdf

Contact details

Newton International Fellowships
6-9 Carlton House Terrace
London SW1Y 5AG
Tel +44 (0)20 7451 2559
Email info@newtonfellowships.org
Web http://www.newtonfellowships.org

Funding provider
Newton International Fellowships

Please note the database is updated regularly but is a guide only and not a guarantee of funding nor an exhaustive list of all funding available.

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