The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Bath is welcoming discussions with prospective applicants to the 2024/5 round of the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship.   

The Faculty is a vibrant and diverse community of researchers spanning six departments – Social and Policy Sciences; Psychology; Politics, Languages and International Studies; Economics; Education and Health.  To find out more about research in each department follow this link: Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences research (bath.ac.uk).  

The Trust will accept applications from candidates who submitted their doctoral thesis for examination after 20th February 2021 but will not be eligible if they won’t have submitted their thesis by the 20th February 2025. Career breaks will be taken into consideration.  Applicants must not yet have held a full-time permanent academic post in a UK university or comparable UK institution, nor may Fellows hold such a post concurrently with the Early Career Fellowship. The Trust will consider applications from candidates whose permanent post does not include any research. 

We will be holding a competitive process starting in October 2024 to select our candidates.   Further information will be available on our website.  While we encourage applications from any research topic and discipline that matches our own interests, we are particularly keen to speak to applicants with research ideas from a range of disciplines in the following topics: 

Climate change and sustainable futures. We have particular interdisciplinary strengths in:  politics and governance of sustainability and climate; public health and environment; ‘just transitions’, young people and global climate change; behaviour change. 

Children and young people. We have particular interdisciplinary strengths in: physical health and sport; mental health; addiction; digital environments and wellbeing; social inclusion, social mobility and inequalities.  

If you would like to find out more please email fac-hss-research@bath.ac.uk with a short paragraph detailing your eligibility and research interests.  We will use this information to arrange a discussion with a relevant member of academic staff. 

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