APRIL
18 April
Virtual taster lecture: Understanding childhood trauma
Opportunity: Webinar
Organiser: UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences and the Anna Freud Centre
Dates: Tuesday 18 April
Cost: Free
19 April
Mental Health Research for All Programme
Opportunity: Career development fellowships and funding awards
Organiser: NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North Thames
Eligibility: Mental health staff and researchers working in the North Thames region
Deadline: Apply by Wednesday 19 April
Community engagement in health research: menopause and more
Opportunity: Webinar
Organiser: Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol
Dates: Wednesday 19 April
Cost: Free
20 April
UKRI Policy Fellowships 2023
Opportunity: Collaborative research funding
Organiser: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Eligibility: Academics who hold a PhD or equivalent research experience, as well as relevant subject matter or methodological expertise. Experience of working in a policy and knowledge exchange context is beneficial. Policy fellowship funding opportunities with a UK or devolved government host are aimed at early to mid-career academics. Fellowships with a What Works Network centre host are open to all career stages.
Deadline: Apply by 4pm on Thursday 20 April
Maintaining Momentum from doctoral to postdoctoral research: a workshop for nurses, midwives, allied health professionals and their managers
Opportunity: In-person workshop
Organiser: NIHR Research Design Service South Central
Location: Southampton, Oxford, Portsmouth
Dates: Thursday 20 April
Cost: Free
Engaging with policy makers: can your research influence policy?
Opportunity: Webinar
Organiser: NIHR and Professor Annette Boaz, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Dates: Thursday 20 April
Cost: Free
21 April
Benefits of the Outdoors on Well-Being & Mental Health
Opportunity: Webinar
Organiser: The Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health
Dates: Friday 21 April
Cost: £30 ACAMH members, £45 non-members, £5 ACAMH undergraduate and masters members
NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) highlight notice: nurses and midwives
Opportunity: Research funding
Organiser: NIHR
Eligibility: All applications to this highlight notice must have a nurse or a midwife in an early stage of their research career. They can apply as either the lead or joint-lead applicant together with a senior colleague fulfilling the other role. Both the lead and joint-lead applicants must have a background in nursing or midwifery.
25 April
NIHR School for Primary Care Research Post-Doctoral Fellowships
Opportunity: Post-doctoral Fellowship
Organiser: NIHR School for Primary Care Research
Eligibility: Applicants should have a strong academic record and wish to develop a career in primary care research. Applications are particularly sought from allied health professionals.
Deadline: Apply by 1pm Tuesday 25 April
ECR workshop: Data Management in Mental Health Research
Opportunity: In-person workshop for early career researchers
Organiser: Datamind and MQ Mental Health Research
Location: London
Dates: Tuesday 25 April
Cost: £15
NIHR Fellowships: Developing a competitive application
Opportunity: Webinar for researchers and health professionals who want to develop and submit an NIHR fellowship application
Organiser: NIHR Research Design Service Yorkshire and Humber
Dates: Tuesday 25 April
Cost: Free
Health Inequalities: from evidence to action virtual conference
Opportunity: Online conference
Organiser: The King's Fund
Dates: Tuesday 25 April – Wednesday 26 April
Cost: From £150
26 April
Psychosis; Schizophrenia, Hearing Voices, and the Language of ‘Madness’
Opportunity: Webinar
Organiser: The Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health
Dates: Wednesday 26 April
Cost: £30 ACAMH members, £45 non-members, £5 ACAMH undergraduate and masters members
MQ and DATAMIND's Data Science Meeting April 2023
Opportunity: In-person conference
Organiser: MQ Mental Health Research and DATAMIND
Location: London EC2N 2DB
Dates: Wednesday 26 April
Cost: £15
28 April
Call for abstracts: Refocus on Recovery 2023 conference
Opportunity: Research presentations and posters
Organiser: The Recovery Research Team at The Institute of Mental Health at the University of Nottingham
Deadline: 12pm on Friday 28 April
NIHR Academy Mentoring Programme 2023
Opportunity: Career development
Organiser: NIHR Academy
Eligibility: Postdoctoral NIHR Academy members
Deadline: Prospective mentors and mentees to apply by 3pm on Friday 28 April
RSTMH 2023 Early Career Grant
Opportunity: Research grant for early career researchers
Organiser: The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Eligibility: Early career researchers and global health professionals based anywhere in the world, who have not had research funding of £5,000 or more in their own name before. Projects can be on any topic related to tropical medicine and global health, from across the research spectrum of lab, translation, implementation and policy, and should take up to one year.
