*Deadline: 11 December 2017 *
*Details:* Commonwealth Rutherford Fellowships are for highly skilled researchers from other Commonwealth countries to spend one or two years at an eligible UK university or higher education institution conducting postdoctoral research. The University would act as host organisation to the researcher for the duration of the Fellowship.
Purpose: To support world-class research and innovation, and to contribute to the UK's research base by attracting high-calibre international candidates and encouraging links and collaboration.
Intended beneficiaries: Highly skilled and highly motivated PhD graduates whose proposed research topic is innovative, timely, and likely to lead to wider impact beyond the academic community and build research collaboration between the UK and other Commonwealth countries
*Eligibility:* There are a number of eligibility criteria but in essence the Fellowships are intended to attract excellent researchers to the UK. So applicants should be permanently resident in a Commonwealth country other than the UK, and not based in the UK at the time of application.
*Further information:*http://cscuk.dfid.gov.uk/apply/rutherford-fellowships/
Commonwealth Member Countries: http://thecommonwealth.org/member-countries
Contact: Catherine Burns, Research Support Office, Head of Strategic Research Development:_Catherine.Burns@ed.ac.uk _