Windsor Fellowship - Prostate Cancer UK Internship Programme

Call open

Please ensure you submit your application to [email protected] by the deadline of 12 noon, 28 August 2026.

We're looking for early, mid-career and established researchers working in prostate cancer research laboratories in the UK to host 8-week summer placements in 2027 for Black/Mixed Black undergraduates or recent graduates. 

Placement stipends and consumables will be funded by Prostate Cancer UK in partnership with  Windsor Fellowship.

Background

Through our Black Health Equity work and strategy, we’re aware that a lack of representation in the research workforce is a barrier to involving and inspiring Black men in research. We know that it will take multiple actions to solve this issue, and some will be long term.

Black people make up 4% of the UK working age population, yet only 0.6% of science professors¹, due to economic, institutional, structural, and cultural barriers that perpetuate inequalities. We're focussed on finding ways to increase the number of Black researchers leading prostate cancer research, both now and in the future. 

Although Black students in science subjects are relatively well represented at undergraduate level, making up 8% of undergraduates, this representation drops significantly to just 3.8% at the research master’s and PhD level, and drops even further to 2.5% for junior research staff¹.

We believe positive action is needed to address this. And, in addition, we believe that this will help us achieve the aims set out in our Black Health Equity strategy and tackle the doubled risk of prostate cancer diagnosis for Black men.

To address this inequality and to foster the next generation of Black leaders in prostate cancer research, we’re partnering with the Windsor Fellowship to launch a new internship funding scheme for Black and mixed-Black heritage students in the UK as an intentional commitment to create more equitable opportunities.

The scheme will be open to 2^nd and 3^rd year undergraduates and recent graduates who want to pursue a PhD and career in prostate cancer research. The internship will fund successful candidates to undertake an 8-week summer placement in a prostate cancer research laboratory, and will provide them with the experience, skills, confidence and networks to move on to PhD studentships and beyond.

The call will initially take applications from early, mid-career and established researchers working in prostate cancer research laboratories in UK host institutions. If successful, applicants will be matched with successful intern applicants by the Windsor Fellowship.

¹ Gibney, EG. (2022) ‘How UK science is failing on diversity’, Nature, 612, 390-395.

Application timelines

• Call open for host applications: June 2026

• Host application deadline: Midday on 28 August 2026

• Host application panel review and outcome: September 2026

• Call open for intern applications: October 2026

• Intern application deadline: November 2026

• Interns matched with hosts: November-December 2026

• Intern interviews with hosts: January 2027

• Confirmation of successful candidates: February 2027

• Issuing of Internship Programme awards: March 2027

• Windsor Fellowship-led training for intern and host lead applicants: April-June 2027

• Internships held: July-August 2027