Leverhulme Trust - Grant Schemes

Grant Schemes

The Trust seeks to provide mechanisms for the support of researchers and students which can be effective at all stages in their careers; and currently offers 14 different schemes:

Research Project Grants

Provide funds to employ research staff for up to five years on an innovative and original project of high quality and potential, the choice of theme and the design of the research lying with the applicant.

Research Leadership Awards

These awards are only available every five years. They support researchers who have succeeded in beginning a university career but who are then confronted with the task of building a research team adequately able to tackle an identified but distinctive research problem. Each UK institution is limited to one bid only.

Research Programme Grants

Provide funds to research teams for up to five years to enable them to explore significant issues based on themes that are selected by the Trust each year.

Study Abroad Studentships

Support up to two years of advanced study or research at a centre of learning in any overseas country, with the exception of the USA.

Early Career Fellowships

Provide career development opportunities, of two or three years, for those who are at a relatively early stage of their academic careers but with a proven record of research.

Research Fellowships

Provide support for up to two years for experienced researchers, particularly those who have been prevented by routine duties from completing a programme of original research. Awards are not limited to those holding appointments in higher education.

Study Abroad Fellowships

Open to those holding a full-time post in a UK institution of higher education or comparable institution and support a period overseas in a stimulating academic environment for up to one year.

Major Research Fellowships

Provide up to three years of full-time teaching replacement so that the applicant can concentrate on a piece of research, typically bringing it forward to publication as a monograph.

Emeritus Fellowships

Provide support for up to two years of research to be conducted by the applicant following retirement from an academic post.

International Networks

Enable a Principal Investigator based in the UK to lead a research project, of up to three years, where its successful completion is dependant on the participation of relevant overseas institutions.

Visiting Professorships

Enable distinguished academics based overseas to spend up to ten months at a UK university, primarily in order to enhance the skills of academic staff or the student body within the host institution.

Philip Leverhulme Prizes

Awarded to outstanding scholars who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their particular field of study, are recognised at an international level, and where the expectation is that their greatest achievements are yet to come.

Arts Bursaries

Provide funds for up to three years to enable institutions to offer Training Bursaries – for training in the fine and performing arts; Mentorship Bursaries – for postgraduate students to develop their teaching and administrative skills; and Collaborative Arts Bursaries – facilitating original artistic collaborations between two or more arts training institutions.

Arts Initiatives

Provide support for up to three years for Innovative Teaching Activity Awards – supporting the artistic development of the students concerned; and Arts and Technology Awards – supporting projects which promote the creative use of technology within any area of the arts.

Artists in Residence

Support the residency of an artist of any kind or nationality in a UK institution in order to foster a creative collaboration between the artist and members of that institution, where creative art is not part of the normal curriculum or activity.