ADVANCED FELLOWSHIP ROUND 6 – FUNDING

1. Title: ADVANCED FELLOWSHIP ROUND 6 – FUNDING2. Awarding Authority: NHS National Institute for Health Research, GB Email: academy-awards@nihr.ac.uk. Web: 3. Contract type: Service contract4. Description: The Awarding Authority Advanced Fellowship funds post-doctoral individuals from a range of health and social care professions who haven’t yet been awarded a chair. Whether you are someone who has recently been or about to be awarded a PhD, or someone with several years of post-doctoral experience, you could be eligible to apply for an Advanced Fellowship.The Fellowship funds:full salary support, including protected time to concentrate on researchresearch costsa bespoke training and development programme to meet individual needsApplicants who are active clinicians or social workers can request for up to 40% of their time to be dedicated to clinical service/development/practice, which will be covered by the Fellowship.Full details of the remit of research funded by the NIHR and eligibility criteria can be found in the guidance notes.Charity partnershipsThe NIHR Academy is offering jointly funded NIHR Charity Partnership Fellowships for this Round with the following charities:Castang Foundation Moorfields Eye CharityMS SocietyThe guidance notes provide specific eligibility criteria for the partnerships. Contact details for each charity, and applicants are encouraged to contact the relevant charity partner to discuss their research area of interest before applying.Industry partnershipsThe NIHR are wanting to promote and increase the number of people with the necessary skills and experience to work at the interface between Higher Education Institutes, industry and the NHS. Therefore as part of this round we are encouraging applicants to think about how they can involve an industry partner in their application where relevant. Fundable applications which include industry co-funding between 25% and 50% of the total will receive prioritisation in the scenario where the number of fundable applications is more than the budget allows to be funded (like with applications in strategic theme areas). If you are applying with industry co-funding please indicate in the ‘Application Summary Information’ Section and under the sub-heading “Partnership Fellowship” please select “Industry-other”. 5. CPV Code(s): 73110000, 73210000, 731000006. NUTS code(s): UKI, UKI3, UKI327. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: London, Inner London – West, Westminster.8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: Not provided.9. Estimated value of requirement: Not provided.10. As no deadline date has been specified please contact the awarding authority for further information.11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information regarding the above contract notice please visit:12. Other information: TKR-2021316-EX-1575738# funding opportunity