{"id":1519,"date":"2022-06-20T16:41:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T15:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2025-05-19T16:42:46","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:42:46","slug":"kent-researchers-announced-as-new-future-leaders-fellows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/2022\/06\/20\/kent-researchers-announced-as-new-future-leaders-fellows\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent researchers announced as new Future Leaders Fellows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/law\/people\/1334\/parsley-connal\">Dr Connal Parsley<\/a>\u00a0(Kent Law School),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/social-policy-sociology-social-research\/people\/1953\/rajan-rankin-sweta\">Dr Sweta Rajan-Rankin<\/a>\u00a0(School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research), and Dr Daniel Ingram, soon to join the School of Anthropology and Conservation, are part of a cohort of 84 promising future leaders in research and innovation selected for UKRI Fellowships in round six of the \u00a3900m scheme. The Fellowships were created to provide researchers from diverse backgrounds and career paths with the flexibility and time they need to make progress in addressing some of society\u2019s most pressing issues.<\/p>\n<p>On their success,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/office-vice-chancellor\/executive-group\/shane-weller\">Professor Shane Weller<\/a>, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/research\">Research<\/a>\u00a0and Innovation) said: \u2018I am absolutely delighted for Connal, Sweta and Daniel. The UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship scheme is highly competitive, and it is a testament to very high quality of their work that they have received these awards. Their success will enable them to make a very significant contribution in their respective fields.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>UKRI Chief Executive, Professor Dame Ottoline Leyser, said: \u2018The Future Leaders Fellowships provide researchers and innovators with the freedom and generous long-term support to progress adventurous new ideas, and to move across disciplinary boundaries and between academia and industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The fellows announced today [16 June] provide shining examples of the talented researchers and innovators across every discipline attracted to pursue their ideas in universities and businesses throughout the UK, with the potential to deliver transformative research that can be felt across society and the economy.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Building on the success of the \u00a3900 million invested in the first six rounds of the Future Leaders Fellowship scheme, UKRI has committed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/opportunity\/future-leaders-fellowships-round-7\/\">\u00a3100 million for a seventh round<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme helps universities and businesses in the UK recruit, develop and retain the world\u2019s best researchers and innovators, regardless of their background. Researchers can apply for substantial long-term funding to support their research or innovation and develop their careers, with each fellowship lasting for between four and seven years.<\/p>\n<p>The projects will be an important part of the Government\u2019s ambition to cement the UK\u2019s status as a global leader in research and innovation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-31769\" src=\"https:\/\/static.kent.ac.uk\/media\/news\/2022\/06\/UKRI20logo-300x88.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"183\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Connal Parsley\u00a0(Kent Law School),\u00a0Dr Sweta Rajan-Rankin\u00a0(School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research), and Dr Daniel Ingram, soon to join the School of Anthropology &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/2022\/06\/20\/kent-researchers-announced-as-new-future-leaders-fellows\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74795,"featured_media":1520,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9112,282611],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions\/1521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/ris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}