Fellowship Funding

Pre Doctoral Funding

CSO NHS Researcher Development Fellowship
The NHS Researcher Development Fellowship is an introductory fellowship aimed at NHS employees currently working as a Nurse, Midwife, allied health professional, pharmacist, healthcare scientist or other in a clinical role to enable them to explore research as part of their existing NHS role.

Doctoral Funding

CSO Clinical Academic Fellowships
These Fellowships  (tenable in either health services or experimental/translational medicine research) are available for clinical professionals early in their career to do a PhD.

CSO Innovation Academic Fellowships
The CSO Innovation Academic Fellowship is targeted at early stage innovators working within NHS Scotland. It provides the opportunity for clinicians early in their career to undertake a higher degree (MD or PhD). 

Post Doctoral Funding

NES/CSO Postdoctoral Clinical Lectureships
These lectureships posts are for medical doctors in speciality training who have completed a PhD but wish to spend 50% of their time on research and 50% of time on clinical training. As training posts there are available until CCT is reached.

Early Postdoctoral Fellowship 
These fellowships provide 3 years of support to health researchers following completion of a PhD.

.NRS Career Researcher Fellowships
These Fellowships are to support NHS-funded clinical staff in developing a research career within their NHS post. This includes – qualified doctors, nurses, AHPs, pharmacists, biomedical/clinical scientists, public health specialists.

The award provides funding for protected time to contribute to, conduct and lead clinical research. This will strengthen the research culture in the NHS and increase capacity in priority areas.

The aim of the Innovation Fellowship Scheme is to strengthen the innovation culture to solve real problems in the NHS and social care, improving the quality, efficiency and sustainability of health and care delivery and supporting NHS Scotland’s Re-mobilise, Recover, Re-design Framework.

CSO NHS Innovation Fellowship Scheme
The CSO NHS Innovation Fellowship Scheme aims to strengthen the innovation culture to solve real problems in the NHS and social care.

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