Personal fellowships
Potential fellowship applicants should check the current calls section for details of open fellowship calls. The department supports applications to all fully funded schemes. Support for other schemes are considered on a case-by-case basis.
The steps for preparing a fellowship application are given below.
Identifying an Oxford contact: Once you have identified the scheme to which you intend to apply, you should in the first instance make contact with a faculty member in the MI. That faculty member will indicate whether it is possible to support your application. You should also reconfirm that your planned programme of work conforms to the fellowship scheme's remit, and also that you meet all of the eligibility criteria set out in the call documentation.
Notice of intent: After the Mathematical Institute faculty member has agreed to support your application, you should send an email indicating your intent to apply to the Research Facilitator.
Guidance and templates: You will then be provided with any guidelines or templates related to the preparation of the application. In the event that an internal ranking of fellowship applications is required (for instance, when there is a quota on the number of applications to a particular scheme), any preliminary materials related to that internal sift will be requested.
Draft application: Four weeks before the funding body's deadline, you must send Research Facilitation a full draft of the application, having completed all relevant sections of the application (ordinarily with the exception of the budget). This allows three weeks for departmental review and budget preparation, and one week for central university approval.
Online application submission: You should set up your application account (for instance, on Je-S for research council applications, on e-GAP2 for Royal Society applications, etc), and grant view/edit access to the relevent members of research faclitation for your application.
Budget: To prepare the budget for your application, you will need to provide information as set out in this document. Please send the information to the Research Facilitator.
Feedback and redrafting: In the weeks after you send the draft application, you will be provided with feedback on your draft application and will be expected to respond to questions in a timely fashion, and to make amendments to your application as appropriate.
Departmental approval: Toward the end of the third week, provided that budgets are ready and substantive amendments are made, the application will be considered for departmental approval. You should not submit your application to the funding body until you have been given formal notification that departmental approval has been granted.
Institutional approval: If the department gives its approval of the application, then the application will be sent for institutional approval a minimum of one week before the funding body's deadline. This approval stage is the last before applications are submitted to the funding body.
Peer-review process: In the event that you receive referees' reports on your application and are invited to provide a response, you should send those reports immediately to the Research Facilitator, who will assist you in preparing a suitable response.