EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship

Role

Title:

EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship

Grade and Salary: Grade 7, £37,694- £47,389 per annum (please note that the successful candidate will normally be appointed on the first point).

FTE and working pattern: Full-time (35hrs per week) Fixed Term (12-24 Months)

Reward and Benefits
: 33 days annual leave, plus 9 buildings closed days for all full time staff. Use our total rewards calculator:  to see the value of benefits provided by Heriot-Watt University.

EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship roles are funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council as part of Heriot-Watt University’s Doctoral Training Partnership award.

The EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellowship scheme is intended to help universities recruit and retain the very best newly qualified doctoral (e,g PhD, EngD) students, and help them launch careers in research. The Fellowships target the top 10-15% of EPSRC-funded students.

All Fellowship projects must lie within the EPSRC remit. Consideration should be given to the alignment of the area of research with one of the following Heriot-Watt Global Research Institutes or Frontier Research areas:

• The National Robotarium (Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and Data Science)
• Net Zero (technologies that will enable decarbonisation to deliver net zero)
• Health and Care Engineering /Medical Technology
• Photonics and Quantum
• Smart construction
• Mathematics

Further information on the above can be found at Heriot-Watt’s research web pages

Applications with leverage, in-kind and cash, from an industrial or third sector partner/s are encouraged.

Support from an industrial or third-sector partner can be provided as in-kind contributions, such as supervisory time and access to facilities or as a direct cash contribution towards the fellowship.

Successful applicants will be expected to take their research to the next level and undertake new, innovative research. An outline of eligibility requirements, and the application process and deadlines, are detailed below.

The Fellowships are funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council as part of Heriot-Watt University’s Doctoral Training Partnership Award. The criteria below is that specified by EPSRC in their award terms.

• All Fellowship projects must lie within the EPSRC remit. Successful applicants will be expected to take their research to the next level and undertake new research.
• The fellowship must commence by latest May 2027 and can be 12 or 24 months. (The funding available is for an estimated three, 24 months FTE positions)
• Applicants must have received EPSRC studentship funding and have submitted their doctoral thesis on or after October 2023.
• The Fellow must have submitted their thesis for examination prior to the start of the award and no earlier than October 2023. Candidates who have not yet submitted their thesis at the time of application are still eligible, but they must have submitted their thesis prior to the Fellowship start date, and the supervisor’s letter of support must clearly state the expected submission date.
  
  Where the viva exam has not taken place before the start of the Fellowship, the outcome must be an outright pass or pass with minor corrections otherwise the Fellowship will be withdrawn. If minor corrections are required, they must be done outside of the time allocated for the Fellowship
• Applications will be accepted from any student that received EPSRC doctoral funding at a UK institution (fees and/or stipend). This includes students funded by:
  Centres for Doctoral Training (CDT), Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTP), National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) and Industrial CASE studentships (I-CASE). Those who received funding via another…