Fellowships
STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship (ERF) Information
STFC ERF applications are subject to a competitive internal selection process, because universities are allocated a quota by STFC. We can usually support 1 STFC ERF application per year.
Our School’s internal deadline for the 2027 round is expected to be published in spring 2027.
General Fellowship Information
The Solar and Magnetospheric Theory Group has had continued success in supporting fellowship applications, and many of its current staff members have been fellowship holders in the past.
If you are interested in applying for a fellowship hosted by the Solar and Magnetospheric Theory Group, please contact Dr Alex Russell or the academic staff member closest to your research area to discuss options and application procedures.
Apart from possible application deadlines by the funder, many fellowships are demand-managed by our School and the University and there may thus be internal deadlines and selection processes as well. There may also be eligibility criteria that applicants have to satisfy to be able to apply. It is therefore advisable to contact us well in advance of any deadlines.
A non-exhaustive list of availabe fellowships is provided below:
- STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowships (ERF)
Subject to quota (see above) - Royal Society University Research Fellowships
No quota, but needs School support (more information below) - UKRI Future Leader Fellowships
- Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships
- Royal Astronomical Society Research and Norman Lockyer Fellowships
- Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellowships
- Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships
Royal Society University Research Fellowships (URFs) and Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships (DHFs)
The Royal Society URFs usually have an early- to mid-September deadline, whereas the deadline for the DHFs tends to be a bit later (for exact information, see here). We would encourage anybody interested in submitting an application with the SMTG as host to contact us as early as possible to see whether an application would be supported at School and University level.
Other Fellowships
Please contact us as well in advance of any deadlines by the funders to make sure that you do not miss any internal deadlines due to demand management at School and University level.