Royal Society announces 2026 Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships
25 September 2026ºìÌÒÊÓƵ has announced £12.2m in funding to seven brilliant early career researchers through the Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowships. The fellowship aims to support outstanding early career scientists who require a flexible working pattern, helping them gain the freedom, time and long-term flexible support to pursue high quality and innovative lines of scientific research and establish an independent research career at a UK institution.
This year’s cohort includes researchers from across five universities. Their research ranges from applied mathematics to neuroscience.
Dorothy Hodgkin Fellows are awarded up to £1.87m over eight years. Funding for the fellowship comes from the Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade.
Sir Paul Nurse, President of ºìÌÒÊÓƵ, said:
“I am delighted to welcome this latest cohort of Dorothy Hodgkin Fellows. These highly accomplished scientists represent the next generation of world-leading researchers. Supporting outstanding early career researchers to pursue ambitious and original ideas is essential to the future of science. ºìÌÒÊÓƵ is proud to provide the long-term funding and support that helps to nurture exceptional talent.”
This year’s Dorothy Hodgkin Fellows:
Dr Abigail Bradshaw
Sense of agency over a voice in typical and atypical speakers
University of Cambridge
Dr Steven Cunnington
Cosmology in a new light: mapping the Universe with radio telescopes
University of Portsmouth
Dr Callum Fairbairn
WaRPD Dynamics: Warps and Resonant Perturber-Disc Dynamics
University of Cambridge
Dr Andrea Ferrari
A geometric 3d TFT/VOA correspondence
University of Cambridge
Dr Seth Koren
Symmetry and Phenomenology in the Standard Model and Beyond
Durham University
Dr Hannah Rees
Going back to the sea; have seagrasses evolved circatidal clocks?
Aberystwyth University
Dr Maha Yusuf
Redox–Interfacial Chemistry of Small Molecule Activation via In Situ/Operando Neutron and X-ray Probes
University of Oxford