The School of the Arts at the University of Liverpool invites expressions of interest for the 2025 Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship scheme. These awards offer opportunities for outstanding early career researchers to strengthen their experience of research and teaching in a university environment – further information, including eligibility criteria, can be found on the Leverhulme Trust website.
The University of Liverpool is one of the United Kingdom’s leading research institutions with an annual turnover of £400 million, including £140 million for research. Liverpool is ranked in the top 1% of universities worldwide and is a member of the prestigious Russell Group, comprising the leading research universities in the United Kingdom.
Research in the Department of Music encompasses the broad spectrum of music studies, from the Middle Ages to the present day, and from musicology to cutting-edge creative practice, performance, and audience research. Our department is also home to two research centres: the Interdisciplinary Centre for Composition and Technology (ICCaT) and the Institute of Popular Music (IPM), which provides a hub for interdisciplinary research on popular music, broadly defined.
The Leverhulme scheme supports research in several key areas of current strength within our research environment, including:
- Popular music (we welcome projects related to the IPM Archive)
- Musicology (early music, 19th-century music, 20th-century music, music in film and games)
- Analysis and aesthetics
- Music psychology and audience research
Research activity is supported by a regular series of seminars and performances, an annual postgraduate research symposium, and special symposia and conferences.
Specialist in-house resources and facilities for research include extensive library and archival collections, a state-of-the-art recording studio and computing suites, the Tung Auditorium, and a Game Design and Audiovisual Media Suite.
Those interested in applying for a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship are invited to submit expressions of interest to the Research & Impact Team at sotares@liverpool.ac.uk, by Monday 4th November 2024, consisting of:
- The completed Leverhulme ECF Expression of Interest pro-forma
- CV (2 pages max)
- A list of publications (1 page max – please use the following headings: ‘In preparation’, ‘Submitted’ and ‘Published’)
You can find more guidance and a downloadable ECF Expression of Interest pro-forma on the University’s Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship information page.
The School Research Team will notify selected candidates of the outcome by week commencing 16th December 2024. All shortlisted candidates will then be invited to attend a Faculty workshop over Zoom, taking place during week commencing 6th January 2025, date/time tbc, which will include presentations and advice about the scheme.
Following the workshop, candidates will be asked to submit their fully developed application outline for final peer-review and selection by a cross-Faculty panel by Monday 20th January 2025, by 12pm. The final application is to be completed and submitted on the Leverhulme Grants Management System in advance to allow time for internal checks and approvals) by Thursday 13th February 2025, 5pm. The deadline for final submission to the Leverhulme Trust is Thursday 20th February 2025, 4pm.