If interested in any of the following opportunities, please contact me in advance of the corresponding deadline so that, if appropriate, I might be able to fully support you in the preparation of your application. I have first-hand (positive) experience with a number of these funding schemes.

We are particularly proud to have established the Elizabeth Gardner Fellowship to encourage greater diversity within our community.

For applicants of any nationality, with or without previous UK residency status

• MSCA Individual European ‘Standard’ Fellowships (for both EU and non-EU nationals, note some mobility restrictions)
• MSCA Individual Global Fellowships (for ‘re-enter phase’ of EU nationals, note some mobility restrictions)
• UKRI Stephen Hawking Fellowship (note the emphasis on public engagement)
• Royal Astronomical Society Fellowship (including Sir Norman Lockyer Fellowship)
• Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Research Fellowship (including 1851 Brunel Fellowship)
• IAU – The Gruber Foundation Fellowship (note that salary support is not included)

For applicants already based in the UK (or with a UK degree)

• Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship (note that matching funds are required)

For applicants not based in the UK

• Royal Society Newton International Fellowship (including K.C. Wong Foundation International Fellowship and Sino-British Trust International Fellowship for applicants from China and Newton Fund-supported Fellowships for applicants from selected partner countries)
• JSPS Overseas Research Fellowship (applicants from Japan)
• Canon Foundation Fellowship (applicants from Japan)
• US-UK Fulbright Fellowship (applicants from United States)
• NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (applicants from Canada)
• MSCA Individual European ‘Reintegration’ Fellowships (for EU nationals who wish to return to Europe after time spent in a ‘Third Country’)
• NWO Rubicon Fellowship (applicants from The Netherlands)
• SNSF Early Postdoc.Mobility Fellowship (applicants from Switzerland)
• Accademia dei Lincei – Royal Society Fellowship (applicants from Italy, note the intermittent call schedule)

For applicants seeking to return from an academic career break or in need of flexible working pattern due to parental and/or caring responsibilities

• STFC ‘Return to Research’ Support Bursary (6-month support for the preparation of a competitive application for a longer term fellowship)
• Daphne Jackson Trust Fellowship (applicants with UK residency status and a career break of at least 2 years)
• MSCA Individual European ‘Career Restart’ Fellowships (applicants of any nationality, note some mobility restrictions)
• JSPS ‘Restart Research Abroad’ Fellowship (applicants from Japan)
• Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (applicants of any nationality)

For applicants interested in conducting research at the interface with other disciplines (especially mathematical sciences), or, more generally, ‘willing to engage in a dialogue on relevant social, cultural, political or economic issues across the frontiers of their particular discipline’

• EPSRC Postdoctoral Fellowship (applicants of any nationality, note some restrictions on research subjects)
• MSCA Individual European ‘Society and Enterprise’ Fellowship (applicants of any nationality, note some mobility restrictions)
• Branco Weiss ‘Society in Science’ Fellowship (applicants of any nationality)

For applicants interested in establishing research leadership at the School of Physics and Astronomy or the School of Mathematics of the University of Edinburgh, several opportunities (e.g., ERC Starting Grant, UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, Royal Society University Research Fellowship, STFC Rutherford Fellowship, EPSRC Senior Fellowship) and the relevant internal regulations are described here and here.