STFC fellowships: rules and regulations

Eligibility

• Advanced Fellowships are intended for researchers who do not have a permanent academic position or a permanent research position but wish to pursue a long term research career. Applicants who secure a permanent position prior to the offer of a fellowship award are ineligible to hold the fellowship.
  
  
• Applicants must have a PhD and a minimum of five years’ research experience from the start of the postgraduate programme leading to the award of a PhD and 1 September 2011, with normally a minimum of two years postdoctoral experience.
  
  
• Applicants should have proved their ability as an individual and independent researcher.
  
  
• Applicants must hold the fellowship at any UK Institution acceptable to STFC.
  
  
• Fellowships are open to applicants of any nationality.

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