Fellowship opportunities

Our postdoctoral fellowships represent a fantastic career development opportunity. All Fellows have the opportunity to be transferred to an open-ended lecturing contract, subject to performance and strategic fit.

Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellowships

• Sensors and Sensors Systems (Latest call is closed.)
• Synthetic Biology (in partnership with the College of Medical, Veterinary & Life Sciences)

Leadership Fellows - bring your fellowship to Glasgow

If you wish to bring your external fellowship to Glasgow, we are also offering start-up grants (equipment and graduate students) through the Leadership Fellows scheme. A list of external funders is provided below. 

For informal enquiries you can contact Sara.Diegoli@glasgow.ac.uk or Lynne.Brown@glasgow.ac.uk.

External funders 

The main funders of postdoctoral fellowships for the UK are:

• Carnegie Trust for Scotland (No open calls)
• Engineering & Physical Sciences
• European Research Council 
• EU funding: Marie Curie
• Leverhulme Trust (Next call opens in January 2013, with deadline of 7th March 2013)
• Natural Environment Research Council
• Royal Society
• Royal Society of Edinburgh
• Science & Technologies Facilities Council