Apply for a Centre-UB early career researcher fellowship to:
- work together with the University of Birmingham and partner organisations to capitalise the knowledge exchange and impact of your behavioural research
- continue your development as a behavioural researcher and conduct further behavioural research
- promote a positive research culture and a commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
- gain vital experience of developing and applying behavioural research outside of academic settings and develop skills aimed at translating research into real-world benefit
Early career fellows are an essential part of the Centre-UB mission to develop the next generation of behavioural researchers who are skilled at translating research into real-world benefit and collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders.
Centre-UB will support their development by providing a training environment characterised by excellent science, cutting edge methods, interdisciplinarity, and translation through our critical mass of world-leading and internationally excellent research conducted by our behavioural researchers.
Throughout their fellowship, early career fellows will work closely with a non-academic partner organisation. Through co-development and mentoring, these partner organisations will help fellows to gain vital experience of developing and applying behavioural research outside of academic settings.
Fellowships are expected to contain the following components:
- translation of behavioural research to knowledge exchange and impact: at least 25% of fellowship
- development as behavioural researcher: at least 25% of the fellowship
- conducting further behavioural research (optional): no more than 50% of fellowship
These components are interdependent and should be embedded in a coherent way across the fellowship, and the activities should be underpinned by the fellow’s career aspirations.
See more information about the aims and objectives of the fellowship programme, eligibility criteria and the application process.
Duration
The fellowships provide funding and support for up to one year full-time, or up to two years part-time to give early career researcher fellows time to prepare for a successful career in research, either within or beyond academia.
Part-time grants are intended for applicants whose normal working hours are part-time and not for applicants who wish to hold the fellowship and continue other employment.
The exception to this are applicants whose PhD was undertaken on a part-time basis alongside permanent part-time employment. Applicants in this position can continue to hold their part-time employment alongside the fellowship. All other fellows must spend 100% of their working time (whether full-time or part-time) on the fellowship and cannot take any secondary paid employment during the course of the grant.
Projects must start by 1 October 2025.
Funding available
Centre-UB will award eight early career researcher fellowships per cohort. The second cohort will start in October 2025.
The Centre-UB early career researcher fellowship will cover salary and associated costs and up to £10,000 for all other costs (for example, research costs, travel and dissemination).
See more information on funding (PDF, 362KB).
ESRC will fund 80% of the full economic cost of the proposals submitted.
