Research Fellowships at British Universities

Abstract

THE directors of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., have offered to provide eighty fellowships at nine universities in Great Britain, to be held by senior workers in certain sciences. The scheme is announced to operate for an initial period of seven years, and the fellowships will be of the average value of £600 a year, though the universities will have power to determine the emolument for each particular appointment. The subjects to which the fellowships are to be devoted are laid down as physics, chemistry and the sciences dependent thereon, including chemotherapy. The administration of the scheme rests wholly with the universities, which will select and appoint the fellows, subject only to such conditions as to duties and tenure as the universities themselves impose. No conditions whatever are attached by I.C.I, to the tenure of these fellowships. The fellows will be members of the university staffs, and will be concerned only with the duties laid upon them by the universities. Their primary work will lie in research; but they must also take some part in university teaching. It is intended not to relieve the universities from the cost of maintaining any part of their normal work, but to enable them to add to what they already do. The universities to which this offer has been made comprise the larger metropolitan universities and those which have a close geographical relation to the main centres of the Company's production. Twelve fellowships have been offered to the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and London, eight to the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham and Liverpool and four to the University of Durham.