Juggling career with personal circumstances is challenging and many people take a break for family or health reasons. In the world of research, highly qualified and skilled individuals who take a career break quickly find themselves lagging behind their peers, and when seeking to return to work, they struggle to find research-based employment which fully utilises their knowledge and experience. This is the primary reason why the Trust was established – to return skilled researchers and scientists back to the workplace. Our recent remit expansion to include the arts and humanities means we work cohesively with organisations across STEM, social sciences, arts, humanities, and all other related disciplines. We welcome applications from everyone and from all backgrounds.

Daphne Jackson Fellowships are unique – they offer professionals wishing to return to a research career after a break of two or more years, the opportunity to balance an individually tailored retraining programme with a challenging research project in a suitably supportive environment. The Fellowships are usually carried out on a part-time basis, over two or three years, and can be held in universities, research institutions and industry in the UK and Republic of Ireland. The Trust’s dedicated staff provide personally tailored advice and support to all Fellowship candidates at every stage of the process - from the first contact with the Trust, throughout the application process and onwards through the Fellowship.

The unique combination of mentoring, retraining and research the Daphne Jackson Fellowship provides, gives our Fellows the confidence and skills they need to return to their chosen career.

The Daphne Jackson Trust partners with universities, research councils, learned societies, charities and other research funders, to sponsor Daphne Jackson Fellows.

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