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 link  – 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 applicant’s 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. …
Applications are invited for a fully-funded 3-year PhD starting in October 2026, on Assessment of the sources, transport and fate of PFAS in soil, sediment, surface and groundwater and biota in England, with a focus on the River Thames catchment. The PhD will be based in the Faculty of Science …
Round 2 and 3 closing dates: 25 Nov 2025, 25 Feb 2026 The Royal Society‘s Faraday Discovery Fellowships are prestigious long-term awards that support the most talented research leaders to undertake high-quality, original research. The Accelerated International Route, established in 2025, is intended for outstanding international researchers nominated by their UK …
The Royal Society‘s Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship aims seeks to provide opportunities for experienced senior and mid-career researchers to focus on full-time research for up to one year, by relieving them of all teaching, administrative and pastoral care duties during that period. Preference will be given to candidates who, …
Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowships are open to experienced researchers, particularly those who are or have been prevented by routine duties from completing a programme of original research. Priority will be given to applicants whose teaching and administrative duties have significantly impacted their ability to undertake research in the three years …
The Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (DHF) programme aims to support outstanding early career scientists who require a flexible working pattern due to personal circumstances, such as caring responsibilities and/or health-related conditions. The programme aims to enable the next generation of research leaders to: Build an independent research career at a UK …
Deadline: 23 Oct 2025 This scheme is part of the Royal Society’s Industry programme, and facilitates short dynamic engagements between scientists employed in industry or academia (including postdoctoral researchers), enabling the parties to collaborate on a mutually beneficial project. Awards can be held full time for 3-6 months, or 50% …
Funder webinar: 7 Oct 2025 12-13:00 UK Register here Submission deadline: 19 Nov 2025 The Royal Society’s Career Development Fellowship scheme for 2026 is a 4-year programme that aims to support retention in STEM of researchers from underrepresented groups, particularly those making the transition from postgraduate to early postdoctoral stages. …
The TERC Better Water for All Network, led by Dr Bing Guo of the University of Surrey, is seeking two Network Managers. This new Network is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) as part of its Tomorrow’s engineering research challenges initiative. It is one of six …
The Royal Society’s Industry Fellowship scheme is open to UK-based academic and industrial researchers from early to senior career stages. The scheme aims to: Support the mobility of excellent researchers between the two sectors in the UK across the natural sciences Enable the Industry Fellow to develop and establish collaborative …
