NIHR changes research career development opportunities

The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) wrote to us to tell us about upcoming changes to their research career development opportunities. Here is what they told us.

What’s changing?

Since 2018, the NIHR Academy has been working to break down barriers to career progression in research. But our portfolio of opportunities has grown over the years and become complex.

To ensure our career development opportunities are accessible and easy to understand, we are simplifying our fellowship offering to a single award at predoctoral, doctoral and postdoctoral levels.

By simplifying our awards, but keeping our background-specific funding committees, we will improve the experience for applicants but maintain the level of funding and background-specific support that is currently available.

All our other research career development opportunities will continue as they currently are.

Timelines

The first simplified award to launch will be the Predoctoral Award in January 2025. Doctoral and Postdoctoral awards will run twice a year.