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Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowships

7 January 2025
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This new scheme aims to support professionals and researchers from health or voluntary and community sectors in the UK to develop research within the medical humanities. The year-long, funded fellowship will enable you to develop or deliver a research project through a medical humanities lens on a critical issue encountered in your practice.

This might include engagement activities to explore a topic or develop a research idea with potential collaborators from the medical humanities, community groups and/or health sectors, such as exploratory workshops or focus group.

Applications are particularly encouraged for research projects which set out to explore health challenges arising at the intersection of mental health and health inequalities, and aim to develop new and experimental approaches to tackling these health challenges, particularly in connection to underrepresented groups, race and health, neurodiversity or lived experience research.

The Fellowships will run from June 2025 to June 2026. During the fellowship, you will:

  • Receive a grant of up to £12,000 to support your research plan
  • Become a member of the Discovery Research Platform, with access to a range of events, activities and networks
  • Enjoy one-to-one support to help you develop your research ideas
  • Attend five cohort workshops throughout the year (two in-person, three online) where you’ll learn from medical humanities examples, share learning, build links and showcase your work.
     

Applications from, or focused on, underrepresented or less heard from groups within health research are strongly encouraged. Please note that the scheme is open to UK residents only.

Deadline for applications: 28 February 2025 at 12 noon.

 

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