Funding
- Childcare Supplementary Grants
The London Mathematical Society provides a grant of up to £200 for mathematicians in the UK to aid them with the financial costs incurred as a result of childcare whilst attending conferences and research meetings. For additional information, please click here.
- L’Oréal UK and Ireland Fellowships for Women is Science
These fellowships are aimed at promoting, enhancing and encouraging the contribution of women in the UK and Ireland currently involved in a research career in the area of the life and physical sciences. The 2013 applications open on the 1st February 2013. For additional information, please click here.
- The Daphne Jackson Trust
The Daphne Jackson Trust is an independent charity providing flexible, part-time, paid fellowships to scientists, engineers and technologists. It is suitable for applicants that have decided to take a career break for at least two years for family, caring or health related reasons. Fellowships are typically two years in length and based at universities and industrial laboratories throughout the UK. For additional information, please click here.
- The European Research Council (ERC) Funding Schemes
The European Research Council provide five funding schemes depending on the level of post PhD experience you have. The schemes are open to applicants of all ages and nationalities wishing to conduct their frontier research in the 27 EU Member States or associated countries. For additional information, please click here.
- The Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
This scheme is aimed at scientists at an early stage of their career in need of a more flexible working pattern as a result of personal circumstances resulting from parenting, caring responsibilities or health issues. Applications from females are welcome for this particular fellowship. The closing date for applications is the 10th January 2013. For additional information, please click here.
- The Royal Society Rosalind Franklin Award
Applications for this award open on the 30th November 2012. The grant of £30,000 is awarded to someone who can demonstrate how they have made an outstanding contribution to any area of science, technology, engineering or mathematics. For additional information, please click here. To access the first Northern Ireland version of the WITS Newsletter please click here.
