Type of funding: Offers postdoctoral grants including starter grants for clinical lecturers, advanced fellowships, international fellowships and travel fellowships. Also offers a policy internship schemes for PhD students:
Website: Grants and Programmes | The Academy of Medical Sciences
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs.
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers a range of project and personal awards, including PhD scholarships, clinical research fellowships, senior clinical research fellowships, bridging schemes and funding for public engagement.
Website: Grant schemes – Alzheimer’s Research UK
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs.
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers a range of fellowships including; pre-doctoral, PhD studentships, post-doctoral and career development fellowships – includes ‘Clinician and Healthcare Professionals Training Fellowship’ for clinicians starting a research career wishing to pursue a PhD and ‘Pre-Doctoral Clinical Bursary’ for clinical staff to gain research experience. Alzheimer’s Society also offers a range of project grants. This includes pilot, springboard, and seed funding applications.
Website: All research funding schemes | Alzheimer’s Society
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs.
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers a range of funding schemes including project grants, pump primer grants, PhD studentships, junior and senior fellowships.
Website: Awards we fund | Asthma + Lung UK
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs.
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers funding for research projects (including small grants), pilot scheme grants, PhD studentships, research fellowships and travel awards.
Website: Research Grants – Ataxia UK
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs.
Country: UK
When it opens: Bi-annually
Type of funding: Offers a small grant scheme (£25K – £1K) for research projects
Website: Submit a Small Grants Scheme Application | BAPEN
Which AHP group it’s open to: Relevant for dietitians but open to all.
Country: UK
When it opens: Annual
Type of funding: Annual research awards open to members – funds one larger research project or a number of smaller ones each year
Website: Research – The British Association of Hand Therapists
Which AHP group it’s open to: Open to members (hand therapists)
Country: UK
When it opens: Annual
Type of funding: Research Project Grants to support research related activities.
Website: BGS Research Project Grant | British Geriatrics Society
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs. Must be members of the British Geriatrics Society.
Country: UK
When it opens: Bi-annually
Type of funding: Offers a wide range of project and programme grants and fellowships including ‘Research Training Fellowships for Nurses and Healthcare Professionals’ and ‘Career Development Research Fellowships for Nurses & Healthcare Professionals’
Website: What we fund – Cardiovascular Research Grants – BHF
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs.
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers a research scholars programme to provide paid research time and support to develop research ideas into grant applications
Website: BSG Research Scholars Programme Application Form
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs.
Country: UK
When it opens: Annual
Type of funding: Offers a range of project grants and fellowships including pre-doctoral research bursary, doctoral fellowships and post-doctoral fellowships.
Website: Cancer Research UK – Our funding schemes
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs.
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers funded a range of fellowships including pre-doctoral clinical research training fellowship, PhD studentships and post-doctoral fellowships, plus themed project calls.
Website: Funding opportunities – The Dunhill Medical Trust
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs.
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers a range of project grants and fellowships including early career small grants, doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships and themed strategic research calls
Website: Applying for funding | Diabetes UK
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs.
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers funding for masters-level & doctoral level studies, support to attend conferences, international scholarships and pump-primer research awards
Website: About Us – Elizabeth Casson Trust
Which AHP group it’s open to: Occupational therapists
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers project grants, PhD studentships, Medical Research Council / Fight for Sight Clinical Research Training Fellowship and small research grants.
Website: Eye research funding | Discover our current funding opportunities | Fight for Sight
Which AHP group it’s open to: Particularly relevant for orthoptists but open to all.
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers pre-doctoral training, fully funded PhDs and up to two years of postdoctoral support – based in East London
Website: HARP Programme
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs.
Country: England (East London Only)
When it opens: Annual
Type of funding: Offers ‘road to research awards’, new investigator award, national clinical impact award and Intensive Care Society & NIHR Clinical Research Awards.
Website: Intensive Care Society | Research Grants and Awards
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs.
