Cambridge Interfaith Programme, Faculty of Divinity, University of CambridgeFellowship

Cambridge Interfaith Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship

Nov 30, 2026 23:59:00 GMT

Opportunity type

Fellowship

Funding

Fully Funded

Location

United Kingdom

Deadline

Nov 30, 2026 23:59:00 GMT

About this opportunity

The Cambridge Interfaith Programme, a research centre in the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Divinity, is looking for an early-career researcher to build an independent three-year project on peace, conflict and religion. This is an internal selection: the chosen candidate is then supported to apply to the Leverhulme Trust for an Early Career Fellowship, and the Faculty match-funds the post only if Leverhulme selects them. Projects using ethnographic or interpretive methods on events from the 1950s onwards are especially welcome, including work on the Middle East.

What you get:

Support from the Cambridge Interfaith Programme to apply for a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship
If Leverhulme selects you, a three-year salaried fellowship: Leverhulme pays all your salary costs up to £56,000 in year one and half of them (up to £28,000 a year) in years two and three, with the Faculty of Divinity paying the rest
Up to £6,000 a year for research expenses, from Leverhulme
Mentoring from the programme's Academic Director

What you'll do:

Develop and carry out your own independent research project on peace, conflict and religion
Take part in the programme's seminars, workshops and other research activities

Key dates:

Applications for internal selection close 30 November 2026
PhD thesis must be submitted for viva before 18 February 2027 if not already submitted

More information:

Applications go by email to the Faculty Manager, Dr Peter Harland (pjh42@cam.ac.uk); referees send references to him directly
Queries to team@interfaith.cam.ac.uk; the programme says it will not answer individual eligibility questions

Who can apply

You must meet the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship eligibility rules
For this cycle, your PhD thesis must have been submitted for viva voce examination no earlier than 18 February 2023, or be submitted before 18 February 2027
Not suitable for anyone who has not completed a PhD, except those submitting before February 2027
Postdoctoral researchers with no existing connection to a UK higher education institution (previous UK study or current UK employment) are not ordinarily eligible
Submit an academic CV (two sides of A4), a publications list (one side), a 250-word research statement, a two-page research proposal for a three-year fellowship, and two references, one normally from outside Cambridge

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Good to know

+A three-year research fellowship at the University of Cambridge on peace, conflict and religion
+Leverhulme pays your full salary costs up to £56,000 in year one and half (up to £28,000) in years two and three, with Cambridge paying the rest, plus up to £6,000 a year for research
+Free to apply, by email

Worth checking yourself

!This is an internal selection: Cambridge chooses one candidate to apply to the Leverhulme Trust, and the fellowship only goes ahead if Leverhulme funds it
!You need a PhD submitted for examination between 18 February 2023 and 18 February 2027
!Applicants with no past or current link to a UK university are not usually eligible
!You must not yet have held a permanent full-time academic post

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