The Borysiewicz Interdisciplinary Fellowship was developed to provide career enhancement to support outstanding researchers seeking to shape the future for the betterment of society. It was created in honour of Sir Leszek Borysiewicz who, as Vice-Chancellor of the University, led and shaped the development of key provisions for Cambridge’s postdoc community.
Programme overview
The programme provided a unique mixture of purposeful engagement opportunities for postdocs both within and outside their area of expertise, developing their skills as leaders and culminating in a chance to pursue truly independent work in a funded project of their own.
Through a programme of leadership and entrepreneurship training and group projects, the Fellowship enabled these researchers to focus on a range of global challenges in addition to their primary research and in collaboration with fellows and expert contributors across all academic disciplines.
The Borysiewicz Fellows acquired the confidence to apply their skills to complex challenges across the research, innovation, and policy fields as they took their next steps towards career independence.
Where are they now?
We caught up with the first cohort of Fellows in a two-part podcast to find out what they did after completing their Fellowships in 2019.
In part one, we talked to three incredible individuals who have embarked on amazing careers outside of academia - spanning the United Nations, World Health Organisation, Amazon, and national government:
In part two, we talked to three amazing researchers who have forged successful academic careers in the UK and Brazil:
Biographies of the Fellows
The Borysiewicz Fellowships took some of the most innovative and ambitious Cambridge postdocs and developed them into future leaders who went on to pursue a range of global questions and problems.
Find out more about the Fellows: