Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships

The Music Department at The University of Manchester is pleased to be able to support applications from prospective applicants to the Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships Scheme.

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships: Department of Music, University of Manchester. Apply by 31 October 2024

The Music Department at the University of Manchester invites applications from prospective applicants to the forthcoming round of the Leverhulme Trust’s Early Career Fellowship scheme (2025). Please note our initial internal deadline of 31 October 2024.

Early Career Fellowships are tenable on a full-time basis for a period of three years, to commence between 1 September 2025 and 1 May 2026. They offer support for early career researchers who have not yet held a full-time permanent academic post in a UK university or comparable UK institution. Applicants must normally have submitted their doctoral thesis for viva voce examination not more than four years prior to the Trust’s closing date of 20 February 2025. In addition, they must eitherhold a degree from a UK higher education institution at the time of taking up the Fellowship, or at the time of the Trust’s application deadlinemust hold an academic position in the UK (e.g. fixed-term lectureship) which commenced no less than four months prior to the closing date. During the award period, fellows are expected to undertake a significant piece of publishable research which must be distinguishable from their PhD project, rather than a mere extension of their doctoral research.

Full details of the scheme are available from the Leverhulme Trust website: https://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career-fellowships

As one of the leading research departments in the UK, Music at the University of Manchester has a long-standing track record of world-leading research that underpins all that we do. Our diverse and dynamic research community of academic staff, postdoctoral researchers and postgraduate students provides a lively and inspiring environment for the development of new ideas, new connections and new sounds. Our staff maintain outstanding international profiles in a wide range of specialist areas encompassing musicology and music analysis, ethnomusicology, composition and performance studies. Our location within the musically and intellectually vibrant city of Manchester encourages exciting interdisciplinary collaborations with external partners as well as researchers in other parts of the university. Examples of our research activity, together with further detail about our core research areas, centres and networks, may be found on our web pages: http://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/music/research/

Applicants who wish to apply through the Department of Music are strongly advised to make contact with their proposed mentor as early as possible before submitting their proposal, which should then be completed with additional input from the mentor. Brief profiles of current Music staff and their research specialisms, together with contact details, may be found here: https://www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/music/about/people/. Applicants may also make informal contact with Prof. Caroline Bithell to discuss their project.

Applicants must submit their draft proposal as an email attachment to Prof. Caroline Bithell by midnight on Thursday 31 October 2024: Caroline.Bithell@manchester.ac.uk.

A copy of the application template that must be used may be obtained from the proposed mentor or from Prof. Bithell. Applicants should consult the relevant section of the Application Help Notes that may be downloaded from the Trust’s website (see above link) before completing the template.

Proposals received by 31 October will in the first instance be subject to an internal competition within Music and the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures. Those applicants who are successful at this stage will receive specialist support to complete the full online application before the Leverhulme Trust’s submission deadline of 20 February 2025.

We look forward to hearing from prospective candidates.

Professor Caroline Bithell

Research Coordinator

Department of Music

School of Arts, Languages and Cultures

University of Manchester (UK)