The Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship is for outstanding scientists at an early stage of their career who have the potential to become leaders in their field but who also have a demonstrable need for a flexible working pattern or part time working due to personal circumstances, such as parenting/caring responsibilities or health issues. Applicants must be in the early stages of their career and have up to 6 years of actual research experience (career breaks and part-time work taken into consideration) since your PhD at the closing date of the round. Applicants must also not have a permanent academic position at the time of application or hold or have held a similar independent fellowship that allows you to establish a research group. Applicants can be of any nationality. Funding is available for 8 years and includes the applicant's salary and generous funding towards research expenses as outlined in the funder guidance/website. Applications are submitted through the Royal Society's application portal - Flexigrant.
Deadline and timescales (2023)
Applications are now closed for 2023, the next call is expected to be held in Summer 2024. Please email fellowships@physics.ox.ac.uk to register your interest if you'd like to be notified by email when the next round is announced. The below outlines the internal process from the 2023 call for information.
The internal EOI Deadline is the 30 August 2023. Applicants who are interested to apply through Oxford Physics are asked to send the following documents to fellowships@physics.ox.ac.uk by this date.
- One-page outline of the proposed research project
- CV
- Publication and output list
- Please cc in your Oxford Physics sponsor and let us know the name of your second reader for the proposal (a second internal academic).