Early Career Opportunities

We are happy to provide advice and support to applicants for independent research fellowships, including:

• 1851 Research Fellowships
• BBSRC Discovery Fellowships (refer to current year's call link if/when available)
• British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Human Frontier Science Program Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships
• Marie Curie Individual Fellowships
• Newton International Fellowships
• NERC Independent Research Fellowships (refer to the current year's call link if/when available)
• Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
• Royal Society University Research Fellowships
• Wellcome Trust Fellowships

If you are interested in applying for funding to work at the Museum and becoming part of the research team here, please contact us informally at research@oum.ox.ac.uk, taking into account approaching us at least six months in advance of the official deadline of a call if you are targeting a specific fellowship.

We ask that potential applicants send us a one-page summary of their planned research, including details of how they will undertake specimen-focused research and make use of Museum facilities, together with a CV with up to five best publications highlighted. 

Further details about research in the Museum.