The 2025/2026 ESRC-SCDTP Postdoctoral Fellowship Call is now open for applications.
Introduction
The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) recently completed the application call for its prestigious 2025/2026 Postdoctoral Fellowship (PDF) scheme. This scheme is designed to support early-career researchers in consolidating their PhD achievements, developing publications, expanding professional networks, and enhancing both research and professional skills.
The ESRC PDF scheme plays a key role in our commitment to nurturing the growth of emerging scholars. Managed through our Doctoral Training Partnerships (DTPs) across the UK, the fellowship provides a dynamic environment conducive to academic and professional development.
Application Details
Further information, including detailed eligibility criteria and guidelines, can be found in the ESRC PDF Call specification. You can also review our ESRC PDF FAQs for additional insights.
For those interested in the future fellowship calls, the “Eligible Disciplinary Pathways” can be reviewed on our Funding Eligibility.
Applicants interested in applying should contact the bid support team in each university as soon as possible. Each university will have a process cycle for handling funding applications in terms of budgeting, review, and approval. Please keep this in mind when you are considering the fellowship application to make sure you have sufficient time.
- For University of Brighton, we are informed that the applicant will need to email bidsupport@brighton.ac.uk before 7th of Feb 2025 to submit an expression of interest of the SCDTP fellowship scheme.
- For University of Southampton, please identify a mentor and contact: scdtp@soton.ac.uk, as soon as possible.
- For University of Portsmouth, please identify a mentor and contact: hssrio@port.ac.uk, as soon as possible.
- For University of Chichester, please contact: charles.green@chi.ac.uk, as soon as possible.
Fellowships will commence on 1st October 2025.
The closing date for the call will be 25 March 2025.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have further questions.
Thank you for your interest in the ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship scheme.
