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L’Oréal UK and Ireland Fellowships For Women In Science
Download: 2008 Application Form ( 249kb 12 pages) Download: 2008 Application Guidelines ( 158kb  65kb 3 pages)
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The L’Oréal UK and Ireland Fellowships For Women In Science are awards offered by L’Oréal UK & Ireland with the support of the UK National Commission for UNESCO, the Irish National Commission for UNESCO, the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the UK Resource Centre for Women in SET to promote and celebrate, enhance and encourage, the role and achievements of women pursuing their research careers in the UK or Ireland in the fields of the life or physical sciences.
 Four Fellowships will be awarded in 2008 to outstanding women scientists at postdoctoral level to enable and/or facilitate promising scientific research in the life or physical sciences. The Fellowships, each worth £15,000 (equivalent € for candidates in Ireland), are tenable at any UK or Irish university or research institute to support a 12-month period of research.
The award 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.
2008 AWARDS
 The winners of the four 2008 L’Oreal UK and Ireland Fellowships For Women In Science were announced on 2 July 2008 at an awards ceremony at the Royal Institution in London.
On the occasion of the awards, Baroness Susan Greenfield, chair of the jury panel commented, “It’s crazy to disadvantage 50% of the scientific workforce. It’s crazy to invest in educating and training people and then ignore them and their talent in later life. Women can bring a different dimension to science that has perhaps not been recognised over the course of history and today’s awards ceremony celebrates that fact. That is why the L’Oréal fellowships have been designed to be totally flexible. Winners may choose to spend their fellowship award on paying for childcare costs, or buying an assistant’s time – whatever enables them to continue with their research in a way that suits them.”
The judging panel for 2008 comproses Baroness Greenfield CBE (chair), Professor Alec Boksenberg CBE FRS FInstP; Dr Raniero De Stasio; Professor Athene Donald FRS; Professor Jane Grimson; Professor Julia King CBE FREng; Mary Mulvihill; Professor Claudio Stern; Annette Williams; Phil Willis MP.
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Winners
2008
2007
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ELIGIBILITY: SUMMARY
 Candidates must be female postdoctoral researchers who have already been awarded their PhD.
Candidates must have no more than 8 years active full-time postdoctoral experience (discounting career breaks, but including teaching experience and/or time spent in industry).
Candidates must be undertaking research in the life or physical sciences.
Candidates must be conducting their research at a UK or Irish university or research institute.
Candidates must be a citizen of the European Economic Area (EEA), or a Swiss citizen, or have permanent residence status in the UK or Ireland; and must be residing in the UK or Ireland at the time of application.
N.B. Candidates returning to scientific research after a career break are eligible to apply.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Refer to the downloads at the top of this page.
For any further enquiries, email forwomeninscience@uk.loreal.com
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