# Information about UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Round 11, Department of Engineering Science at Oxford Process

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## UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships - round 11

**Oxford Department of Engineering Science** **EOI Deadline**: 15 December 2025

#### Overview

The FLF scheme provides long-term support to enable exceptional early-career researchers and innovators to establish independence through ambitious, long-term programmes. The fellowship provides up to 4 years’ funding with a possible 3-year extension (4 + 3 model), covering salary, research expenses, and staff costs.

Further information is available on the [UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship webpage](https://www.ukri.org/what-we-do/developing-people-and-skills/future-leaders-fellowships/). The 2026 (Round 11) has not yet been announced.

#### Departmental Process

**To apply, you will need to find a suitable permanent member of faculty (an academic with Associate Professor status or above) to act as your host academic first** and contact them to confirm whether they will support your application. Please see [our list of academics](/people?c=ac).

We cannot process applications that do not have the support of a permanent faculty member. When you have confirmed support from a host academic, you should ask your host academic to contact the Research Office on your behalf with a copy of your narrative CV (R4RI) and regular CV as soon as possible and no later than **Monday 15 December 2025**. The narrative CV (R4RI) template is available at [Résumé for Research and Innovation](https://www.ukri.org/apply-for-funding/develop-your-application/resume-for-research-and-innovation-r4ri-guidance/) and further guidance is available at [Developing a narrative CV](https://www.ox.ac.uk/research/support-researchers/research-culture-oxford/developing-narrative-cv-guidance-researchers).

Please be aware that there are a number of internal sifts for this call, which is why the internal processes begin well in advance of the funder deadline:

1. Engineering Science Departmental sift (expected deadline: January)
2. MPLS Divisional sift (expected deadline: February)
3. Cross-Divisional sift to select the Oxford applicants who will submit to UKRI (expected deadline: June)

Further deadline dates will be announced in due course once UKRI make public their pre-announcement.