Faraday Institution Fellowships (Industry & Entrepreneurial)

Faraday Institution Fellowships

Offers researcher fellowships linking universities, industry, and the Faraday mission to advance energy-storage breakthroughs.

The Faraday Institution runs two fellowship tracks on a continuously open basis, both focused on advancing the UK's electrochemical energy storage research and commercialisation capabilities. The Institution is the UK's independent institute for battery research, convening more than 500 researchers across 25 UK universities and 148 UK industry partners, and is funded primarily through UKRI/EPSRC and Innovate UK via the Faraday Battery Challenge — which represents £190 million or more of the £610 million programme — with an additional Battery Innovation Programme of £452 million running through 2030.

The Industry Fellowship track strengthens ties between UK industry and academic battery researchers, supporting knowledge exchange that benefits both the industrial partner and the academic institution. The Entrepreneurial Fellowship track is designed to create business opportunities from Faraday Institution research, supporting researchers seeking to commercialise findings from FI-funded projects. Both tracks are listed as open on the Faraday Institution opportunities index, with applications submitted via the Flexi-Grant portal; award amounts are not published on the index page and must be confirmed directly with the Institution. Applicants must be affiliated with UK universities, and primary supervisors must meet UKRI/EPSRC eligibility requirements.

Successful fellowship applicants typically demonstrate a clear line between their proposed work and one of the Faraday Institution's three research strands — materials development and pack design, sustainable manufacture and recycling, or next-generation technology demonstrators — or a credible pathway to commercialisation for the Entrepreneurial track. Organisations and individuals interested in either fellowship should contact the Faraday Institution directly at Harwell Campus or monitor the opportunities page at faraday.ac.uk/opportunities/ for the current brief, as detailed eligibility criteria and award values are published per call cycle rather than at programme level.