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Visiting Professorships
Funding
£10,000 – £150,000
Deadline
1 September 2026
Location
England
Applications
Applications closed
Overview
The Leverhulme Trust offers funding for UK institutions to invite senior professors from overseas. You can get £10,000 to £150,000 to bring an expert to your institution for 3 to 12 months. The visiting professor must bring new expertise in an underrepresented research area in the UK. This funding helps enhance skills and knowledge of your academic staff and students. The deadline is 1 May 2026. Only UK institutions can apply for this grant.
Requirements to check
Who can apply:
Key requirements:
- Must invite senior professor from overseas
- Must be for underrepresented research area in UK
- Visit must be 3-12 months
UK institutions can apply
This summary may not include every exclusion. Check the full eligibility rules, including who and what the funder will not support.
This grant is for UK academic institutions looking to bring overseas expertise to their research teams. You need to identify a senior professor from abroad who can contribute novel knowledge in an underrepresented research area. This is not for individual researchers or non-academic organisations.
Sectors
Regions
No published award history for The Leverhulme Trust. Some funders do not publish their grants data.
Full details from The Leverhulme Trust
For UK institutions to invite an eminent senior professor from overseas, to bring genuinely novel expertise and enhance the skills and knowledge of academic staff and students in an underrepresented area of research. Priority given to new or recent collaborations with variety of activities beyond research.
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