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Research

29th April 2019 by BAPO

CAPHR / Research

CAPHR helps promote research at all levels and is currently advertising two schemes which may be useful for new professors or post-doctoral researchers.

Academy of Medical Science Professorship Scheme.
The Academy of Medical Sciences is delighted to announce the inaugural call for applications to its Professorship Scheme. Working in partnership with UK Higher Education Institutions, we will be providing an attractive package of support to biomedical and healthcare researchers taking up their first full Professorship. Deadline 17 May 2019.

https://acmedsci.ac.uk/grants-and-schemes/grant-schemes/academy-of-medical-sciences-professorship-scheme

NIHR Advanced Fellowship
The Advanced Fellowship is for those at a post-doctoral level and aimed at several specific points of a researcher’s career development. The fellowship is between 2 and 5 years and can be completed on full-time or part-time basis. Between 50% and 100% whole time equivalent (WTE).
Advanced Fellowships will be available with a ‘clinical academic’ option whereby clinical applicants will have the option to request up to 40% of their time be dedicated to clinical service/development which would be covered by the Fellowship. Deadline 4 June 2019.

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/our-research-community/NIHR-academy/nihr-training-programmes/fellowship-programme/nihr-advanced-fellowship.htm

Filed Under: News, Research

13th February 2019 by BAPO

A Universe of Opportunities for AHPs

A brand new online careers resource has just been launched by Health Education England. It aims to raise awareness of the many opportunities for progression that are available to allied health professionals, including Prosthetists and Orthotists

A Universe of Opportunities for Your AHP Career is available on the e-Learning for Healthcare website and focuses on the range of development opportunities open to AHPs, covering eight potential areas for career progression. Clinical, management/leadership, research, education, digital transformation, entrepreneurship, public health and fellowships. For each of the eight areas, the resource includes an overview of the opportunities with useful resources and links, alongside a series of talking heads from across the AHP professions.

Many AHPs including Prosthetists/Orthotists taking all sorts of different careers paths appear in video and share what they have achieved and the barriers they have overcome

Filed Under: Executive, News, Research

6th February 2019 by BAPO

CAHPR Public Health Research Awards

CAHPR Public Health Research Awards 2019 – now open

2019 will be the fifth year CAHPR has run the awards. We are delighted to welcome involvement this year from AHPs4PH. In 2019, systematic reviews will be eligible for entry for the first time.

Three prizes will be awarded. Winners each receive the opportunity to showcase their poster at the Public Health England conference in September 2019 and £500 towards associated expenses.
The deadline for awards is 29 April 2019.

For further information and to apply, visit the Public Health Research Awards page for details. Information and guidance on how to enter is on the CAHPR website at: https://cahpr.csp.org.uk/content/cahpr-public-health-research-awards. The deadline for entries is 29 April 2019.

 

Filed Under: News, Research

29th January 2019 by BAPO

UK AHP & Nurse Internship Programme

For the first year the Versus Arthritis programme is now accepting applications from AHPs – Including P&O

See the press release here:

Applications open! Since 2015 the AHP and Nurse Internship Programme (funded by Versus Arthritis) has gone from strength to strength acquiring renewed funding from Versus Arthritis this year until 2021.  The  programme has expanded to include all Allied Health Professionals (HCPC registerable) and nurses with the addition of two further HEIs (Glasgow Caledonian and Keele Universities) to the Consortium that now  involves seven leading UK musculoskeletal research departments. The internship programme is well established and recognised for offering high calibre final year students and recent graduates the valuable opportunity to be one of eight national interns who are offered an eight week research placement at one of the HEIs that includes UK-wide study days, networking and on-going mentoring. The national programme is led by Professor Cathy Bowen with Mary Fry as Programme Manager both from the University of Southampton. Please cascade this information (link below) to student groups who may be interested and local and national colleagues within your profession

For further details please contact Mary Fry on M.L.Fry@soton.ac.uk. or see  https://www.versusarthritis.org/research/information-for-applicants/types-of-grant/

Deadline for applications is Monday 4th March

 

Filed Under: News, Research

24th January 2019 by BAPO

NIHR Funding

New rounds of the NIHR funding for a pre-doctoral clinical academic fellowship, it is open to clinicians who offer treatment 50% of the time within the NHS.

NHIR Funding Link

 

Filed Under: News, Research

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