The L’Oréal UK and Ireland Fellowships For Women In Science are awards offered by L’Oréal UK & Ireland with the support of the UK National Commission for UNESCO, the Irish National Commission for UNESCO, the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the UK Resource Centre for Women in SET to promote and celebrate, enhance and encourage, the role and achievements of women pursuing their research careers in the UK or Ireland in the fields of the life or physical sciences.

Four Fellowships will be awarded in 2009 to outstanding women scientists at postdoctoral level to enable and/or facilitate promising scientific research in the life or physical sciences. The Fellowships, each worth £15,000 (equivalent € for candidates in Ireland), are tenable at any UK or Irish university or research institute to support a 12-month period of research. The award can be spent in innovative ways to enable women scientists to pursue and continue their research careers – such as buying equipment, paying for childcare or funding travel costs to an overseas conference.

If someone in your organisation is interested in applying, details of the awards including the online application are available at http://www.unesco.org.uk/FWIS_National.htm and www.womeninscience.co.uk

Online application deadline: 8 April 2009, midnight (GMT)

ELIGIBILITY - SUMMARY 

• Candidates must be female postdoctoral researchers who have already been awarded their research doctorate.
• Candidates must have no more than 8 years active full-time postdoctoral experience (discounting career breaks, but including teaching experience and/or time spent in industry).
• Candidates must be undertaking research in the life or physical sciences.
• Candidates must be conducting their research at a UK or Irish university or research institute.
• Candidates must be a citizen of the European Economic Area (EEA), or a Swiss citizen, or have permanent residence status in the UK or Ireland; and must be residing in the UK or Ireland at the time of application.
• N.B. Candidates returning to scientific research after a career break are eligible to apply.