Education Endowment Foundation – UKRI Fellowship

Spend 18 months as an EEF-UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) fellow to work on the synthesis and mobilisation of evidence to support children with special educational needs. The fellowship will focus on how to best translate and use existing evidence around interventions to support children with SEND. We are open to fellows building on existing research projects, according to their interests and expertise, and then working with the core EEF team to identify innovative ways of using the existing evidence base to support practice.

You will:
-work with core EEF teams on how existing evidence can be translated into findings that support teachers and school leaders and are communicated through a variety of evidence products (e.g. guidance reports).
-support EEF teams to identify gaps between evidence and practice that might form the basis for future primary research from the EEF.
-work with other stakeholders across education (e.g. policymakers) to strategically respond to evidence needs around support for children with SEND.

You must:
-be based at a UK based employing organisation eligible for UKRI funding
-have a PhD or equivalent experience
-be a researcher in an eligible discipline in accordance with the specific position applied for.

Who can apply
To lead a project, you must be based at an eligible organisation.

Who is eligible to apply:
-this funding opportunity is open to academics who hold a PhD or equivalent research experience as well as relevant subject matter or methodological expertise.
-this fellowship is open to applicants of all career stages.

Who is not eligible to apply:
-academics who have already undertaken or are currently undertaking a UKRI policy fellowship.

This will be an 18-month fellowship of up to £220,000 fEC (with UKRI covering 80% of the costs). For full information including a person specification please download the attached specification.

Deadline
EEF must receive your application by 22 October 2025 at 11.59pm UK time.
You will not be able to apply after this time.


Interviews
For shortlisted applications, representatives from the EEF will conduct interviews with applicants, before making funding recommendations to UKRI. UKRI will make the final funding decisions.
Interviews are expected to take place in the week commencing 3 November 2025 and will be managed by the EEF.