Career opportunities for clinical academics
Find out how we can support you to establish and develop your clinical academic career.
If you’re looking for career support outside of clinical academia, read through our opportunities for academic researchers by career stage.
Funding schemes
Clinical academic training programme
We fund clinical PhDs by offering clinical research training fellowships and MB-PhDs, which can fully fund your medical school tuition fees. Find opportunities and apply through our host locations.
Fellowships and bursaries
For clinical trainees pre-PhD stage
For researchers developing independence
For researchers establishing an independent research group
Clinical research funding scheme
This modular scheme funds high-quality clinical research, associated translational research and collection of samples and data.
Other funding schemes
Many of our funding schemes are open to both academic researchers and clinician scientists.
Mentoring, coaching and networking
Women of Influence
Get fresh perspectives from leading businesswomen who can provide women, early in their research careers, with support and wisdom from outside academia at a critical time in their development.
Leadership coaching
Take part in free coaching designed to help you develop your full leadership potential by boosting the skills needed to progress further in your career.
Research conferences and events
We host a range of conferences and events designed to showcase cutting-edge science, bring together an international scientific community and facilitate collaborations. Our funded clinical academics will also be invited to attend our clinical researchers meeting every two years. Join in to network with your colleagues and discuss solutions to common challenges clinical academics face.
Training and development
The clinical academic training and careers hub (CATCH)
CATCH aims to be the home for information on clinical academic careers, showcasing and promoting career options in clinical academia, providing advice and building links between clinical practice and academia.
Entrepreneurial programmes
Our entrepreneurial programmes, run through our translational arm Cancer Research Horizons, will show you how to build a business, connect you to a network of like-minded people and help you find the right advice and support, when you need it.
Policies and guidance
Flexible research careers support
These policies outline where we can be flexible with our eligibility criteria to accommodate your circumstances and make sure we support you in developing your research path.
Disability and accessibility guidance
We offer support for grant applicants and grant holders who are disabled or have a long-term health condition.
UK clinical academic training principles and obligations
This document sets out principles and obligations of all UK institutions and clinical trainees in receipt of nationally competitive funding for clinical academic research training.
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