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Isaac Newton Trust

 

INT Academic Career Development Fellowships offer the opportunity for exceptional scholars in selected subjects in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences to contribute to both research and teaching within a Faculty and College environment, offering excellent preparation for subsequent academic appointments at Cambridge or elsewhere.  

INT Academic Career Development Fellows will have an opportunity to:

  • Enjoy protected research time to pursue an independent project;

  • Be embedded in a Faculty research and teaching culture;

  • Teach in College in small groups (in some cases, to act as a College Director of Studies);

  • Teach undergraduate and/or Masters students in a Faculty setting;

  • Be mentored by Faculty members in academic skills (teaching, research, publication, grant applications, academic administration)

  • Become a member of the INT’s Fellowship community.

Eligible candidates will be at an early stage of their career typically with less than three years’ experience post-PhD/equivalent, exclusive of any career breaks.  They will either already hold a PhD, or have an equivalent qualification, or will have submitted their doctoral dissertation by the Fellowship application deadline.  

  • All Colleges are potentially eligible providing they have a Department/Faculty partner,

  • INT provides financial support for the research element of the Fellowship (40% of total salary costs)

  • A Faculty/Department provides for Faculty teaching (30% of total salary costs)

  • A College (or possibly two Colleges together) will provide 30% for up to 80 hours teaching (30% of total salary costs)

  • For certain Colleges (those eligible for an INT JRF), INT may offer supplementary funds to help cover the College’s 30% salary contribution (see How to Apply)

To see full details of the ACDF programme, refer to the current Framework Document.

Current INT ACDFs

 

 

INT Funding Rounds

For Research Grants:

2024/2025 application deadlines - please see for individual funding calls

Michaelmas: 11 October 2024 - Closed

Lent: 10 January 2025

Easter: 25 April 2025

 

For Early Career Fellows:

Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships 2025

Check with Host Cambridge Department for application deadline: no later than 31 October 2024

 

For Colleges:

Academic Career Development Fellowships

Colleges and Departments interested in making partnerships should contact the Director at the earliest opportunity. 
Partnerships should be agreed in Lent Term and no later than 21 February 2025

Widening Participation & Induction Fund

Next application deadline: 31 January 2025 

Junior Research Fellowship Programme

Next application deadline: 09 May 2025

Trustees' Meeting Dates

Thursday 21 November 2024

Thursday 20 March 2025

Thursday 03 July 2025

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