Overview

Giving early career scientists or engineers of exceptional promise the opportunity to conduct research of their own instigation.

Open to candidates intending to conduct research in any of the physical or biological sciences, in mathematics, in applied science, or in any branch of engineering*. The ultimate objective is to contribute to the knowledge base required for a healthy and innovative national culture. Around eight awards are made each year.

*Engineers proposing research which addresses the primary infrastructure needs of modern society should apply for a Brunel Fellowship.

Applications are open

Do you have 3 years or less post-doctoral research experience and want to conduct innovative research of your own instigation?

Fellowships are held from 1 October in the year of award for a period of typically 3 years, and offers cannot be deferred to a later year.

Please note that the Ramsay Memorial Fellowships have been absorbed into the 1851 Research Fellowships. The best chemist selected to hold an 1851 Research Fellowship will also be known as the Ramsay Memorial Fellow. There is no separate application form and our standard eligibility criteria applies.

  • Dr Emma Banks

    Illuminating the mechanistic basis of virus-like gene transfer between bacteria

  • Dr Alison Cribb

    Ecosystem engineers, resilience, and climate change through Earth history

  • Dr Larissa Gomes Franca

    Stimuli-responsive liquid crystal host materials for energy upconversion systems

  • Dr Freya Johnson

    Antiferromagnetic materials for fast and energy-efficient computing

  • Dr Dean Lomax

    Novel Imaging Elucidates Hunting Behaviours of Giant ‘Sea Dragons’

  • Dr Giulia Rubino

    Undoing Quantum Operations using Integrated Photonics Technologies (UQIPT)

  • Dr Lucas Sá

    Order and chaos in dissipative quantum matter

  • Dr Benito Wainwright

    How does evolution break functional barriers to fine-tune adaptation?

  • Dr Dan Wilson

    Transition-Metal Main-Group Cooperativity: A Strategy for Catalytic Transformations with Ammonia