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Youth Endowment Fund VAWG Research Fellowship

  • Organization: Youth Endowment Fund
  • Type: Fellowship
  • Location: United Kingdom
  • Deadline: September 8, 2026
  • Age: No age restriction
  • Funding: Fully Funded

The Youth Endowment Fund hosts one of three UKRI What Works Innovation Fellowships on preventing violence against women and girls. Over 18 months you would lead research into what stops VAWG perpetration among young people, with a particular interest in online harms and tech-facilitated abuse, and help launch a National What Works Programme coordinated by the Cabinet Office. It sits at the point where research actually reaches policy. **What you get:** - An 18 month fellowship funded by UKRI's Research and Development Missions Accelerator Programme - A base inside a government-backed What Works Centre, with YEF's Data and Insight and Toolkit teams around you - A leading role in launching a National What Works Programme on VAWG - Work alongside the Cabinet Office, UKRI, universities and VAWG sector services - Hybrid working from YEF's London office, with two office visits a month expected - A fellowship you co-design with your host centre rather than one handed to you **What you'll do:** - Lead research filling evidence gaps on VAWG prevention, focused on online harms and tech-facilitated abuse - Develop YEF's annual Child Vulnerability and Violence survey with the Data and Insight team - Summarise the best available research for YEF's Toolkit - Review VAWG prevention practice across England and Wales to inform programme design - Manage YEF-commissioned secondary data analysis projects on VAWG

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Youth Endowment Fund VAWG Research Fellowship

Sep 08, 2026 16:00:00 GMT
Opportunity type
Fellowship
Funding
Fully Funded
Location
United Kingdom
Deadline
Sep 08, 2026 16:00:00 GMT

About this opportunity

The Youth Endowment Fund hosts one of three UKRI What Works Innovation Fellowships on preventing violence against women and girls. Over 18 months you would lead research into what stops VAWG perpetration among young people, with a particular interest in online harms and tech-facilitated abuse, and help launch a National What Works Programme coordinated by the Cabinet Office. It sits at the point where research actually reaches policy.

What you get:

  • An 18 month fellowship funded by UKRI's Research and Development Missions Accelerator Programme
  • A base inside a government-backed What Works Centre, with YEF's Data and Insight and Toolkit teams around you
  • A leading role in launching a National What Works Programme on VAWG
  • Work alongside the Cabinet Office, UKRI, universities and VAWG sector services
  • Hybrid working from YEF's London office, with two office visits a month expected
  • A fellowship you co-design with your host centre rather than one handed to you

What you'll do:

  • Lead research filling evidence gaps on VAWG prevention, focused on online harms and tech-facilitated abuse
  • Develop YEF's annual Child Vulnerability and Violence survey with the Data and Insight team
  • Summarise the best available research for YEF's Toolkit
  • Review VAWG prevention practice across England and Wales to inform programme design
  • Manage YEF-commissioned secondary data analysis projects on VAWG

Who can apply

  • No age limit stated
  • You must be based at a UK employing organisation that is eligible for UKRI funding
  • A PhD or equivalent research experience
  • Expertise in criminology and law, gender studies, behavioural science, psychology, public policy, economics, epidemiology, public health or data science
  • Open to all research career stages
  • Able to travel to the London office twice a month across all phases
  • Submit a CV and an application statement, three pages each at most
  • No application fees

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Good to know

  • +Funded by UKRI and hosted by a What Works Centre endowed by the Home Office, so both the money and the institution are solid
  • +The official fellowship PDF sets out the phases, the FTE split and the office expectations in detail
  • +Open to all career stages, and no security clearance is needed to start

Worth checking yourself

  • !You must already be employed by a UK organisation eligible for UKRI funding, which rules out almost anyone not already inside UK research
  • !A PhD or equivalent research experience is required, so this is not a youth opportunity despite the host's name
  • !No salary, grant value or day rate is published on the page or in the fellowship PDF
  • !The work means sustained exposure to material on violence against women and girls
  • !A basic DBS check may be required depending on how the research develops
  • !Funding is not stated. The host publishes no salary, grant value or day rate.

What we could not confirm

  • ?Neither the careers page nor the official fellowship PDF states the money. There is no salary, no grant figure and no day rate, so you cannot tell what you would be paid before you apply
  • ?Funding amount

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Youth Endowment Fund VAWG Research Fellowship
Sep 08, 2026 16:00:00 GMT