The L'Oréal UK Fellowships For Women In Science have been created to promote, celebrate, enhance and encourage the role and achievements of UK women in the fields of the life and physical sciences.
The National Fellowships are offered under the umbrella of the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science Programme, which has promoted women in scientific research on a global scale since 1998.
Four Fellowships will be awarded in 2008 to outstanding women scientists in the early stages of their career to enable and/or facilitate promising scientific research. The Fellowships are tenable at any UK or Irish university or research institute to support a 12-month period of postdoctoral research in any area of the life or physical sciences.
The value of each fellowship is £15,000 (equivalent € for candidates in Ireland).The prize money can be spent in innovative ways to enable women scientists to pursue and continue their research careers - such as buying equipment, paying for childcare or funding travel costs to an overseas conference.
The closing date deadline for the 2008 Fellowships is Wednesday 2 April.
Further details can be found at:
http://www.unesco.org.uk/For_Women_In_Science.htm