The College of Science at Swansea University is encouraging applications for 2-year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships (http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/ECF/ECF.cfm) and has announced a competition to attract external candidates to apply. The Glaciology Group at Swansea (http://www.swansea.ac.uk/geography/Research/Glaciology/_) would be keen to encourage applicants in snow and ice research.
The Leverhulme deadline for final fellowship applications is 10th March 2011. If you are interested in applying for such a fellowship in the first instance please contact the staff member at Swansea you would be keen to work with, who will tell you how to apply for Swansea support.
Please check eligibility - you must for example have a link with the UK (usually a degree from a UK university) http://www.leverhulme.ac.uk/funding/ECF/eligibility.cfm_. Swansea has a deadline of * -17th February 2011- * for internal application.