Royal Society - Wolfson Fellowship

Research

What?

The Royal Society Wolfson Fellowships programme will enable UK Universities and Research Institutions to attract talented international researchers to the UK’s scientific community, through one of two complementary routes.

One of those routes is a five-year Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship, which will focus entirely on recruitment, enabling UK institutions to enhance their offering with a £300,000 fellowship award to international research leaders wishing to relocate to the UK.

The objectives of the Royal Society Wolfson Fellowships are to:

• enable UK universities and research institutions to strategically recruit and attract outstanding research leaders to the UK from overseas by offering long-term support and flexible funding to conduct high-quality research
• strengthen research and help build a critical mass of excellence in the UK’s best university departments and research institutions in fields considered to be strategically important by the institution

This scheme provides up to five years of funding. Up to £300,000 can be requested.

Funds can cover:

• Salary Enhancement – The institution may include a salary enhancement for the researcher. This will be limited to a maximum of 20% of the total salary
• Research expenses – Including consumables, travel, small pieces of equipment of up to £10,000, and other appropriate and justified costs (including visa costs and fieldwork)
• Research assistance
• PhD studentship(s)
• Relocation and visa costs for Royal Society Wolfson Fellows and their dependents (partner and children). The total grant cap may be exceeded to cover relocation/visa costs if this is well justified in the application

  

Who?

• You are a mid- or senior career researcher, with a proven track record for high-quality scientific research, which may include, as appropriate: a strong publication record, being invited to conferences as keynote speaker and evidence of scientific leadership and/or supervising or mentoring junior researchers
• You are currently based outside the UK and have received a firm offer of employment from the UK host organisation. Nominations will not be accepted for researchers wishing to move between UK institutions
• Your research is within the Royal Society’s remit of natural sciences, which includes but is not limited to biological research and biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics. For a full list, please see the breakdown of subject groups and areas supported by the Royal Society.

Applicants can be of any nationality and those requiring a visa are eligible to apply for a Global Talent Visa under the fast-track process of endorsement.
  

Application?

Researchers must be nominated by a representative of the host institution before they are able to apply for the Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship.

You can find more information about the application and assessment process here.
  

Regulations?

The Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship Scheme Notes
  

More information?

You can find more information on The Royal Society website.

Please always contact research@uhasselt.be if you want to apply

Deadline

04.09.2025

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