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.

The scheme offers a three-year award to post-doctoral early career researchers who have a developing research record but have not yet held a full-time permanent academic post. Fellows are expected to undertake a significant piece of publishable work, distinguishable from their PhD project, during the period of their award. Candidates must normally be within four years of the award of their doctorate and must hold a UK degree or a fixed-term position at a UK higher education institution. Full details of the eligibility criteria are available from the Leverhulme Trust website.

Music at the University of Manchester is one of the leading research departments in the UK. With a culture based on our long-standing track record of world-leading research and a strong community of academic staff, researchers and postgraduate students, research drives everything that we do. Our staff maintain outstanding international profiles in a diverse range of specialist areas encompassing musicology and music analysis, ethnomusicology, composition and performance studies. Our position within the musically and intellectually vibrant city of Manchester also encourages exciting interdisciplinary partnerships with partners working on topics ranging from early modern material cultures to contemporary urban soundscapes, and from the politics of musical suppression in the Cold War to the promotion of wellbeing through the modern community choir. Full details of our research activities are given on our Research web pages.

Applicants who would like to be hosted by the Music Department at the University of Manchester must contact your proposed departmental mentor before submitting a proposal, and you are also encouraged to make informal contact with the department’s Director of Research, Prof. Mine Dogantan Dack (mine.dogantan-dack@manchester.ac.uk), to discuss your project.

Further details will shortly be announced regarding an internal deadline for outline proposals (expected for November 2022).

Outline proposals will be subject to an internal competition within the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures at the University. Applicants who are successful at this stage will receive specialist support from the University to complete the full application process to the Leverhulme Trust before the application deadline on 23 February 2023.