Deadline: 16 June 2026 This funding opportunity aims to: develop, retain, attract and sustain research and innovation talent in the UK foster new research and innovation career paths including those at the academic, business and interdisciplinary boundaries, and facilitate movement of people between sectors provide sustained funding and resources for …
Deadline: 18 March 2026 This Postdoctoral Fellowship provides the opportunity for researchers to conduct collaborative research activities with leading research groups at Japanese universities and research institutions for visits of between 12 to 24 months. Applicants should be UK residents currently based at a UK university or research institution. Applicants …
Deadline: 22 April 2026 Ā This fellowship provides support for researchers wishing to undertake independent research within a host laboratory and gain leadership skills as part of the transition to fully independent research leaders. Applicants must provide strong evidence of working towards this goal, demonstrating an upward trajectory to pursuing independent …
Closing date:Ā 15 March 2026 The Newton International Fellowship (NIF) programme provides support for outstanding non-UK ECR applicants to conduct research in the UK.Ā The programme seeks to assist those who wish to make a first step towards developing an independent research career through gaining international experience. The fellowships enable …
Supergen Bioenergy is advertising two posts working on the wider economic development impact of sustainable bioenergy and bio products in the UK. Both posts offer opportunities for flexible types of employment including secondment, job share and part-time working. Economic Development Lead: Bioenergy and Bioproducts The post-holder will work with researchers …
Closing date: 16 Feb 2026 The Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) Enterprise Fellowship is a twelve-month programme that supports talented researchers and graduates to transform innovations into disruptive spinouts and graduate startups. The programme is aimed at: University researchers wishing to spin out from UK universities and research institutes Recent …
A new project in cooperation between the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Vienna (Werner Fuchs, Markus Neureiter) and the BEST Competence Center (Bernhard Drosg, Katharina Ludwig) will start in April 2026. The topic of the COMET module ELF4Green is ‘Electrofermentation as an advanced tool for targeted bioproduction’. …
UKRI has now announced the successful bids for two flagship doctoral training initiatives designed to strengthen the UKās talent pipeline. On behalf of our colleagues at the Environmental Biotechnology Innovation Centre (EBIC), one of EBNet’s successor organisations, we are delighted to share its new programme in Engineering Biology for Environmental …
Deadline: Mon 19 Jan 2026 at 09:00 UK The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Pre/Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers (Short Term) provides the opportunity for short-term visits for UK, European, North American and Canadian researchers ordinarily based in the UK or Ireland to carry out cooperative research …
Application Deadline: 10 Dec 2025 This fellowship is an opportunity for those in our Environmental Biotechnology and Social Sciences WG (EBSS WG), and for other EBNet members with an interest in social sciences or other arts and humanities aspects. It allows researchers based outside Japan to conduct collaborative work with …
Technically this isn’t a Biotechnology PhD, but we are including it due to the wastewater linkĀ Ā –Ā and the strong need for integrated thinking across disciplines if we are to achieve more sustainable systems: The Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Green Industrial Futures is now recruiting its third cohort …
Application deadline: 27 Nov 2025 Start date: Oct 2026 This is fully-funded ( 4-year) opportunity to work on Examination of intermediate compounds in anaerobic digestate and their effect on phosphorous removal using electrocoagulation. The work will extend current research on industrial biotechnology to investigate nutrient removal and recovery from anaerobic …
The Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellowships are intended to assist senior researchers who have retired or partially retired from an academic post to complete a research project and prepare the results for publication The primary aim of the scheme is to support the facilitation, integration or completion of the applicantās own …
The Leverhulme Trust‘s Visiting Professorship scheme is for UK institutions to invite an eminent senior professor from overseas, to bring genuinely novel expertise and enhance the skills and knowledge of academic staff and students in an underrepresented area in the UK. Priority will be given to new or recent collaborations …
The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 awards a total of around 35 postgraduate Fellowships and Scholarships a year, for advanced study and research in science, engineering, the built environment and design. It also makes a small number of Special Awards to support projects aligned with its overall goals. …
