August
27 August
Require further support with your Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA)?
Opportunity: Webinar - NIHR interactive seminars designed to support individuals with prior knowledge of EqIAs
Who's it for?: People who need further support completing an EqIA
Organiser: NIHR ARC East Midlands
Location: Online - Register here - Maximum 7 places available
Date/Time: Tuesday 27 August, 1-3pm
Cost: Free.
30 August
Individual Development Awards from ARC KSS
Opportunity: funding: springboard awards and investment in future leaders awards
Who's it for? researchers based in Kent, Surrey and Sussex region. ARC KSS's research themes include children's mental health, social care and digital innovation
Organiser: NIHR ARC KSS
Application deadline: 30 August
September
The NIHR Doctoral Local Authority Fellowship and Doctoral Clinical and Practitioner Academic Fellowship opens annually in September every year.
Doctoral Local Authority Fellowship (DLAF): three year full time award of which approximately 80% of time is spent working academically and 20% spent working in practice undertaking professional development.
Eligibility: individuals based within local authorities and supporting services who want to undertake a PhD and professional development within their current setting, but on sabbatical from their existing role.
Doctoral Clinical and Practitioner Academic Fellowship (DCAF): three year full-time award funding registered health and care professionals (excluding doctors and dentists) to undertake a PhD by research and, concurrently, to undertake further professional development and practice.
Eligibility: health and social care professionals (excluding doctors or dentists) who are registered with an ICA eligible regulatory body
4 September
UKRI - MRC Predoctoral Clinical Research Training Fellowship
Opportunity: Fellowship - UKRI have announced a Fellowship funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) to undertake a PhD. The project can focus on any are of the MRC’s remit to improve human health.
Who's it for: Registered healthcare professionals.
Eligibility: To be eligible you need to:
- be a registered healthcare professional
- be at an appropriate point in your training to undertake a PhD
- show plans to pursue a research career
Deadline: 4 September, 4pm
4 September
The Churchill Fellowships 2024
Opportunity: Fellowship - funding to spend up to two months discovering new ideas and best practice among leading practitioners anywhere in the world. This can be in person or online, and the idea is that you gain insights that will help inform UK practice in your chosen area. Applications will open on 4 September.
Who's it for: UK citizens aged 18 or over, no particular qualifications.
Organiser: The Churchill Fellowship
Eligibility: Proposed topic areas must be beneficial to UK society, and must meet eligibility criteria.
Themes for 2025 are:
- Arts and communities.
- Caring for our natural environment.
- Children and young people with experience of care.
- Climate change.
- Supporting engagement in education.
- Promoting lifelong health.
- Resilient economies and communities.
- Tech for all.
Deadline: 12 November.
10 September
Webinar on the mental health digital innovation funding call from Wellcome Trust
Opportunity: Webinar on a funding opportunity
Organiser: Wellcome Trust
Register here: https://wellcome-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FKgVigMWTd-kdRETmI9diw#/registration
17 September
UKRI - MRC Neurosciences and Mental Health Programme Funding
Opportunity: Research Funding- UKRI have announced that the Medical Research Council (MRC) will be funding a programme of research focused on neurosciences and mental health.
Who's it for: Organisations eligible to apply for Medical Research Council (MRC) funding.
Eligibility: To be eligible you need to:
- be employed at a research organisation eligible to apply for Medical Research Council (MRC) funding
- have a record of securing funding and delivering research
Deadline: 17 September, 4pm
16 September
Overcoming challenges at the intersection of industry and academia
Opportunity: Webinar
Organiser: Wellcome Trust
Date and time: 16 September, 12pm-2.30pm
18 September
NIHR ARCs national webinars: health inequalities
Opportunity: webinar
Who's it for? anyone interested in latest research from across the NIHR ARCs on the topic of health inequalities
Organiser: NIHR ARCs
Date and time: Wednesday 18 September, 1pm. Register here.
26 September
Application Development Award for Health and Care Professionals
Opportunity: Application Development funding - funding of up to £150k for up to 10 ADA's to help support work needed to submit a competitive research application for larger funding
Who's it for: Health and Care professionals: Nurses, Midwives, Pharmacists, Healthcare scientists and Allied Health Professionals.
Organiser: NIHR
Eligibility: Applicants must hold or be about to be awarded a PhD or have equivalent demonstrable research knowledge and experience.
Deadline: 26 September, 1pm.
27 September
Engagement grants for research into the scientific study of addiction and its treatment
Opportunity: funding for initiatives that increase the scientific understanding of addiction and its treatment.
