Philip Leverhulme Prizes in the UK

Deadline: 17-May-23

The Leverhulme Trust is accepting applications for Philip Leverhulme Prizes for researchers at an early stage of their careers whose work has had international impact and whose future research career is exceptionally promising – to use for any research purpose.

Aims

• Philip Leverhulme Prizes are designed to recognise and facilitate the work of outstanding research scholars of proven achievement, who have made and are continuing to make original and significant contributions to knowledge in their particular field.
• Up to thirty Prizes will be awarded in 2023, across the following subject areas: Biological Sciences, History, Law, Mathematics and Statistics, Philosophy and Theology, Sociology and Social Policy.
• It is expected that Prize Winners will have influenced their field sufficiently to have had an international impact.
• The subject areas selected are intentionally broad, and nominations will be considered irrespective of a nominee’s departmental affiliation.
• Please note that, between 2023 and 2025, an individual may only be nominated for one of the 18 subject areas in which the Trust is offering Prizes during those three years.

Subject Areas

• Applications will be considered within the six broad subject areas available each year. These rotate on a 3-year cycle. The current cycle is 2023, 2024 and 2025. The next 3-year cycle will be 2026, 2027 and 2028. You may not be nominated for more than one prize subject in any 3-year cycle.
  • Subject areas 2023
    • Biological Sciences
    • History
    • Law
    • Mathematics and Statistics
    • Philosophy and Theology
    • Sociology and Social Policy
  • Subject areas 2024
    • Classics
    • Earth Sciences
    • Physics
    • Politics and International Relations
    • Psychology
    • Visual and Performing Arts
  • Subject areas 2025
    • Archaeology
    • Chemistry
    • Economics
    • Engineering
    • Geography
    • Languages and Literatures.

Funding Information

• Each prize is worth £100,000.
• Duration: The funding is available over 2 to 3 years.

Use of a Prize

• Expenditure from the award may be used for any purpose related to the advancement of the research of the Prize Winner, provided that the items of expenditure fall within the categories classically eligible for the support of the Trust.
• Examples include research assistance, teaching replacement, travel and subsistence, consumables (including specialist books, databases and similar materials), technical support, or computing and software. The principal ineligible items are capital equipment, augmentation of the Prize Winner’s salary, and institutional overheads.

Eligibility Criteria

• Nominees must hold either a permanent post or a long-term Fellowship in a UK institution of higher education or research that would extend beyond the duration of the Philip Leverhulme Prize. Those otherwise without salary are not eligible to be nominated. Nominees should normally have been awarded their doctoral degree not more than ten years prior to the closing date of 17 May 2023. The award date is considered to be the date on which the degree was confirmed by the awarding institution. However, nominations are accepted for those who do not meet this requirement if they have had a distinct career break. Please note that the only eligible career breaks for this funding scheme are for caring responsibilities or due to illness.
• Nominators should make an explicit statement of such circumstances where nominees were awarded their highest degree earlier than 17 May 2013.
• Prizes are awarded to individuals. The Trust Board will not consider making an award where two (or more) nominations are received for substantially the same body of work.

For more information, visit Philip Leverhulme Prizes.