Peer Coaching (PeCo) 2026 Application Form

The deadline for applications is Tuesday 21 April 2026, 11.59pm.
PeCo 2026 application form

About you

Please tick to confirm you have completed a PhD
Do you consider yourself to be an Early Career Researcher?
What does your research focus on?

2. Your contribution to PeCo

Consider: what you hope to gain from the programme; what difference this programme will make to your career; how this programme could help you take the next step in your research career.
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Please note, if selected we will use in the information you include in this box in a short participant biographies document to be shared with the other participants at the start of the programme.
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The information in your application form will be shared with the MHR Incubator team, and selected senior researchers who will be reviewing applications for the programme.

If your application is successful, the following information will be shared with the other participants in the 2025 PeCo cohort:

  • Your name and title
  • Your email address
  • Your organisation and discipline background
  • Your responses to Question 2c (your research questions and approaches)

Outside of the MHR Incubator team and application reviewers, no other information about your application will be shared. This includes your CV and your responses to the remaining application questions.

Personal data that you share with the Mental Health Research Incubator is collected, stored, accessed, and used in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Mental Health Research Incubator privacy policy, and the University of Oxford data protection policy. If you have any questions or concerns about your personal data, please email us at mhresearch@psych.ox.ac.uk

It is a requirement of the funding being allocated to this programme that selected participants take part in every session.

Essential criteria

  • Hold a PhD in applied mental health or addiction research
  • Currently employed in a research role in a UK institution
  • Willing to share your own career challenges and support colleague peer group with theirs
  • Interested to meet peers, form new collaborations and support each other
  • Able to commit to attending every session of the programme

Desirable criteria

  • Keen to demonstrate you are building skills that are relevant for leadership 
  • Currently take on, or are soon to take on, supervisory roles with staff/students  
  • Leading a programme of your own research and/or projects with multiple collaborators for the first time since your PhD  
  • Leading a team of researchers for the first time  
  • Supervising doctoral or postdoctoral level projects   
  • Teaching on clinical training courses in your discipline  
  • Collaborate on large cross-institution initiatives