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Comment: Updates re: Round 8


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titleRound 7 internal selection process now complete

Please note: York undertook its internal selection process for FLF Round 7 in August and early September 2022. This has now finished, and we are no longer accepting new Expressions of Interest. However, Round 8 is likely to open in early 2023, so Departments/Schools may wish to begin working with prospective applicants to think about future applications to the scheme.

If you feel FLF is the scheme for you, we expect Round 8 to open in early 2023, so you may wish to begin developing an idea of the programme of work you'd like to carry out in preparation for this. More details will follow when UKRI officially announces Round 8.


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titleIntroduction to UKRI FLF

UKRI has recently announced that Round 7 of its Future Leaders Fellowship programme has opened.

Future Leaders Fellowships are aimed at early career researchers and innovators who are either:

  • looking to establish or transition to independence
  • developing their own original and ambitious plans within a commercial setting.

There is no minimum or maximum award value. The project can last up to four years, with the option to apply to renew for a further three years.

These Fellowships are assessed against four criteria:

  • Research and innovation excellence
  • Applicant and their development
  • Impact and strategic relevance
  • Research and innovation environment and costs


We are currently supporting candidates during the preparation of applications to Round 6 of the UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships scheme, and this page now includes information to support this.

If you're not currently preparing an application and are looking for more information on the FLF scheme, we are currently unsure of whether there will be future rounds of this scheme, or whether there will be a replacement for this scheme. If you'd like to explore other alternative Fellowship opportunities that are available, we have a list of currently available fellowship opportunities (sorted by Faculty area) that may help your initial searches.

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titleLink to Funder Guidance:

UKRI's FLF website provides a number of guidance documents to help applicants prepare their application, including:


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titleApplying for UKRI FLF

Please note: the process below relates to Round 7. The process for Round 8 may be different - if it changes, this page will be updated by the end of 2022 and details will be circulated via YRAF and CDRCs.

In Round 7, There is an institutional limit of 4 applications from York. This means that the Fellowships Coordination Committee will be running an internal selection process, to identify which candidates they wish to put forward.

  1. Departments/Schools who wish to support a Fellow should undertake a selection process in order to nominate a maximum of two candidates to progress to the University-level selection assessment.

    • If an application is being put forward as a job share, two candidates can be put forward for one application.

    • Both internal and external candidates are eligible to apply, and will be supported equitably through the application process.

  2. Successful Departmental candidates complete the Expression of Interest (EoI) form and prepare a 4-page CV.

  3. Candidates send the form and CV to the Chair of their Departmental Research Committee to complete the statement of support and sign the form off.

  4. DRC Chair submits the completed forms and CVs to Taryn Bell (fellowships@york.ac.uk) by 5pm, Monday 8 August 2022.

    • If putting two applications forward, the Department must indicate which application is their top choiceand give a brief explanation as to why.

  5. EoIs reviewed and decisions made by the Institutional Peer Review Panel (including the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research), Associate Deans (Research), and additional disciplinary co-opted members as required).

  6. Candidates will be notified of the outcome and receive feedback as soon as possible after the selection panel has made a decision, by end of w/c 29 August 2022.

  7. Candidates who are successful at the University selection panel meeting will be invited to develop their application to submit to the funder.

  8. Candidates who progress to this stage will also be eligible to apply to the University’s Fellowship Coordination Committee (FCC) who may be able to provide limited financial support for match funding for equipment costs. The Committee will only consider match-funding items that clearly improve the chances of the fellowship being funded and the Committee will not consider match-funding salary costs for this scheme.

https://www.ukri.org/funding/funding-opportunities/future-leaders-fellowships/how-to-apply/


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What are the deadlines for Round 7?

  • Outline application deadline: 18 October, 4pm UK time
  • Full application deadline: 6 December, 4pm UK time

As always, remember that York's internal deadlines are always at least a week earlier than the funder's deadline.

Do you have any examples of successful applications?

Benjamin and Luke have shared their applications with us, and if you are applying an application, you should be able to access these here:

Lichman -- application

Mackinder -- application

Please note that the guidance has changed a little since these were written, and so there may be some changes to what you are required to submit. Please always check and work from the current guidance.

We are grateful to Benjamin and Luke for sharing their applications, and ask that you don't share these applications further without asking.

