Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

The Faculty of Business and Law invites outline proposals from postdoctoral scholars interested in applying for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship hosted at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Royal Holloway Business School is an AACSB accredited School. Our goal is to cultivate an inclusive environment where faculty and students can tackle the big questions facing business and society. Our research themes are wide-ranging, but all have one thing in common: they all aim to make a difference, from local communities to global impact. We are particularly interested in supporting research projects which align with our three Research Centres: Centre for Critical and Historical Research on Organisation and Society (CHRONOS); Centre for Research into Sustainability (CRIS); and, Digital Organisations and Society (DOS).

Royal Holloway Law School is an ambitious and growing law school with a strong reputation for interdisciplinary scholarship, social purpose, and research-informed education. We are committed to strategically investing in research excellence. We are particularly interested to support research projects tackling challenges at the intersection of markets, business, regulation and society that adopt socio-legal or interdisciplinary perspectives and methods.

Details of the Leverhulme scheme can be found here, with special attention to the eligibility criteria: candidates must hold a doctorate by the time they take up the Fellowship. Those who are or have been registered for a doctorate at any time may apply only if they have submitted their doctoral thesis for viva voce examination by 4pm on the closing date of 18 February 2027. 

Prospective candidates will be selected through an internal selection process. If you are interested, please identify a possible departmental mentor from the Business School or the Law School, and please discuss your proposed application directly with that staff member.

For further information or to submit a proposal, please contact:

• Professor Helen Tregidga (Helen.Tregidga@rhul.ac.uk) at the Business School or
• Professor Renata Uitz (Renata.Uitz@rhul.ac.uk) at the Law School.

An outline proposal should include: 

• a one-page summary of the planned project, indicating research questions, research context, methods and outcomes;
• a CV (maximum two pages), with representative publications;
• a short statement (maximum one page) of how your project would intersect with research currently underway at Royal Holloway, specifying which staff member(s) have given outline agreement to be your mentor. 

Application deadline: 7 December 2026, 17:00 BST.

Candidates who successfully proceed through all stages of the internal selection process will then be invited to submit a full Leverhulme application supported by Royal Holloway, for which the closing date is 18 February 2027.

Royal Holloway is committed to equality and diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community. Read here about structures and initiatives around equality and diversity, including information on staff diversity networks.

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