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The Academy’s strategy for 2025–2030 is to engineer better lives by building a sustainable and innovative economy, harnessing technology to improve lives, and growing an engineering community fit for the future. A core part of this is supporting talent development and diversity, ensuring our grant award-holders reflect the diverse, world-class engineering workforce we are striving to build.
In line with this, the Academy aims to provide additional support to applicants from groups that are persistently underrepresented within UK engineering through the grant application process. This positive action will contribute to improving diversity in the talent pipeline and widening the diversity of applicants and awardees within the Academy’s research grant schemes. Please see specific Access Mentoring guidance for each grant scheme.
To be eligible for Access Mentoring support, applicants must be either:
- Women
- Black people (including any mixed ethnicity groups that include Black ethnic backgrounds)
- Disabled people.
The Academy accepts applicants’ self-declaration on the above identified underrepresented groups.
Eligible applicants are not obligated to undertake Access Mentoring.
Access Mentoring is now open for applicants to the following schemes:
| UK Intelligence Community Postoctoral Research Fellowships | Deadline 31 March 2026, 4pm BST |
PLEASE NOTE: Access Mentoring is a resource-limited opportunity. Applicants do not need to wait until the deadline to submit and early submission is encouraged. Mentors will be assigned on a first come first served basis. Early submission is encouraged.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact the Research Team at [email protected] to discuss options.