Overview
A short UK academia–industry mobility fellowship supporting collaborative natural-sciences projects between eligible researchers in universities or not-for-profit research organisations and private industry.
Complete fellowship details
Round 2 opened 12 August 2026 and closes 7 October 2026. Awards may be held full time for three to six months, or at 50% part time for up to 12 months. Funding can cover the applicant's and/or a nominated postdoctoral researcher's basic salary during the secondment, while the employing organisation continues national insurance and pension contributions, plus research expenses up to £1,000. The scheme supports mobility between UK academia/not-for-profit research organisations and UK private industry and is intended to seed stronger long-term collaboration and knowledge exchange.
Eligibility requirements
Main applicants must hold a PhD or be of equivalent professional standing and hold a permanent or fixed-term post extending beyond the expected fellowship end date in a UK university, eligible not-for-profit research organisation or UK industry. The proposed research must fall within the Royal Society natural-sciences remit. Royal Society-funded University Research Fellowship and Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship holders are not eligible for this scheme. A postdoctoral researcher may be nominated to work on the collaborative project, but postdoctoral researchers are not eligible to apply as the main applicant. Self-employed consultants are not eligible as the industrial partner.
Tips for this fellowship
Practical Job and Scholarship guidance. These tips do not replace official rules or create new eligibility requirements.
- Check eligibility, funding coverage, study/project level and every required document before investing time in the application.
- Prepare transcripts, references, language tests, proposal/motivation statement and proof documents early.
- Separate the scholarship deadline from any university/program admission deadline; they may be different.
- Treat “fully funded” as a source fact only when the official provider explicitly confirms the covered costs.
Verification notes
Re-verified against the current Royal Society Short Industry Fellowship page on 2 September 2026. The page shows 2026 Round 2 open from 12 August 2026 and closing 7 October 2026. The checked page does not state a closing clock time, so only deadline_date is stored. This append-only revision also corrects the prior record's impossible verification chronology, where verified_at was four seconds later than the commit that already contained it. Funding and eligibility fields remain limited to terms stated by the Royal Society.
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