Each year, Trinity College invites applications for Junior Research Fellowships from a wide range of candidates from any background. The Fellowships are available in all branches of University studies.

Applications for Fellowships commencing in October 2027 will open in mid-June 2026.

Our Research Fellowship provides an opportunity to spend up to four years in Cambridge undertaking post‐doctoral research or scholarly work at an early stage of an academic career; this research may be on a topic essentially of the Fellow’s own choice. However, for an experimental scientist, suitable arrangements must be made with one of the laboratories in the University, and if short-listed a letter obtained detailing those arrangements.

The basic obligation of a Research Fellow is to engage full‐time in research and its dissemination. Like all Fellows, Research Fellows are welcome – indeed encouraged – to participate fully in the life and activities of the College. Research Fellows are not required to contribute to teaching, although a Fellow who wishes to do so may undertake, for extra payment, some limited teaching within the College and University. The number of Research Fellows elected varies from year to year depending on the strength of competition; in recent years it has been between 6 and 8.

Our Research Fellows have typically gone on to obtain faculty positions at prestigious universities worldwide and have received various awards of distinction in their own field.