Ernest Rutherford Fellowship 2025

[Mathematics Education Researchers (MER) community]

Ernest Rutherford Fellowship 2025
provides early-career researchers with the platform to pursue innovative and independent research aligned with STFC’s core science programmes

Duration up to 5 years

• Fellows can undertake their research on either a full-time or part-time basis (minimum 50%), with full salary support provided.
  
• In addition to salary, up to £5,000 to cover minor equipment and consumables essential for their project, travel allowance of approximately £2,200 per year to support participation in conferences, fieldwork, and collaborative visits. Those relocating from outside Europe can claim up to £3,000 in relocation support.

Eligibility

• Hold a PhD or have equivalent relevant experience.
  
• Be early in their research career (but no minimum years of postdoc experience is required).
  
• Not hold a tenured academic position or equivalent (such as lecturer level).
  
• Be hosted by a UK-based research institution with an STFC ERF quota.
  
• Applicants of any nationality are welcome and can apply for the UK Global Talent Visa.

Opportunity status: Open

• Funders: Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
  
• Funding type: Fellowship
  
• Total fund: £6,000,000
  
• Publication date: 4 June 2025
  
• Opening date: 4 June 2025 9:00am UK time
• Closing date: 1 October 2025 4:00pm UK time

Check the remit for what we fund
Each council’s remit page has more detail on the topic areas they cover:

• history, archaeology, philosophy and languages are funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council
  
• plants, animals (including humans) and microbes are funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
  
• social sciences, for example economics, psychology and education are funded by the Economic and Social Research Council
  
• chemistry, engineering, information and communications technologies, mathematical sciences, physics and materials are funded by Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
  
• development and commercialisation of new products, processes and services for businesses are funded by Innovate UK
  
• global health research, infections and immunity, neurosciences and mental healthare funded by the Medical Research Council
  
• atmospheric physics and chemistry, geosciences, ecology, biodiversity and climateare funded by the Natural Environment Research Council
  
• astronomy, particle and nuclear physics, accelerator science and computational science are funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council
  
• If your proposal is multidisciplinary, contact the council you think is most likely to fund your research. More details are available in the cross-council remit agreement.
  

More: https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/ernest-rutherford-fellowship-2025/