UK Research and Innovation’s Future Leaders scheme is the natural home for discipline-spanning bids from researchers with unusual career paths, which suited Fay Bound Alberti perfectly, as she tells Sophie Inge.
Fay’s top tips
- Make sure your project is ambitious and interdisciplinary.
- Think about how your research connects to the bigger picture in the UK and globally.
- Use the large amount of guidance published online.
- Think about what makes you different as a candidate, especially if you have a non-linear career history or have worked outside academia.
Announced to much fanfare in 2018, UK Research and Innovation’s Future Leaders Fellowships offer up to seven years’ funding, allocated on a ‘4+3’ basis with a review in the fourth year.
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