Deadline: Apply by 9am on Friday 28 April
Capturing impact from public involvement: a South West Peninsula example
Opportunity: Webinar
Organiser: NIHR
Date: 12pm Friday 28 April
Cost: Free
30 April
Wellcome Data Science Ideathon
Opportunity: Data science competition with cash and research grant prizes
Organiser: The Wellcome Trust
Eligibility: Teams of 3-5 postgraduate students or researchers based at a UK Higher Education Institution or research institute with experience in data science and climate and health, mental health, or infectious disease.
Deadline: Apply by Sunday 30 April
MAY
1 May
ARC East Midlands PhD studentships in applied health and social care
Opportunity: PhD studentship
Organiser: Applied Research Collaboration East Midlands
Eligibility: PhD offer holders at a university in the East Midlands
Deadline: Apply by Monday 1 May
3 May
Collaboration across health care communities: New relationships and alliances
Opportunity: In-person conference
Organiser: NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Northwest London (NIHR ARC NWL)
Location: St Paul's Centre, Hammersmith
Dates: Wednesday 3 May
Cost: Free
NIHR Three Research Schools Seminar Series: Collaborating to develop holistic health support for people living with severe mental illness
Opportunity: Webinar
Organiser: NIHR School for Primary Care Research
Dates: Wednesday 3 May
Cost: Free
9 May
Whole School Approach to Mental Health – Pedagogy in practice
Opportunity: Webinar
Organiser: The Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health
Dates: Tuesday 9 May
Cost: Free
UKRI Mental health platform hubs
Opportunity: Research funding to establish a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary mental health hub at a UK research organisation
Organiser: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)
Eligibility: Researchers employed by an eligible research organisation. See the applicant guidance for details.
Deadline: Submit expressions of interest by 4pm Tuesday 9 May
11 May
JCPP Advances 2023 Lectures ‘What the research tells us; Anxiety, Neurodiversity, Suicide, and Genetics’
Opportunity: Webinar
Organiser: The Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health
Dates: Thursday 11 May
Cost: Free
16 May
Primary Care Mental Health Research Conference 2023: Digital health and remote care
Opportunity: In-person conference
Organiser: The Centre for Academic Primary Care at the University of Bristol
Location: Bristol
Dates: Tuesday 16 May
Cost: £50
17 May
Child & Youth Mental Health Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Opportunity: Webinar
Organiser: Universities of Manchester, Keele, Exeter and the McPin Foundation
Dates: Wednesday 17 May
Cost: Free
NIHR ARCs national webinar series: Mental health in our modern world
Opportunity: Webinar
Organiser: NIHR Applied Research Collaborations: South London, Northwest London, and Oxford and Thames Valley
Dates: Wednesday 17 May
Cost: Free
20 May
Council for Allied Health Professions Research East Anglia Conference: The Research Journey
Opportunity: In-person conference
Organiser: CAHPR East Anglia
Location: Keystone Innovation Centre, Norfolk
Dates: Saturday 20 May
Cost: £20, £10 for student AHPs
23 May
Mental Health Intervention for Children with Epilepsy
Opportunity: Webinar
Organiser: The Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health
Dates: Tuesday 23 May
Cost: Free
JUNE
7 June
NIHR Doctoral Clinical and Practitioner Academic Fellowship Round 3
Opportunity: Career development and PhD fellowship
Organiser: NIHR
Eligibility: Health and care professionals
Deadline: Apply by 1pm on Wednesday 7 June
Wellcome Trust Mental Health Award: Finding the right treatment, for the right people, at the right time for anxiety and depression
Opportunity: Research funding
Organiser: Wellcome Trust
Eligibility: Researchers worldwide
Deadline: Apply by Wednesday 7 June
The Kings Fund Circles Speaker Series: Natasha Devon on on mental health as a gendered issue
Opportunity: Webinar
Organiser: The Kings Fund
Dates: Wednesday 7 June
Cost: £35
9 June