Who's it for: varied projects have been successful in the past. Applicants are encouraged to be creative.
Organiser: Society for the Study of Addiction
Eligibility: lead applicant must be an SSA member or associate.
Deadline: 27 September.
October
The application window for the NIHR Doctoral fellowships and NIHR Advanced fellowships opens twice a year in October (and April)
Doctoral fellowship: Three year full-time award that supports individuals to undertake a PhD in applied health or social care research.
Eligibility: completed any relevant pre-registration training (for clinical applicants); completed first degree for non-clinical applicants.
Advanced fellowship: two-five year funding for those at postdoctoral level.
Eligibility: Recently completed or about to be awarded a PhD but haven't yet established yourself as an independent researcher or established as an independent researcher but not yet an international leader in the field.
1 October
Online 6-week course: introduction to implementation science
Opportunity: training course
Who's it for: researchers, service user researchers, and health and social care practitioners, who want to develop their understanding of implementation science
Cost: variable £450 - £1400 depending on your role and context
Organiser: NIHR ARC South London and Maudsley
Booking deadline: Monday 23 September 2024via the King's College London website.
2 October
Success in scaling: lessons from leaders in digital mental health
Opportunity: Webinar
Organiser: Wellcome Trust
Date and time: Wednesday 2 October, 5pm - 7.30pm
23 October
The British Academy Visiting Fellowships 2025
Opportunity: Fellowship - a postdoctoral fellowship of up to £40,000, enables academics from any country overseas to be based at a UK higher education or other research institution of their choice for up to six months.
Who's it for: Academics overseas looking to collaborate with colleagues in UK universities.
Organiser: The British Academy
Eligibility: To be eligible you need to:
- be at postdoctoral level or above (or have equivalent research experience)
- be on a permanent or fixed term contract
- make contact with your host institution ahead of applying
Deadline: 23 October, 5pm
29 October
Different avenues for funding digital mental health innovation
Opportunity: Webinar
Organiser: Wellcome Trust
Date and time: Tuesday 29 October, 9-11am
November
1 November
Opportunity: Fellowship - funding to spend a year in the US for internationally comparative healthcare research.
Who's it for? Mid-career researchers with a clinical or non-clinical healthcare policy background
Funder: jointly funded from NIHR and the Commonwealth fund
Deadline: 1 November
6 November
Research for Patient Benefit programme
Opportunity: Research funding for high quality quantitative and qualitative research with a clear trajectory to patient benefit.
Who's it for: ECRs
Funder: NIHR
Deadline: 6 November
12 November
The Churchill Fellowships 2024
Opportunity: Fellowship - funding to spend up to two months discovering new ideas and best practice among leading practitioners anywhere in the world. This can be in person or online, and the idea is that you gain insights that will help inform UK practice in your chosen area. Applications will open on 4 September.
Who's it for: UK citizens aged 18 or over, no particular qualifications.
Organiser: The Churchill Fellowship
Eligibility: Proposed topic areas must be beneficial to UK society, and must meet eligibility criteria.
Themes for 2025 are:
- Arts and communities.
- Caring for our natural environment.
- Children and young people with experience of care.
- Climate change.
- Supporting engagement in education.
- Promoting lifelong health.
- Resilient economies and communities.
- Tech for all.
Deadline: 12 November.
15 December
Wellcome mental health award: Scaling digital mental health interventions
Opportunity: funding
Organiser: Wellcome Trust
Full application deadline: 5 December
Doctoral studentships focusing on dementia-related practice
Opportunity: Doctoral studentships - fifteen full-time PhD studentships focusing on dementia-related practice in England with support from the National Institute for Health and Care Research.
Who's it for: Aspiring PhD students aiming to conduct research relevant to dementia - see the listed projects for more details on available topics.
Organiser: NIHR
Eligibility: See individual project listings for more information on eligibility.
Deadline: Differs per project but studentships will start in October 2024.
Associate Principal Investigator (PI) Scheme
Opportunity: Training opportunity - the Associate Principal Investigator Scheme aims to develop health and care professionals to become the Principal Investigators (PIs) of the future.
Who's it for: Healthcare professionals just starting their research career, particularly those who would not usually have the opportunity to take part in clinical research in their day-to-day role.
Organiser: NIHR
Eligibility: The scheme is open to any health and care professional willing to make a significant contribution to the conduct and delivery of a study at a local level over a period of six months.