Edinburgh Career Development Scheme (ECDS)

The specific fellowships offered under the ECDS reflect the diverse needs and contexts across our three academic Colleges and potential applicants should visit the College webpages for further details.

Innovation Fellowships

These fellowships will be coordinated by Edinburgh Innovations and are designed to enable recently completed PhDs to exploit commercialisation potential from their research. 

Innovation Fellows Application Process

Innovation Fellows -  Find out more from current Innovation Fellows

The Bayes Centre Announces Second Cohort of Bayes Innovation Fellows

EFI Fellowships

The Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) aims to deepen engagement with Schools across the University by offering these single-semester fellowships to a range of researchers based elsewhere in the University.

There will be a maximum of 8 fellowships available with the specific objective of generating large applications to funding bodies such as UKRI and ERC. The fellowships also aim to promote the development of new multidisciplinary dimensions to the researchers’ work during the tenure of their fellowships.  

The deadline for applications will be 12 noon on Monday 16th March 2026 

EFI Fellowships

Support for fellowship applications

Central level support for postdoctoral researchers