Candidates must have been awarded their PhD – or equivalent such as postgraduate MD/DM for clinical applicants – prior to the closing date for registering interest in the scheme.
Before you apply, please ensure you have completed the following mandatory steps:
- Identify your host school or faculty from the list below
- Contact the identified school contact to discuss your research proposal – see list below for details
- Ensure your proposed research aligns with identified strategic priority areas for your host school/department
- (When applications are open) Follow the 'Apply now' link to the online form for your host school or faculty (which is listed below) and ensure you upload your CV and research proposal. The format of the CV/Research Proposal is provided in the individual application links below
Faculty of Arts
All proposed work programmes should be interdisciplinary in nature and have the potential to lead to large, collaborative funding bids in the medium term. They can be located in any discipline, but should be aligned with at least one of the faculty’s strategic priorities, notably:
- Black-centred research, including Black studies
- Arts and computing, including Digital Humanities
- Creative and Cultural Industries
- Health Humanities
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Faculty of Engineering
We invite applications from all areas of engineering research. For this year’s call we are prioritising applications in the areas of:
- Electrical machines for sustainable transportation
- 3D Printing of advanced biologics-based healthcare devices
We have identified the following strategic areas where applications are particularly encouraged:
- Sustainable, low carbon and zero carbon process engineering
- Low carbon construction and civil engineering
- Climate resilience in the built environment
- Recycling, re-use and circular economy
- Future and renewable power systems
- Net zero transport and transportation electrification
- Digital manufacturing
- Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning in Engineering
- Smart buildings and structures
We encourage applications from excellent early career researchers to all of our research groups.
We strongly suggest you familiarise yourself with our structure, teaching and research.
As an applicant, you are advised to think in detail about how your research proposal and future work fits within our faculty and identify the best research group for your research.
Once you have selected an appropriate research group to host your fellowship, you must contact the head of this research group. You can find their contact details on the 'Meet the team' page for each group.
Please approach the head of the research group to:
- discuss your fellowship
- gain their confirmation of support for your application
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Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
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We welcome applications that align with our research themes and groups. In particular, we encourage translational science applications in the following priority areas linked to our National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre*:
- Mental health and technology
- MR and Precision Imaging
- Gastroenterology and hepatology
- Hearing
- Respiratory
- Musculoskeletal aging, surgery, injury and recovery
Nottingham research fellows have access to clinical patients at the following locations. Research fellowship applications are welcome that complement the research interests of these sites.
- The Queens Medical Centre and Major Trauma Centre
- Nottingham City Hospital
- The National Rehabilitation Centre
- University Hospitals Derby and Nottingham City Healthcare
Find more and contact theme leads at nottinghambrc.nihr.ac.uk. However, other research areas aligning to the School of Medicine are also welcome.
*The NIHR’s 20 Biomedical Research Centres (BRCs) are collaborations between world-leading universities and NHS organisations that bring together academics and clinicians to translate lab-based scientific breakthroughs into potential new treatments, diagnostics and medical technologies.
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We encourage applications in the following priority areas:
- Mental health
- Rehabilitation (particularly research aligned to the National Rehabilitation Centre)
- Maternal health and wellbeing
- Palliative and end of life care
- Children and Young People’s healthcare
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We encourage applications in the following priority areas:
- Immunology of Infectious Diseases
- RNA technologies/therapeutics
- Biomaterials based therapeutics for inflammation
- Human metabolism and integrative physiology in healthy ageing
- Engineering Biology
- Spatial organisation of cell signalling
- Human Developmental Anatomy
- Vertebrate genomics
- Microbiology (anti-microbial resistance or microbiome)
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We encourage applications in the following priority areas:
- Diagnostics and Therapeutics – in particular RNA therapeutics
- Infection and Immunity – in particular viral immunology
- Sheep health and welfare
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Faculty of Science
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We encourage applications in the following priority areas:
- Climate change
- Sustainable agriculture and food production systems
- Engineering biology
- Food and nutrition for all
- Animal biotechnology
- Microbiology
- Digital agriculture/smart farm/Agri-tech
- World leading fundamental biosciences
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We encourage applications in the following priority areas:
- Experimental science of surfaces and interfaces
- Experimental methods of imaging and analysis
- Heterogenous catalysis (including heterogeneous electro- and photocatalysis)
- Coordination, supramolecular or organometallic chemistry for functional materials
- Inorganic chemistry for hydrogen production, storage or utilisation
- Low-dimensional materials and colloids
- Functional devices
- Biocatalysis
- Biophysical chemistry/Biological NMR
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We encourage applications in the following priority areas:
- Embodied intelligence
- Cyber security
- Cyber health
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We encourage applications in the following priority areas:
- Biotherapeutics
- Anti-infective technologies
- Diagnostics and analytics
- Digital health
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We encourage applications in the following priority areas:
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We are open to considering applications from researchers in any area of psychology that complements or extends our existing research strengths.
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Faculty of Social Sciences
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We encourage applications in the following priority areas:
- International trade
- Microeconomics
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We encourage applications in the following priority areas:
- Disciplinary education (maths, languages, science)
- Educational Leadership and Management
- Higher, Adult and Vocational education
- International, Refugee and Migrant education
- Learning sciences
- Professional development of teachers and counsellors
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We encourage applications in the following priority areas:
- Human or physical geography, on topics that include:
- Environmental sustainability
- Geospatial analysis
- Meteorology
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We encourage applications in the following priority areas:
- Domestic criminal justice
- International commercial law
- Private law
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We encourage applications in the following priority areas:
- Research into improving work and employment in health and social care to address the workforce crisis
- Digital innovation/data analysis for business
- Levelling up, SMEs resilience and climate risks
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Social Care Work and Employment enquiries
Simon Bishop
simon.bishop@nottingham.ac.uk
Levelling up, SMEs and climate risks enquiries
Meryem Duygun
meryem.duygun@nottingham.ac.uk
We encourage applications in the following priority areas:
- Cyber security
- Political communication
- Chinese security, defence and/or foreign policy
- Democratisation and representation in areas currently under-represented in the school, especially the United States Canada and Latin America
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We encourage applications in the following priority areas:
- Sociology – including but not limited to:
- social inequalities
- work and organisations
- sociology of health and illness
- Criminology – including but not limited to:
- crime and intersectionality
- drugs and crime
- developmental criminology
- policing
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