Fellowships

Winning a fellowship is an exciting first step to embarking on an independent career and leading your own research team. These pages provide information about fellowships with relevance to early career researchers within the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. 

Writing fellowship applications takes significant amounts of time and energy. We encourage you to discuss your fellowship application with senior colleagues well in advance of the submission date, often up to a year before, and to choose the right fellowship to fit your research niche and career stage.

The University  has extensive mentoring and academic development programmes and dedicated resources to help you craft your proposal. These can be found at the Institute for Academic Development (IAD), who offer workshops and training in fellowship application writing.

IAD Funding workshops

IAD Funding resources

Training: Funded Research - Pathways to Academic Independence (P&M login required)

Types of fellowship

These include:

• External fellowships
• Internal fellowships
• Career break fellowships
• Post-doctoral fellowships
• Travelling, training fellowships
• Small grants and pump-priming awards

**PLEASE NOTE THE INFORMATION ON THIS PAGE IS NOT EXHAUSTIVE AND YOU SHOULD ALSO CONSULT OTHER RESOURCES TO FIND SUITABLE FUNDING/FELLOWSHIP SCHEMES

Further resources

A wide range of further resources, including examples of successful fellowship applications, information on types of funding, and how to find your local funding administrators are available at the Edinburgh Research Office pages, and in particular their pages on winning research funding.

Edinburgh Research Office

A comprehensive guide to Fellowship Applications

Benefits of  Writing Fellowship Applications - a blog