These awards cover a 24 months fellowship period. Applicants must have a strong academic record and want to develop in their careers in primary care research. The fellowship offers scope for career progression by providing the opportunity to: design an independent research project, conduct the research, analyse data, publish the results and prepare for grant applications to secure future funding. Allied health professional staff are encouraged to apply.
Training opportunities will be provided to successful candidates including:
At QMUL we have support in place to help early-career researchers in preparing their Fellowship applications. This includes your supervisor and co-applicants, and academic reviewers can assess you first draft of the application and provide feedback. Some previously successfully fellowship staff are willing to review your application. QMUL can support applicants in thinking about how to embed patient and public involvement (PPI) in their application.
Get in touch with Juliet Henderson to inform QM of your intention to apply
To view a video of 'How to win a fellowship' click here.
The fellowship is for early career post-doctoral positions and these awards are often awarded to people who have received their PhD in the last 3 years. Applications may however be researchers who have transitioned into applied health research from a different disciplinary background or are returning from a career break. Applicants can apply if they have not yet completed their viva (as long as they have completed it and made any amendments) before their start date in October.
Applicants do not have to be employed by an SPCR research organisation to apply.
It is possible to work at 60% (part time) during this fellowship, particularly if the candidate wishes to continue with their clinical/professional work.
All applicants must ensure their proposed research project is compatible with NIHR remit.
The rate for fellowships commencing in 2024 is approximately 40k per annum for 2 years, which is a max of 160k (including full time pay, Employers National Insurance, Pension contributions and an overhead for the University). The Fellowship covers salaries and some research costs but not all research costs (these need to be partly covered by other awards or funders).
SPCR Post Doctoral Fellowship - Wolfson Institute of Population Health
QMUL welcomes Expression of Interest in the following research areas:
We welcome Expression of Interest within the following research areas:
Dementia prevention, diagnosis and health inequalities Contact: Dr Charles Marshall
Ethnic inequalities in cardiometabolic disease, pharmacoepidemiology, health data science using large scale real-world observational and genetic data. Contact: Professor Rohini Mathur
Please talk to a supervisor by contacting one of the contacts listed at QM about your proposed project. If they agree to support you and have capacity they can help you work up your application.
You can download the 2024 application and guidance notes here
Fellowships will start on 1 October 2024
15th January - 14th March 2024 speak to academic staff and develop application
15th January onwards applicants develop worktribe costing with support from Juliet Henderson, agreed and signed off by JRMO and head of department at Queen Mary University before external submission
23rd January 2pm workshop Q and A session for any interested applicants
27 February internal applications to Juliet.henderson@qmul.ac.uk for internal panel to review
6th March feedback from panel provided by email to applicants
14th March applicants submit final application externally
The competitions will launch on 15 January 2024 and close on 14 March 2024 1pm (the deadline for completed applications to be externally submitted to SPCR). Email to Keele University applications.spcr@keele.ac.uk include Surname_PDF-October -2024 as the subject line on the email
Any questions on the external application procedure, please contact the SPCR team via applications.spcr@keele.ac.uk