Deadline: 20 January 2016
The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) is currently inviting applications from eligible applicants to apply for its Fellowships Programme Round 9. The fellowships support outstanding individuals to become the health research leaders of the future by buying out their salary costs, meeting their training and development costs and by contributing to the research costs needed to complete an identified research project.
These personal research training awards offer a range of opportunities to undertake fully funded health related research and also carry out a personal training and development programme.
Types of Fellowships Programme
- The Doctoral Research Fellowship (DRF): offers 3 years full-time funding (or 4 or 5 years part-time) to undertake a PhD.
- The Career Development Fellowship (CDF): offers 3 years full time funding (or 4 or 5 years parttime).
- The Senior Research Fellowship (SRF): offers 5 years funding to undertake a programme of research.
- The Transitional Research Fellowship (TRF): offers 18 months – 24 months funding (at 100%, 75% or 60%) to support researchers.
Eligibility Criteria
Applications are invited from individuals working in any sector or scientific discipline who propose to undertake people or patient-based clinical and applied health research at an institution based in England or Wales.
How to Apply
Applicants must fill the online application form available the website.
For more information, please visit Fellowship Programme.