If you don't have access, but would like to view them, please let me know

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titleFellows at University of York

The University currently has three Future Leader Fellows:

Dr Fay Alberti - Department of History (Round 1)

Fay's project, About Face, traces the emotional and cultural histories of facial disfigurement, reconstruction and transplantation between the 1950s and the present. Building on Fay’s research on the history of cosmetic surgery (and advisory work for the Nuffield Council on Bioethics), and her work on heart transplantation and bodily identity, this project brings an interdisciplinary lens to the recent emergence of face transplants as a viable form of surgical innovation. About Face connects to Fay’s wider interests in identity, gender, technology and ‘looks', especially in the digital age, and the links between appearance matters, emotional health and wellbeing.

https://www.york.ac.uk/history/staff/profiles/fay-bound-alberti/

Dr Benjamin Lichman - Department of Biology (Round 1)

Benjamin's project investigates how a small tree, native to East Asia, could help in the creation of new medicines. The Daphniphyllum macropodum shrub produces an array of complex nitrogen-containing chemicals that are unlike any other known chemicals from plants, animals or microbes and have been shown to have anti-cancer and anti-HIV properties.

https://www.york.ac.uk/biology/research/plant-biology/benjamin-lichman/

Dr Luke Mackinder - Department of Biology (Round 3)

Luke's project investigates how algae converts carbon dioxide into organic molecules during photosynthesis. The results of the research will be used to guide improvements in photosynthesis to help combat climate change and enhance crop yields. Luke and his team will explore how proteins (the building blocks of cells) are spatially organised in diverse algae and how these "protein-networks" change as the cells absorb or “fix” CO2 during photosynthesis.

https://www.york.ac.uk/biology/research/plant-biology/luke-mackinder/

either 'request access', or send an email to fellowships@york.ac.uk.

Does an applicant need to contact UKRI if they are requesting over £1.5m?

The scheme guidance for Round 7 states that, if the applicant is requesting over £1.5m, they must include a cover letter justifying these costs.


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titleWho to contact with questions about applying

Your If you are seriously considering applying for an FLF, please contact your Department's Research Support Office: https://www.york.ac.uk/staff/research/research-administrators/, who can provide support and advice on the logistics of a Fellowship.

You can also contact the University Fellowship Coordinator, Taryn Bell University Fellowship Coordinator: Annabel Jenkins (fellowships@york.ac.uk).



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titleInformation for Research Support Administrators

The following information relates to funder and University processes and is intended to assist members of Research Support teams (rather than applicants). If you have any queries, please get in touch with your RGO contact.

For the Outline stage:

  • Worktribe records will need to be completed and approved in the normal way for the Outline application (see below for more information).
  • You'll need to request that these be moved back to the Bid Submission stage to allow you to make further changes before the full stage.
  • The costings in WT should be as accurate as possible at the Outline stage.
  • Standard University deadlines apply for submission at the Outline stage.

Additional notes:

These are UKRI awards, but all are administered by MRC, so MRC should be selected as the funder (for the benefit of newer people, 'Outline Bid' should be selected in the tags, Fellows are always DI costs on UKRI grants and any proposals with a Price to Funder above £1m should have a completed PVC-R approval form attached).

RGO notes on the FLF can be found here (version from March 2021):

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If you have any queries, please get in touch with your RGO contactMRC do not require any costings until Full Proposal stage, but we do need a Worktribe completing for Outline stage (as we would for any Outline as WT captures more than just budgets) and the Outline covering letter in JeS needs to state whether the total is >£1.5m or if the equipment totals over £138k.
FLF proposals follow standard research council costing rules except for the salary for Years 3 and 4 of the fellow.
UKRI expect fellows to commit 100% of their time for the duration of the fellowship (so overheads should be generated on 100% FTE) but the salary requested should taper to 75% in years 3 and 4.
We've found the best way to do this in Worktribe is to keep all entries as standard, but create two entries for the Fellow:
Entry 1 = Yrs 1-2 entered as standard
Entry 2 = Yrs 3-4 change "Price to Funder" to a "Custom % of Cost to Funder" of 60%  (i.e. 80% of 75%)
This should give you the correct figures for internal use at Outline stage
JeS forms for Full Proposals require some adjusting, as MRC want the "RC contribution" to still show as 80% on the JeS form, but the excel form available on the MRC site will do these calculations.