Deadline: April 9, 2025
Applications are open for the Royal Society Industry Fellowship 2025/2026. The Industry Fellowship is part of the Royal Society’s wider Science and Industry Programme, which strives to promote the value and importance of science by connecting academia, industry and government.
The Industry Fellowship scheme is open to academic and industrial researchers from early to senior career stages based in the UK.
The aims of the scheme are to:
- Support the mobility of excellent academic or industrial researchers between the two sectors in the UK, across the natural sciences.
- Enable the Industry Fellow to develop and establish collaborative links between the academic and industrial organisations, which may lead to longer term collaborations.
- Support the career development of the Industry Fellow, and their team, through the cross-sector collaborative research experience afforded by the fellowship.
- Enhance knowledge exchange in science and technology between industry and academia.
Benefits
Applicants may apply for up to a maximum award value of £168,000 over the award period. Awards can be for any period up to two years full-time or a maximum of four years pro rata (i.e. an award could be held at 50% part-time for four years), enabling Industry Fellows to maintain links with their employing institution more easily.
Funds can cover:
- The applicant’s basic salary while on secondment. The employing organisation will continue to pay national insurance and pension contributions.
- Research expenses which may be claimed up to the value of £4,000 per year, and may be used to support summer studentships.
Eligibility
This scheme is for you if:
- You have a PhD or are of equivalent standing in your profession;
- You hold a permanent post or have an ‘open-ended contract’ in either a university, not-for-profit research organisation or industry in the UK;
- You are at a stage in your career when you would particularly benefit from establishing or strengthening personal or corporate links between academia and industry, as a foundation for long-term collaboration and development;
- Your research is within the Royal Society’s remit of natural sciences, which includes but is not limited to biological research and biomedical sciences, chemistry, engineering, mathematics and physics.
Application
For more information, visit Royal Society Industry Fellowship.
