Opportunities for Early career in the United Kingdom — OppIDX

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📍 London, UK; San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Washington, DCMedium

#software engineering

Apply → job-boards.greenhouse.io

Early Career

Multiverse Tech Apprenticeship

Multiverse

Employer-sponsored apprenticeships (e.g. Data Science, Software Engineering, Project Management) that combine a full-time paid job with structured coursework and 1:1 coaching toward an industry-recognized qualification, without requiring a college degree.

📍 United States and United Kingdom (employer-dependent)PaidMedium

Apply → multiverse.io

Early Career

AR Emerging Architecture Awards

The Architectural Review

A long-running award (since 1999) recognizing up-and-coming architecture, urban design, and landscape practices, with several past winners now internationally renowned.

📍 United Kingdom (international entrants)PaidHard

#award#architecture#emerging-practice

Apply → emerging.architectural-review.com

Early Career

Chatham House Academy Fellowship

Chatham House

A ten-month in-person international affairs research fellowship in London, with four fellows selected per cohort.

📍 London, United KingdomStipendHard

#fellowship#international-affairs#uk

Apply → careers.chathamhouse.org

Early Career

Chatham House Global Platform for Action Fellowship

Chatham House

A ten-month in-person London fellowship on humanitarian energy and climate/displacement policy, run with UNITAR and Oxford's Refugee-Led Research Hub.

📍 London, United KingdomStipendHard

#fellowship#climate-policy#humanitarian

Apply → chathamhouse.org

Early Career

Herchel Smith Postdoctoral Research Fellowship

Herchel Smith Fund, University of Cambridge

Supports early-career researchers in biological and physical sciences, including chemistry and mathematics, at Cambridge.

📍 Cambridge, United KingdomStipendHard

#fellowship#science#postdoc

Apply → herchelsmith.cam.ac.uk

Early Career

One World Media Fellowship

One World Media

A year-long program supporting global journalism and documentary storytelling from the Global South, with an assigned executive producer and workshops.

📍 United Kingdom (Global South focus)PaidMedium

#fellowship#journalism#global-south

Apply → oneworldmedia.org.uk

Early Career

British Academy International Fellowship

The British Academy

Supports emerging international research talent, including health-related humanities and social science work, to spend two years based in the United Kingdom.

📍 United Kingdom (international applicants)PaidHard

#fellowship#research#uk

Apply → thebritishacademy.ac.uk

Early Career

Royal Society Newton International Fellowship

The Royal Society (UK)

Funds early-career overseas researchers, including in biomedical and health sciences, to conduct two years of research in the United Kingdom.

📍 United Kingdom (international applicants)PaidHard

#fellowship#research#uk

Apply → royalsociety.org

Early Career

MQ Mental Health Foundation Fellows Award

MQ Mental Health Research

Supports early-career mental health scientists to establish research independence, funding work across depression, psychosis, and related domains.

📍 United Kingdom (international host institutions considered)StipendHard

#fellowship#mental-health#research

Apply → mqmentalhealth.org

Early Career

Commonwealth Professional Fellowships

Commonwealth Scholarship Commission (UK)

A short-term professional development placement (six weeks to three months) in the UK for mid-career professionals from Commonwealth developing countries.

📍 United KingdomPaidHard

#fellowship#professional-development#uk

Apply → cscuk.fcdo.gov.uk

Early Career

Sir Harry Evans Global Fellowship in Investigative Journalism

Reuters / Durham University

A nine-month fellowship pairing early-career journalists with Reuters mentors to build investigative-reporting skills, combining newsroom placement with academic study at Durham.

📍 United KingdomPaidHard

#fellowship#journalism#investigative

Apply → durham.ac.uk

Early Career

Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity

London School of Economics / Atlantic Institute

A fully funded year at LSE for professionals working to reduce social and economic inequality, combining an academic program with a global fellows network.

📍 London, United KingdomPaidHard

#fellowship#inequality#leadership

Apply → lse.ac.uk

Early Career

Thomson Reuters Foundation Journalist Fellowship Programme

Thomson Reuters Foundation / University of Oxford

A fully funded fellowship at Oxford's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, giving working journalists three to six months to research and reflect on a topic in their field.

📍 Oxford, United KingdomPaidHard

#fellowship#journalism#oxford

Apply → reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk

Early Career

Chevening Scholarships

UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

A UK government scholarship funding a one-year master's degree at any UK university for emerging global leaders, with an emphasis on future impact back home.

📍 United KingdomPaidHard

#scholarship#uk#leadership

Apply → chevening.org

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