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Visiting Professorships

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 in the UK. Priority will be given to new or recent collaborations and visits with a variety of activities beyond research.

Value

Applications are invited for a minimum of £10,000 and a maximum of £150,000.

Duration

A Visiting Professorship must last at least 3 months. Grants between 3 and 6 months must be completed in one visit. Grants between 6 and 12 months can be spread over two or more visits, with 12 months being the maximum duration for a visit.

Before beginning your application, please read the information below or download it as a PDF Guidance for Applicants.

AI based application success predictor

According to the Trust’s own guidance, successful applications reflect outstanding scholarship and a distinctive intellectual vision. The following factors are strong predictors of success:

✔ 1. Originality & Intellectual Vision

The Trust prioritises research that is innovative and goes beyond incremental advances — especially where the applicant believes a topic is an important frontier in the field. leverhulme.ac.uk

Success tip: Frame your proposal around questions no one is yet exploring thoroughly and demonstrate how your project will open new avenues for research.

✔ 2. Importance & Broader Relevance

Projects should promise to enable further enquiry and have significance outside a narrow domain. Work that engages with ideas beyond a single discipline is particularly welcome. leverhulme.ac.uk

Success tip: Explain how your research connects to broader intellectual or societal debates.

✔ 3. Methodological Merit & Feasibility

Even for “blue skies” ideas, proposals should have a sound research design and realistic plan for execution that trustees can judge as feasible. leverhulme.ac.uk

Success tip: Provide clear stages, milestones and justification of methods — even in interdisciplinary contexts.

✔ 4. Applicants’ Track Record & Environment

Reviewers assess whether the applicant and host institution are well-placed to realise the research objectives — including evidence of relevant expertise and institutional support. leverhulme.ac.uk

Success tip: Highlight past outputs and institutional commitments that support the project’s success.

✔ 5. Willingness to Take Appropriate Risks

The Trust values work that pushes disciplinary boundaries or takes intellectual risks with potential for high scholarly payoff. leverhulme.ac.uk

Success tip: Make a compelling case for why the risk is justified and how it might lead to significant new insights.

🧠 Practical Application Tips

✔ Match scheme to career stage: Research Project Grants suit established projects; Early Career or Major Fellowships fit career development needs. leverhulme.ac.uk+1
✔ Justify why Leverhulme is the right funder: Explicitly explain why other funders aren’t more suitable, especially when the Trust’s distinctive remit is about originality. leverhulme.ac.uk
✔ Build a compelling narrative: Articulate why this project matters now and its scholarly impact over time. leverhulme.ac.uk
✔ Demonstrate feasibility without over-specifying rigid outcomes: Trust reviewers value flexibility when managing ambitious research. leverhulme.ac.uk

📌 Summary: Leverhulme Trust Success Checklist

Predictor	Why It Matters
Originality & risk-taking	Core to Trust mission. leverhulme.ac.uk
Importance & broad relevance	Signals impact beyond narrow fields. leverhulme.ac.uk
Strong methodology	Ensures feasible scholarship. leverhulme.ac.uk
Competent investigator	Shows ability to deliver. leverhulme.ac.uk
Appropriate scheme match	Aligns award to career and goals.

Specialties

Public Health

Eligibility Requirements

Applications must be made by a member of academic staff, based in a UK university with research degree awarding powers, who will be responsible for coordinating the visit. Some specialist arts institutions are permitted to apply for Visiting Professorships.

The host academic’s employing institution must also agree to administer the grant, if awarded, and to provide appropriate facilities for the Visiting Professor.

Visitors who have previously held a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship can only apply if at least 7 years have elapsed since the last one.

The over-riding criteria for selection are:

the academic standing and achievements of the visitors in terms of their research and/or teaching
their potential for making a substantial contribution to skills in the host institution
the specific and systematic nature of the proposed programme while in the UK

In special circumstances, the Trust Board is prepared to consider candidates who do not hold a university post.

Collaborative research alone will not be a sufficient justification for a grant. The emphasis should be on the diffusion of skills and expertise. Priority will be given to new or recent collaborative ventures.

Where a visit builds on an existing collaboration, the host should explain what the visit(s) will achieve over and above past outcomes.

It is the intention that the visitor will provide a degree of expertise that is not otherwise available within the UK research base.

Visiting Professors will be expected to offer a short course of "Leverhulme Lectures” to mark their residence in a UK institution.

The Trust will not fund applications for research of which advocacy forms an explicit component.

The Trust does not support research which is aimed principally at an immediate commercial application.

The Trust will not fund applications in which the balance between assembling a data bank or database and the related subsequent research is heavily inclined to the former.

Eligible fields of study

Applications will be considered in all subject areas except:

studies of disease, illness and disabilities in humans and animals
research that is intended to inform clinical practice or the development of medical applications

The Trusts always excludes these areas because substantial funding is available from other sources for applied medical research and the Trust’s priority is to support investigations of a fundamental nature.

Sponsor Details

Sponsor Institute/Organizations: Leverhulme Trust

Sponsor Type: Corporate/Non-Profit

Address: 1 Pemberton Row London EC4A 3BG

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