Fellowships and Internships

1) Bitesize webinar series on NIHR Personal Awards

Advice and guidance for anyone working in public health, social care, local authorities and the voluntary sector who is thinking of applying for an NIHR Personal Award. Find out about the awards, what the application process entails and what support is available to you before you submit your application. There will also be a Q&A session with experts and existing award holders.

45min webinars will be on applying for:

NIHR Personal Awards (overview)
NIHR Predoctoral Award
NIHR Doctoral Award
NIHR Postdoctoral Award

There will also be an additional webinar on how to write a narrative CV.

Full details can be found on the NIHR RSS Specialist Centre for Public Health website.

2) UK-wide partnership with the Addictions Healthcare Goals programme

We would like to share details of a new UK-wide partnership between the NIHR and Office for Life Sciences (OLS) Addiction Healthcare Goals programme to support individuals from across the UK develop the skills to deliver innovative drug and alcohol addiction research.

Through this exciting new partnership, individuals can apply to upcoming career development opportunities at pre-doctoral, doctoral and post-doctoral levels; including the following awards:

NIHR Pre-application Support Fund - Cohort 7 now open
NIHR Doctoral Award - Cohort 2 now open
NIHR Development and Skills Enhancement (DSE) Award (postdoctoral level award) - due to open in December 2025
NIHR Predoctoral Award - due to open in January 2026

We encourage applications from a broad range of groups, disciplines, professions, and sectors. Visit our website for further details about the recent announcement: New research partnership to tackle drug and alcohol addiction.

Join our webinar on 10 November with Dr Beth Harris, NIHR Assistant Director for Academy Programmes to learn more.

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