ESRC Centre-UB Early Career Researcher Fellowships

Support for early career researcher fellows to advance their training in behavioural research with the Centre for National Training and Research Excellence in Understanding Behaviour (Centre-UB).

Centre-UB early career researcher fellows will develop their fellowship activities together with mentors from the University of Birmingham and a non-academic partner organisation. Throughout the fellowship, mentors from both the University of Birmingham and the partner organisation will support the development of the early career researcher fellow to achieve the aims of their fellowship.   

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.

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 but 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.