Pre-announcement: Future Leaders Fellowship: round 11 – UKRI

The Warwick Law School (WLS), University of Warwick, is looking to attract emerging and exceptional talent in legal and socio-legal research in the UK, through the Pre-announcement: Future Leaders Fellowships: round 11 – UKRI We would like to host and support external an candidate with their application. The FLF fellowship offers long-term, flexible support, including the fellow's salary and research, staff and training costs, plus the opportunity of a permanent academic position on successful completion of the fellowship. There is 1 position available. 

Eligibility:

This scheme is for an early career researcher and innovator who is transitioning to, or establishing independence, or who may be developing their own original and ambitious plans within a commercial setting.

Applicants do not need to hold a PhD, and there are no eligibility rules on years since PhD. If you do not hold a PhD, you must demonstrate equivalent research or innovation experience or training. There is no eligibility rules based on whether the applicant currently holds a permanent or open-ended academic position or job role.

Full details of the call and the eligibility criteria can be found at Pre-announcement: Future Leaders Fellowships: round 11 – UKRI

How to Apply:

An open and inclusive internal selection process will be employed to support the best candidate to the full application stage.

The interested applicant is asked to submit the following documents:

A completed EOI form (maximum length: 5 pages)

UKRI FLF R11_EOI Template v1_final

The School of Law will nominate the strongest applicant to the internal selection process. Applications will be first reviewed by Faculty-level selection panels. A maximum of 4 proposals selected from each Faculty will be taken forward to be reviewed by a university-level selection panel which will identify the 6 applications to be submitted to UKRI. The department will be able to support one candidate at the University selection stage.

The internal selection panels at Faculty and University level will make their decision solely on the basis of the information contained in the EOI and R4RI, assessing them against the fit to the scheme assessment criteria as outlined above. Applicants should therefore provide the full information requested using the template provided. Applicants should be mindful that the submitted EOI and R4RI will be used for both Faculty-level and University-level selections, where not all panel members will be from the research discipline of the applicant. The information in the proposal should therefore be stated in a clear format for all panel members including non-experts. All panels will be made up of a range of disciplinary expertise, as is standard practice for the UKRI assessment panels for this competition.

Applications received will be assessed against the following criteria, the weighting of each criterion is specified in the criterion title. 

• Vision and Approach (weighting: 30%)
• Applicant capability to deliver (weighting: 30%)
• Career development (weighting: 30%)
• Host environment (weighting: 10%)

Please submit this document by Wednesday 11^th February 2026, 12pm, to j.c.wilson@warwick.ac.uk. Please note that the University internal deadline is noon on Wednesday 4^th March 2026 and we will work with the selected candidate to develop their EOI before this deadline.

Applications must be the original work of the applicant and not generated using any form of generative AI.

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