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AWARDS BY OUTSIDE BODIES

Leverhulme Trust

LEVERHULME PRIZE FELLOWSHIPS, 2001

Leverhulme Prize Fellowships are designed to recognize and facilitate the work of outstanding young research scholars of proven achievement, who have made and are capable of continuing to make original and significant contributions to knowledge in one of the following disciplines: astronomy and astrophysics, classics, earth sciences, economics, engineering, geography (excluding physical geography), philosophy, and ethics. Approximately thirty Prize Fellowships will be awarded in 2001.

Each Prize Fellowship carries an award of £50,000. This is normally paid in two equal instalments direct to the Prize Fellow. The first payment will be made when the Fellow takes up the Prize, and the second after twelve months, assuming that the Fellow continues to hold an eligible post. Prize Fellowships are awarded for two years. However, Fellows may apply for a no-cost third year extension in exceptional circumstances.

Candidates must hold a post in a UK institution of higher education and should be under the age of thirty-six years at 16 October 2000. However, account may be taken of candidates who began their academic careers late or experienced career changes or breaks. Nominators should make an explicit statement where nominees are over the age of thirty-six years.

Nominations may be made only by the head of the nominee's employing institution. No more than two Prize Fellowships will be granted in any one discipline to any one university. Prize Fellows will be asked to give brief details of the broad area of research for which they accept the Prize, and to provide a brief final report with details of their achievements and how funds were spent at the end of the two years.

The closing date for the receipt of nominations is 4 p.m. on Monday, 16 October 2000. Decisions will be made by the Trustees by the end of February 2001.

Further information is available from the Prize Fellowships, The Leverhulme Trust, 1 Pemberton Row, London, EC4A 3BG (tel. 020 7822 6952, fax 020 7822 5084, e-mail jcater@leverhulme.org.uk).


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Cambridge University Reporter, 7 June 2000
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