1851 Royal Commission Research Fellowship in Design Fellowship

The next Design Fellowship will open in 2022

The Commission will be awarding the next Fellowship in Design in 2022.

Full details, including the title of the project, will be posted on this site in June 2022 when applications will be invited. The value of the award is £50,000 per year. Applications are welcome from post-graduates, researchers, practitioners or professionals on a career break. Entries will be accepted not only from individuals but also from formal or informal partnerships.

Introduced in 2006, awards have been made for research into:

• Design for Resilience
• The Future of Business in Design
• The Link between Technology and Productive Industry
• Connecting the New Economy with the Old
• 3D Printing – A Genuine Industrial Revolution
• Techno Push / Consumer Pull
• Healthier Cities
• Design and ‘Fake News’