NIHR School for Primary Care Research PhD studentships in primary care
Opportunity: PhD studentship
Organiser: Queen Mary, University of London
Eligibility: Postgraduates with a first or upper-second class degree in a subject relevant to primary care
Deadline: Apply by Friday 9 June
22 June
7th UK Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Research Conference: 'PROMs Across the Lifespan'
Opportunity: In-person conference
Organiser: University of Sheffield and NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Yorkshire and Humber
Location: University of Sheffield
Dates: Thursday 22 June
Cost: £50
30 June
HEE/NIHR Clinical Scholar Programme
Opportunity: Pre- and Post-Doctoral Bridging Programmes
Organiser: University of Nottingham
Eligibility: Clinicians in the East Midlands area who have completed a master degree or equivalent postgraduate qualification (Pre-Doctoral Programme) and clinicians in the East Midlands area who have been awarded a PhD (Post-Doctoral Programme)
Deadline: Apply by 5pm Friday 30 June
JULY
4 July
UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships Round 8
Opportunity: Early career research funding, applications now open
Organiser: UK Research and Innovation
Eligibility: Early career researchers
Deadline: Apply by 4pm on Tuesday 4 July
6 July
Third UK and Ireland Mental Diversity Law Conference
Opportunity: Hybrid in-person and online conference
Organiser: The Institute of Mental Health at the University of Nottingham
Location: Nottingham
Dates: Thursday 6 and Friday 7 July, pre-conference on Wednesday 5 July
Cost: From £50
NIHR Advanced Fellowship Round 10
Opportunity: Postdoctoral research funding, applications now open
Organiser: NIHR Fellowship programme
Eligibility: Postdoctoral researchers or clinicians in the UK who do not already hold a position as a Chair
Deadline: Apply by 1pm on Thursday 6 July
12 July
NIHR Research for Patient Benefit - Competition 51
Opportunity: Research funding, applications now open
Organiser: NIHR Research for Patient Benefit Programme
Eligibility: Researchers in England
Deadline: Apply by 1pm on Wednesday 12 July
13 July
6th UK and Ireland Implementation Science Research Conference 2023
Opportunity: Hybrid in-person and online conference
Organiser: NIHR ARC South London and the University of Limerick
Location: Limerick
Dates: Thursday 13 and Friday 14 July
Cost: From €62.50
17 July
Summer School in Youth Mental Health Research
Opportunity: Online summer school
Organiser: The Wolfson Centre for Young People's Mental Health at Cardiff University
Dates: Monday 17 to Wednesday 19 July
Cost: Free
26 July
NIHR Health and Social Care Delivery Research Programme
Opportunity: Research funding, applications now open
Organiser: NIHR Health and Social Care Delivery Research Programme (HSDR)
Eligibility: Researchers in England
Deadline: Apply by 1pm on 15 August
AUGUST
15 August
NIHR Public Health Research Programme commissioned workstream: Effectiveness of interventions aimed at preventing domestic abuse
Opportunity: Research funding, applications now open
Organiser: NIHR Public Health Research Programme (PHR)
Eligibility: Researchers in England
Deadline: Apply by 1pm on 15 August
NIHR Public Health Research Programme commissioned workstream: Health impacts of having ‘No Recourse to Public Funds’
Opportunity: Research funding, applications now open
Organiser: NIHR Public Health Research Programme (PHR)
Eligibility: Researchers in England
Deadline: Apply by 1pm on 15 August
NIHR Public Health Research Programme commissioned workstream: Interventions to improve health outcomes for sex workers
Opportunity: Research funding, applications now open
Organiser: NIHR Public Health Research Programme (PHR)
Eligibility: Researchers in England
Deadline: Apply by 1pm on 15 August
SEPTEMBER
6 September
Refocus on Recovery 2023 international conference
Opportunity: In-person conference
Organiser: The Recovery Research Team at The Institute of Mental Health at the University of Nottingham
Location: Nottingham
Dates: Wednesday 6 and Thursday 7 September
Cost: £280