Faraday Discovery Fellowships

The Faraday Discovery Fellowships are prestigious long-term awards that support the most talented mid-career research leaders to undertake high-quality, original research. The programme is aimed at outstanding mid-career Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) researchers and provides grants of up to £8m over a ten-year period to support the development of world-leading research groups in the UK. The fellowships are supported through a £250m fund from the Department of Science Innovation and Technology (DSIT). They are large, investigator-led grants awarded to a single Principal Investigator (PI) to enable them to establish an outstanding team of researchers to address challenging research questions. The programme provides the most talented mid-career researchers with the time and freedom to focus on their research, providing long-term, stable funding to allow them to tackle difficult and intractable problems. The scheme does not operate thematic priorities and will consider applications from all areas of science (STEM) covered by the Royal Society remit, including Frontiers of Science and Science for Resilience and Prosperity.