Fellowship Academy for Medicine and Health

To enhance our support for both internal and external applicants to prestigious personal awards, the College of Medicine and Health has established a dedicated College Fellowship Academy.

The Fellowship Academy aims to attract the next generation of talent seeking personal awards. The Academy will focus on postdoctoral talent development to secure external research fellowships and equivalent awards, such as MRC Career Development/Clinician Scientist Awards, NIHR Advanced Fellowships, UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships, equivalent Wellcome schemes, and ERC Starter Grants. This also includes the pump-priming programmes such as the Birmingham Springboard fellowship. 

The Fellowship Academy will:

  • Provide applicants with advice and guidance (e.g. grant clinics, signposting, bid building, interview preparation and post-award mentoring)
  • Liaise with programme managers of the relevant funding bodies (e.g. planning and hosting multi-funder events) 
  • Provide overarching career guidance and care of a growing cadre of externally funded fellows across the College

UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship

The UKRI Future Leaders Fellowships (FLF) scheme Round 10 will open in February 2025. The scheme supports early-career researchers and innovators in academia, business, and beyond to advance ambitious research and career development. Funding is awarded for an initial period of four years both to tackle ambitious and challenging research and innovation and to develop the fellow’s career. Funding can be extended for up to a further three years.

Since each institution has a capped number of applications, we are running an internal selection process to identify the proposals which should go forward for submission to UKRI.  

We welcome expressions of interest (EOI) from both internal and external candidates. Internal candidates must submit their EOI  31st January. Before starting an EOI, external candidates should contact the Fellowship Academy for further information on the application process. External candidates must have registered their interest to apply with the Fellowship Academy by 3rd January 2025.

For further information about requirements for the EOI and the onwards process, please Contact us.

Previous Awardees


Recent Fellowship Successes

 

Upcoming Events

We will regularly update upcoming events and how we can support you. Please check regularly to see what might be most appropriate for you to attend.

CMH Fellowship Academy - Upcoming Events

Please check back regularly for upcoming events.

 

 

Contact and Further Information

For any queries regarding the new Fellowship Academy, please e-mail cmhfellowshipacademy@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

To give the Fellowship Academy feedback or to suggest workshops, support or resources that you feel would be beneficial please fill out our anonymous form. 

CMH Fellowship Academy Suggestions Form

For further information on researcher training and development, please visit our Early Career Researcher (ECR) Hub.

Interested in joining the College of Medicine and Health? Please register your interest using our online form and see how the Fellowship Academy can help you with a fellowship application to join the college.

Register your interest