Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers
A partnership funding scheme for clinical lecturers, designed to enable talented early-career researchers to lay the foundations for a productive research career, alongside maintaining their clinical skills and training.
Introduction
Call now open (Round 33)
Deadline for applications Wednesday 5 March 2025 : 16:00 GMT
We are working with The Academy of Medical Sciences to support Clinical Lecturers who are looking to develop and strengthen their research careers. These grants provide up to £30,000 over 1-2 years to cover the cost of research consumables. The grants allow research-active Clinical Lecturers to gather data to strengthen their bids for longer-term fellowships and funding.
Eligibility
Applications from clinicians in human, dental and veterinary medicine are welcome.
To be eligible to apply you must:
- Be a research-active Clinical Lecturer (or equivalent eligible post for Veterinary Clinicians, who are encouraged to contact us to discuss their eligibility)
- Have a PhD or MD
- Hold a medical, dental or veterinary undergraduate degree
- Be within higher specialty training (GPs may apply post-CCT).
Additional support
In addition to providing funding, participants will benefit from additional support through the Academy, which includes:
- Access to the Academy's acclaimed mentoring scheme (1-2-1 mentorship with an Academy Fellow).
- Access to the Academy’s career development events, training, and to the online portals and engagement programmes for awardees (PILLAR).
- £2,500 to develop a stronger application, funding public and patient contributors' time and expenses.
- Scientific meetings for early-career researchers.
- Opportunities to participate in the Academy’s wider national and international policy work.
Public and patient involvement
At Prostate Cancer UK, we encourage applicants to actively involve patients and the public to help shape and deliver their research project from conception to the dissemination of results. The involvement of people affected by prostate cancer can lead to better quality applications and improved outcomes of research, thus resulting in applications that are more likely to receive funding. If you would like support to involve people affected by prostate cancer in your research, visit our Patient Representative Network webpage through the link below, complete the request form and we can put you in contact with members of our Network.
Interested?
Full details of this scheme are on the AMS website, including answers to frequently asked questions, application guidance and a sample application form.
Timeline
There are two funding rounds each year with closing dates in March and September. See table below for round timings.
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ROUND A |
ROUND B |
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Launch |
January |
July |
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Deadline |
March |
September |
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Decision |
June |
December |
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Notification |
Late August |
Late February |
The AMS Starter Grant provided valuable consumables that supported me in generating preliminary data that led to the acquisition of a more comprehensive award to support my career development.
Contact info
If you have any questions about eligibility or would like to discuss an application, please email the AMS at [email protected].