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers a range of project and start up grants, PhD studentships and fellowships including the ‘Allied Health Professional Fellowship’
Website: Kidney Research UK grants | Kidney disease research grants
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs.
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers a range of funding schemes including early career fellowships, doctoral fellowships, international fellowships, project grants and research leadership awards.
Website: Schemes at a glance | The Leverhulme Trust
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs.
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers project awards, data discovery awards, PhD Fellowships, Early Career Fellowships and Catalyst Awards
Website: Research funding | Multiple Sclerosis Society UK
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs.
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers project grants, proof of principle grants, PhD studentships and a research grant with a focus on improving quality of life.
Website: Our funding opportunities – Muscular Dystrophy UK
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs.
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers a range of research and education awards for members including funding for M-level study
Website: Awards | MACP
Which AHP group it’s open to: Physiotherapists
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers project grants under the i) Research, Development and Analysis Fund, ii) Oliver Bird Fund, and iii) Racial Diversity UK Fund. Also supports a 13-week fellowship offered to PhD students who are undertaking or have recently completed their PhD study, the placement supports parliament providing evidence briefings.
Website: Research Funding | Apply for Funding | Nuffield Foundation
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs.
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers project grants, non-drug approaches grants and senior fellowships.
Website: Research grant funding | Parkinson’s UK
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs.
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers annual research grants, individual scholarship awards and funding for programmes of innovation.
Website: Grants and awards – PPEF
Which AHP group it’s open to: Physiotherapists
Country: UK
When it opens: Annual
Type of funding: Offers a range of research grants including small exploratory grants, new investigation grants and major research grants.
Website: Research Grants – SSR
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Translational Research Award and seed funding awards. Grants also available for equipment costs associated with research.
Website: Our funding opportunities | Sight Research UK
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs
Country: UK
When it opens: Annual
Type of funding: Offers a range of fellowships including postgraduate fellowships (PhD studentships), post-doctoral fellowships, Clinical & Senior Clinical Lectureships for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals
Website: Our funding schemes | Stroke Association
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Tessa Jowell AHP Research Fellowship
Website: Tessa Jowell AHP Research Fellowship | Tessa Jowell Brain Cancer Mission (TJBCM)
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs
Country: UK
When it opens: Annual
Type of funding: Project grants, PhD studentships, co-fund Advanced Fellowships (with NIHR).
Website: The Colt Foundation – Funding Environmental & Occupational Health Research
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers a wide range of fellowships including doctoral and post-doctoral, project and programme funding.
Website: Fellowship opportunities – The Health Foundation
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers a range of research awards including bursaries for Masters level study, small grants to support research costs, larger grants to support scoping projects.
Website: The Music Therapy Charity – What we fund
Which AHP group it’s open to: Music therapists
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers a wide range of fellowships including doctoral, post-postdoctoral and career development awards. Also offers a wide range of project grants.
Website: Grant funding | Wellcome
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers a range of fellowships including doctoral, post-doctoral and career development awards. Specific funding for registered healthcare professionals to undertake a PhD or to reacquire research skills. Also offers a wide range of project grants.
Website: MRC-funded fellowships – UKRI
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers a wide range of fellowships including doctoral, post-doctoral and career development awards. Also offers a wide range of project grants.
Website: Apply for funding – UKRI
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
Type of funding: Offers clinical PhD fellowships, covers salary cost and all research and training costs.
Website: University of Glasgow – Multimorbidity PhD programme for Health Professionals
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs
Country: Scotland
When it opens: Annual
Type of funding: Offers Leicestershire Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Doctoral Training Programme – fully funded PhD and research costs. Funding for 25 research fellows over 5 years.
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs
Country: England
When it opens: Annual
Type of funding: Offers a range of fellowships including clinical research fellowships, foundation fellowships, career development fellowships and bridging fellowships. Also offers project grants.
Website: Fellowships | Versus Arthritis
Which AHP group it’s open to: All AHPs
Country: UK
When it opens: Varied
