Post Doctoral Funding

Funds post-doctoral research of up to £100,000 for post-doctoral researchers who are yet to secure their first major project grant. Up to 3 awards per funding round. Two funding rounds per year.

Further details: Chartered Society of Physiotherapists Post-Doctoral Scheme.

This funding offers support of up to £100,000 for a project that clearly addresses an identified occupational therapy research priority area in the UK.

Further information: RCOT Research Priority Grant

The General Nursing Council for England and Wales funds research proposals of up to £40,000 related to their specific focus in a year. For 2024, this is health inequalities.

Further details: General Nursing Council for England and Wales

Offers one year of up to £80,000 of funding to support post-doctoral HCP researchers and fellows with the dedicated time needed to gather data for their independent research and build their CV in preparation for the next stage of their career. Funds can cover salary, research costs, an optional £3,000 for a research intern, an optional £3,000 for an associated overseas secondment and £1,000 for career development, such as training and conferences.

Further information: Alzeimer’s Society Career Development Grant

Offers one year of funding to allow early career HCP researchers to gather data and build their CV in preparation for the next stage in their career. Funding is available for up to 18 months part-time, which can include salary, £18,000 for research costs and £1,000 for career development costs, up to a maximum of £150,000 in total.

Further details: Post-CCT career development grant

Funding for up to three years is available for direct costs of up to £400,000 to support research including staff salary, consumables, and equipment.

Further details: Alzeimer’s Society Project Grants

This award is for experienced dementia researcher looking to make the step to research independence. Funding is available for up to five years full-time and can cover salary for the fellow, £25,000 per annum for research costs, £1,000 per annum towards career development and training , PhD studentship fees, and stipend to fund one student OR equivalent funds towards research support staff salary.

Further information: Dementia Research Leader Fellowship

This is a new, three-year post-doctoral research fellowship of up to £350,000 aimed at supporting an early-career researcher who has a ‘track record of delivering impactful research projects and aspires to establish themselves as an influential glaucoma specialist’.

Further details: Pitts Crick Career Development Fellowship

The post-doctoral bridging award is for those who have or are about to receive a PhD and want to develop research careers. The award is designed to support those intending to apply for the Advanced Clinical and Practitioner Academic Fellowship (ACAF) or an equivalent opportunity.

Further information: NIHR/HEE Post-Doctoral Bridging Award

Offers individuals holding doctoral or post-doctoral ICA awards the opportunity for free one-to-one clinical academic career mentorship by an appropriate mentor.

Further information: NIHR ICA Mentorship Scheme

This Fellowship scheme aims to build research capacity in HCP research, by supporting the career development of the UK’s most talented new ‘investigators’ towards becoming independent scientists. It is run in collaboration with a variety of collaborating organisations.

Further information: Dunhill Jointly funded post-doctoral fellowships

Offers funding for research institutions to support early career HCPs who have up to three years’ post-doctoral

research experience to develop research in one of their designated centres. Funding covers salary, consumables, travel and subsistence and project costs (not overheads).

Further details: Dunhill Multiple Post-Doctoral Fellowship Pilot Scheme

These Fellowships enable HCPs to spend up to 12 months in the United States, working with leading US experts to study health care delivery reforms and critical issues on the health policy agenda in both the US and their home countries.

Further details: Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice

Guts UK is a charity that funds research into the digestive system; the gut, liver and pancreas. A number of different funding opportunities are hosted by Guts UK:

The Guts UK Derek Butler fellowship

The Guts UK Derek Butler fellowship can be applied for by early career post-doctoral scientists working in the field of gastroenterology and relevant fields of bioscience research in upper gastrointestinal tract diseases and conditions. Funds up to £210,000 for up to 3 years, including salary and consumables.

Further details: The Guts UK Derek Butler fellowship

Guts UK and the BSPGHAN development grants

Guts UK and The British Society of Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (BSPGHAN) co-fund two development grants of up to £40,000 for research on paediatric gastrointestinal, hepatological and nutritional disorders. Clinician and scientist investigators, including Academic Clinical Lecturers, based at a UK university or hospital are eligible to apply.

Further details: Guts UK and the BSPGHAN development grants

A variety of post-doctoral research opportunities are offered to HCPs, including Career Development fellowships.

Further details: Versus Arthritis

These Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (PRF) offer up to £30,000 for research lasting up to three years to support new, research-active lecturers, or those at lecturer equivalent level, to gather data and strengthen their bids for longer-term substantive funding. Awards may include new and directly incurred research costs but may not be used to pay for salary.

Further information: Wellbeing of Women Postdoctoral Research Fellowships

Offers up to 5 years FT funding (longer if PT), with up to £400,000 per award, for early-career researchers from any discipline to develop their research profile to enable them to be in a position to lead their own independent research programme. Applicants must have recently completed a PhD or have at least four years equivalent research experience.     Priority areas are Discovery Research, Climate & Health, Infectious Disease and Mental Health.

Further information:  Wellcome Early-Career Awards

Funding of circa eight years available for mid-career researchers from any discipline who have the potential to be international research leaders.  Support available for Discovery Research, Climate & Health, Infectious Disease or Mental Health research.

Further information: Wellcome Career Development Awards

Significant research funding available for established researchers and teams from any discipline to pursue     Discovery Research, Climate & Health, Infectious Disease, or Mental Health research. Funding for up to 8 years and up to £8m per award is available.

Further information: Wellcome Discovery Awards