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Training & capacity building

Fellowships

Funded research positions giving early-career scientists protected time, supervision and laboratory access to do serious work.

Why fellowships

Protected time is the scarce resource

Most early-career researchers do not lack ability or ideas. What they lack is uninterrupted, funded time to pursue a question properly, with access to instrumentation and someone experienced to check their reasoning.

A fellowship supplies exactly that combination. Fellows work on a defined research question within the Center's programmes, with a named supervisor, laboratory access and the expectation of a disseminated output. The point is to produce a researcher as well as a result.

What a fellowship provides

The elements of the programme

A defined research question

Fellows work on a real question within our programmes, agreed at the outset, rather than assisting on whatever is available.

Named supervision

A supervisor with explicit responsibility for the fellow's scientific development, not just their outputs.

Laboratory access

Access to the facilities and instrumentation the research question requires.

Methods & ethics training

Structured training in research methods, ethics, data integrity and regulatory requirements.

Route to publication

Support in writing up and submitting work, with authorship reflecting genuine contribution.

A next step

Fellowships are designed so that completing one opens a realistic onward path in research.

Fellowship terms and openings will be published here

Eligibility criteria, duration, stipend, application deadlines and currently open fellowships will be published here once each round is confirmed. We will not publish figures or dates that applicants might rely on before they are settled. To be notified when a round opens, register your interest below.

Register interest

Tell us you would like to hear about fellowships

Send us a short note about your background and research interests, and we will contact you when a relevant round opens.

Other ways into research at the Center

If a fellowship is not the right fit right now, our internships and mentorship programme may be.