Royal Society Short Industry Fellowship 2026-27
Royal Society
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About This Scholarship
The Short Industry Fellowship scheme enables scientists employed in industry or academia and their postdoctoral researchers to have shorter, more dynamic engagements between academia and industry on mutually beneficial collaborative projects. This scheme supports mobility of excellent researchers between UK academic and industry sectors while enabling them to initiate and develop collaborative links that may lead to longer-term collaborations.
What This Scholarship Covers
- Basic salary while on secondment
- Research expenses up to £1,000, provision for maternity
- Paternity
- Shared parental
- Adoptive or extended sick leave
- Financial support for childcare costs
Who Can Apply
- 1 Hold a PhD or equivalent standing in your profession
- 2 Hold a permanent or fixed-term position (with end date after the expected end of the fellowship) in a UK university, not-for-profit research organisation, or UK industry
- 3 Research must be within the Royal Society's remit of natural sciences
- 4 Must be based in the UK
- 5 Award must involve mobility between sectors (UK private industry and UK university or not-for-profit research organisation)