{"id":857,"date":"2019-06-26T10:48:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T09:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/?p=857"},"modified":"2019-06-26T10:48:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T09:48:05","slug":"ukri-future-leaders-fellowships-flfs-round-4-internal-selection-process-guidance-deadline-8th-july-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/2019\/06\/26\/ukri-future-leaders-fellowships-flfs-round-4-internal-selection-process-guidance-deadline-8th-july-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships (FLFs) &#8211; Round 4 Internal Selection Process Guidance &#8211; Deadline 8th July 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Internal Expression of Interest for Round 4<\/strong> <strong>of the UKRI Future Leader Fellowships is now open.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/funding\/funding-opportunities\/future-leaders-fellowships\/\">https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/funding\/funding-opportunities\/future-leaders-fellowships\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This cross-UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) scheme will support early career researchers and innovators with outstanding potential in universities, UK registered businesses, and other research and user environments including research councils&#8217; institutes and laboratories.<\/p>\n<p>The Future Leader Fellowship (FLF) scheme welcomes applications from both UK and international applicants and individuals should use the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/files\/funding\/flf-person-specification-pdf\/\">person specification<\/a> to assess and justify their suitability. The support of the institution will be a critical component of all fellowships which will enable the fellow to transition to or establish their research\/innovation independence in any area supported by UKRI.<\/p>\n<p>The objectives of the scheme are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>to develop, retain, attract and sustain research and innovation talent in the UK<\/li>\n<li>to foster new research and innovation career paths including those at the academic\/business and interdisciplinary boundaries, and facilitate movement of people between sectors<\/li>\n<li>to provide sustained funding and resources for the best early career researchers and innovators<\/li>\n<li>to provide long-term, flexible funding to tackle difficult and novel challenges, and support adventurous, ambitious programmes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These Fellowships support applicants from diverse career paths, including those returning from a career break or following time in other roles. Applications are encouraged from those wishing to work part-time in order to combine the fellowship with personal responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>The support offered will be long-term and flexible and will provide comprehensive package, including the fellow&#8217;s salary and justified research, staff and training costs, with seven years of support available on a 4+3 model, with a review in year four.<\/p>\n<p>As per previous rounds, an internal selection process for nominations will be conducted.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The internal deadline is midday, 8<sup>th<\/sup> July 2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><u>Applicants must have the support of their School before applying. Please contact your Institute Director to discuss your application as soon as possible.<\/u><\/p>\n<p><strong>Candidates should submit the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>A title of the proposed fellowship.<\/li>\n<li>Identification of which Research Council remits the proposed fellowship aligns to.<\/li>\n<li>The UKRI FLF CV template.<\/li>\n<li>A list of relevant peer-reviewed research publications.<\/li>\n<li>A statement on your primary area of research or innovation (up to 200 characters).<\/li>\n<li>A statement on the research focus of the fellowship proposal (up to 2000 characters).<\/li>\n<li>A detailed description of the 7-year programme of research (up to 4000 characters total) This should consist of a detailed description of the 4 year programme (3000 characters) and a description of activities in years 5-7 (1000 characters).<\/li>\n<li>A description as to why the FLF is suitable for you, how will this fellowship change your career and where you see yourself at the end (up to 1000 characters).<\/li>\n<li>Describe how you have previously demonstrated leadership skills and what steps you will take to become a Future Leader (up to 1000 characters).<\/li>\n<li>An outline of your independent funding obtained to develop your \u2018transition to independence\u2019 and, if holding a tenured Faculty position, what full-time equivalent research time you have had in that post as well as what funding obtained to develop independence. <em>Please note: if successful, Fellows\u2019 full working time will be committed to these Fellowships. Fellows would not be expected to be spending more than in the region of six hours a week (pro-rated for part-time Fellows) on these other commitments (or undertaking up to two sessions a week in the case of Clinical Fellows) during the first two years of the Fellowship.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>For administrative purposes <u>only<\/u> and to ensure you receive the appropriate support for the development of your fellowship proposal could you please answer the following questions:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Does Newcastle University own the preliminary research results, data, process or technology (Background IP) that you wish to use as a basis for the research programme in the fellowship? [Yes\/No]<\/li>\n<li>Does any element of the research programme involve NHS staff, NHS patients or NHS premises? [Yes\/No]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Applications should be submitted to Dr Clare McCann <\/strong><a href=\"mailto:clare.mccann@newcastle.ac.uk\">clare.mccann@newcastle.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internal Expression of Interest for Round 4 of the UKRI Future Leader Fellowships is now open. https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/funding\/funding-opportunities\/future-leaders-fellowships\/ This cross-UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) scheme will support early career researchers and innovators with outstanding potential in universities, UK registered businesses, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/2019\/06\/26\/ukri-future-leaders-fellowships-flfs-round-4-internal-selection-process-guidance-deadline-8th-july-2019\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-researchfunding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/857\/revisions\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/icmresearchfunding\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}