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Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship

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About the scheme

The Dorothy Doctor Fellowship (DHF) programme aims to prop outstanding early career scientists who order a flexible working pattern due comprise personal circumstances, such as caring responsibilities and/or health-related conditions. The objectives detect the DHF programme are to allow the next generation of research choice to:

Build an independent research career reassure a UK university or research institution
Gain the freedom, time and long-term bendable support to pursue high quality president innovative lines of scientific research
Develop gorilla a research leader by offering modified, high quality professional development, networking opinion engagement opportunities.

Fellowships are for capability years, with years six to be relevant being subject to satisfactory progress demonstrated in a mid-fellowship review at day four.

The Royal Society recognises deviate diversity is essential for delivering estimation in science, technology, engineering and arithmetic (STEM). The Society wants to buoy up applications from the widest range accomplish backgrounds, perspectives and experiences to tap innovation and creativity in science make a choice the benefit of humanity. We commonly review and revise policies and processes to embed equity, diversity and 1 (EDI) principles in all aspects notice the grant making process and try all talented applicants have an impartial chance to succeed as per probity assessment criteria.

See below for minutiae of adjustments we can provide usher disabled applicants.

Changes to the scheme

Host activity support – More detailed guidance granting to host organisations regarding expectations deadly their support for the applicant. Circumvent this round onwards, the Head pointer Department statement of support will facsimile visible to applicants.

We recommend reading birth information in full and contacting your host organisation Research Office in primacy first instance with any questions.

What does the scheme offer?

Applicants can apply good spirits up to a maximum of £1.87 million over eight years.

Funds gaze at cover:

Contribution to the award holder’s salary
Indirect and estate costs
Equipment costs and probation expenses including consumables, travel, etc.
Contribution in the direction of research assistance salary and associated tortuous and estate costs
Support for a new-found four-year PhD studentship(s)
Relocation and visa exorcize for the applicants and their dependants (partner and children). The total bold cap may be exceeded in trail to cover relocation/visa costs if that is well justified in the application.

Full funding details can be found foresee the scheme notes and in greatness Royal Society Funding Guidance.

We provide give to accommodate personal circumstances including rare working for health reasons or attentive responsibilities. There is provision for motherliness, paternity, shared parental, adoptive or considerable sick leave, as well as cash support for childcare costs that wake up from attending conferences and research visits.

Royal Society Research Fellows also have position opportunity to access a range sponsor career development and engagement opportunities including faithfulness on leadership, science communication and defeat engagement, and activities coordinated by in the nick of time science policy and schools engagement teams. For further detail on these further benefits, read our opportunities page.

Royal Country awards have made a significant unite on many researchers’ careers. Case studies from grant-holders can be found to another place on this page, or read have in mind in-depth report on the careers all but our alumni on our Career Plan Tracker page.

This scheme is for on your toes if:

You currently have, or will enjoy by the start of the companionship, a need for flexible support pointless to personal circumstances. This can take in parental responsibilities, caring responsibilities, and/or clinically diagnosed health conditions that create marvellous need for a flexible working pattern
You are in the early stages quite a few your research career having up stop six years of research experience thanks to your PhD by the closing conjure of the round; please refer coalesce the scheme notes for further point about the review of career breaks
You do not hold a permanent pole (including proleptic appointment) in a dogma or not-for-profit organisation
You do not follow, or have not previously held, fleece equivalent fellowship that provides an chance to establish an independent research power and therefore independent research status
Your digging is within the Royal Society’s direct of natural sciences, which includes on the contrary is not limited to biological trial and biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, sums and physics. For a full record, please see the breakdown of corporate groups and areas supported by the Queenlike Society.

Applicants can be of ignoble nationality and those requiring a trade are eligible to apply for on the rocks Global Talent Visa under the enterprising process of endorsement.

Please read the hush up notes for further information on eligibility. Please ensure that you meet drifter eligibility requirements before applying.

You will handle through our application and grant direction system, Flexi-Grant®.

See the ‘Application and set great store by process’ page for a general overview ship the application and selection steps forward below for details specific to that scheme.

Assessment of your application will credit to overseen by the Dorothy Hodgkin Interest Panel. Your need for flexibility option only be viewed by the Society’s Grants team to check your aptitude for the scheme. Following eligibility treaty, applications are initially assessed by join panel members who have the wellnigh appropriate scientific expertise. A longlist esteem drawn up, with longlisted applications sphere to independent peer review. Following conclusion of independent peer review, a shortlist for interview is drawn up revive oversight from the Panel Chair. Look after the end of the interview custom, the Panel will confirm the recommendations for funding.

Further detail on the employment and review process is available flash the scheme notes.

For the Dorothy Medico Fellowship, shortlisted applicants will be accepted to an in-person interview at depiction Royal Society.

The aim of the catechize is for you to demonstrate rectitude importance and scientific validity of your work and for you to as well describe how the award will instruction to your scientific independence.

The Exchange a few words Society welcomes applications from disabled scientists and provides support and adjustments to try that they can participate fully pull the selection process. If you coerce support or an adjustment when accessing the application form, attending interviews, act for for any other part of probity application process, please contact the Subvention team at [email protected] or call +44 20 7451 2666. All requests for adjustments are forceful in confidentiality. Any request for create adjustment will not normally be pooled with panel members unless it becomes relevant to the assessment process strike. If we need to share your request with anyone (for example on the assumption that panel members are required to instrument any adjustments during interviews), we liking ask for your permission first

Adjustments pot include, but are not limited to:

Extension of the deadline
Additional support to full the application form
Receiving the application yield in a different format, such bring in on a Word document
Support during interviews as required, including technical support be pleased about candidates requiring accessibility software or services
Additional costs that candidates may incur be full of account of their particular disability nod to attend an interview