The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) at Lancaster University is now inviting expressions of interest from outstanding early career researchers seeking support for their application to the Leverhulme Trust's Early Career Fellowship scheme 2025.  Details of the funding opportunity and eligibility criteria are given below.

 

The Global Religions subject area is interested in nominating outstanding candidates working on any area of religion, and would particularly welcome those working on topics involving women and religion, decolonising religion, religion and the Global South, and religion and storytelling.  In line with our longstanding institutional commitments to interdisciplinarity, we are particularly enthusiastic about work which advance scholarly understandings in ways that exceed a single field or discipline.

 

The Global Religions subject area is a comprised of

Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad

Professor Chris Partridge

Dr Bihani Sarkar

                Dr Shuruq Naguib

Dr Brian Black

Dr Alyaa Ebbiary

                Dr Gavin Hyman

Dr Emmanuel Ossai

 

Those seeking to apply should contact Professor Christopher Macleod, Head of Department, with (i) a CV, (ii) the title of the intended project, (ii) a 500-word description of the project (including aims, objectives, methodology and outcomes), and (iv) the name of a proposed mentor.  Please email ppr@lancaster.ac.uk with the title ‘Leverhulme Expression of Interest: Global Religion by 1^st November 2024, 5pm.

 

 

 

The Funding Opportunity 

The Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships scheme supports early career researchers with a research record but who have not yet held a full-time permanent academic post, to undertake a significant piece of publishable work.  

 

Fellowships are tenable for 3 years on a full-time basis. 

 

• Full details of this opportunity are available here.  
• Applicants should also refer to the Leverhulme Trust’s approach to grant-making available here.

 

 

 

Eligibility Criteria  

To be eligible for this call, the applicant:

 

·         Must have submitted their doctoral thesis for viva voce examination by 20 February 2025, and not before 20 February 2021, unless they have since had a career break.  (Those wishing to make a case for a career break should present the case for interruption by a period of maternity leave, family commitments, illness, or other exceptional circumstances.)

·         Must either hold a degree (any degree) from a UK higher education institution at the time of taking up the Fellowship or at the time of the application deadline must hold an academic position in the UK (e.g. fixed-term lectureship, fellowship) which commenced no less than 4 months prior to the closing date.

• Must not yet have held a full-time permanent academic post in a UK university or comparable UK institution.
• Must not have previously been a PI on a 3-year project or held a comparable 3-year post-doctoral position to pursue their own research.  
• Must have moved institutions in the course of their academic career (e.g. between their undergraduate university and proposed host institution).