Research fellowships
Independent fellowships
Relevant fellowships
Research fellowships are designed to promote and support research excellence in engineering. The Department and Imperial College London want to attract the best and most outstanding researchers, providing a high level of support and freedom to focus on the research through fellowships. Such prestigious research fellowship schemes provide the best opportunity to consolidate the standing of a researcher in their community and ultimately can help make the leap from a postdoctoral researcher to an academic lecturer.
Research fellowship schemes are very competitive as only a very small number can be supported by the Department and College. Hence, in order to be able to secure a sponsorship (as each application must be supported by a sponsor who is a senior, permanent member of academic staff) applicants need to go through our Departmental selection process first, which is explained in more detail in the next tab. Please do check the notes thoroughly.
These are the relevant fellowships of which we are currently aware:
- The Royal Society Fellowships
- The Wellcome Trust's Investigator Awards
- Sir Henry Dale Fellowships
- The Leverhulme Trust's Early Career Fellowship
- ERC Starting Independent Researcher Grants
- Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowships
- Imperial College Research Fellowships
- UKRI Fellowships: they are considered independent academic fellowships
- Royal Society University Research Fellowship
- BBSRC David Phillips Fellowship
- NERC Advanced and Postdoctoral Fellowships
Additional calls can be found here:
Application process
- To obtain the support of the Department of Bioengineering, the applicant should send their proposal along with all the material requested by the sponsor (except the detailed costing), as well as a CV to bg.fellowships@imperial.ac.uk.
- There are 3 deadlines per year: 15th March, 15th July and the 15th Nov. The applicant should apply before one of the three deadlines which are at least 6 weeks before the sponsor deadline.
- If the applicant is shortlisted, the applicant will be interviewed on the following dates: 27st March, 31st July, 4th December.
- If the applicant receives the support of the Department, that will leave two weeks for the applicant to revise their proposal with comments from the Department and to do a full costing.
- If mentors are needed for the sponsor’s call, the applicant should contact their potential mentors directly. This will need to be done before the Department deadline.
Postdoctoral research fellowships
Relevant fellowships
These are the relevant fellowships of which we are currently aware:
- Whitaker International Program
- Royal Commission 1851 Research Fellowships
- Daphne Jackson Fellowships
- Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowships for Career Development (IEF)
- Marie Curie Incoming International Fellowships (IIF)
Fellowships typically provide a great opportunity to build and enhance a researcher's career.
Application process
To obtain the support of the Department of Bioengineering, the applicant should send their proposal along with all the material requested by the sponsor (except the detailed costing), as well as a CV to bg.fellowships@imperial.ac.uk.
- There are 3 deadlines per year (Spring/Summer/August: the next one will be on the 9th July. The applicant should apply before one of the three deadlines which are at least 6 weeks before the sponsor deadline.
- If the applicant is shortlisted, the applicant will be interviewed on the following date: 30th July.
- If the applicant receives the support of the Department, that will leave at least two weeks for the applicant to revise their proposal with comments from the Department and to do a full costing.
- If mentors are needed for the sponsor’s call, the applicant should contact their potential mentors directly. This will need to be done before the Department deadline.