Early Career Opportunities

Early Career Opportunities

Research undertaken at Oxford University Museum of Natural History is highly diverse, ranging across palaeobiology, zoology, and geosciences, to heritage, culture, and society. We welcome approaches from postdoctoral researchers carrying out collections-based research in these areas who are interested in holding externally funded fellowships in the Museum.

We are happy to provide advice and support to applicants for independent research fellowships, including:

•   1851 Research Fellowships
•   BBSRC David Phillips Fellowships
•   BBSRC Discovery Fellowships
•   British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
•   Human Frontier Science Program Postdoctoral Fellowships
•   Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships
•   Marie Curie Individual Fellowships
•   Newton International Fellowships
•   NERC Independent Research Fellowships
•   Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
•   Royal Society University Research Fellowships
•   Wellcome Trust Fellowships

If you are interested in applying for funding to work at the Museum, please contact: research@oum.ox.ac.uk

Oxford University Museum of Natural History is seeking expressions of interest from potential applicants applying for externally funded research fellowships in the academic year 2022-23 to base their work in the Museum and become part of the research team here. The Museum will support the development of these applications, which have deadlines between January and February 2023. We ask that potential applicants send us a one-page summary of their planned research by the end of September, including details of how they will undertake specimen-based research and make use of Museum facilities, together with a CV with up to five best publications highlighted.

Further details about research in the Museum are available at: https://www.oumnh.ox.ac.uk/research-0