Funding Opportunities from Other Providers

RCN Foundation scholarships, bursaries and grants fund a wide variety of learning, development and research opportunities, providing the support individuals need to make a difference to quality patient care. The RCN Foundation believes that patients deserve the best possible experience and care, delivered by well trained and high performing professionals. For nurses to be able to keep up to date with new developments and use their knowledge and skills to transform the care their patients receive, it is important they engage in development opportunities and shared learning.

See Royal College of Nursing Bursary Schemes

The Florence Nightingale Foundation has a number of categories of scholarship to support your career, open to applications in all areas of care. Please visit their website for details of individual bursary schemes, and research priorities for the current/forthcoming academic year.

See Florence Nightingale Foundation Research Bursaries

Health Education England (HEE) and The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Integrated Clinical Academic (ICA) Programme provides personal research training awards for healthcare professionals (excluding doctors and dentists) who wish to develop careers that combine clinical research and research leadership with continued clinical practice and clinical development. The new ICA Programme is replacing the previous Clinical Academic Training (CAT) and Healthcare Science Research Fellowships programmes.

See ICA HEE/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Programme for non-medical healthcare professions

Internships offer an introduction to all aspects and roles across clinical academic research from trial design, data management through to undertaking practical research in a clinical environment. These internships will offer an introduction to all aspects and roles across clinical academic research from trial design, data management through to undertaking practical research in a clinical environment.

See HEE internships

HETV is offering financial support to help NHS practitioners (non-medical) in Thames Valley to undertake accredited courses in the care of the older person, with an emphasis on person-centred care, preventing illness, maintaining independence and dignity, supporting mental health, and care close to home. Funding may be sought for any accredited course which helps practitioners to support the older person through person-centred care, up to and including a Masters programme.

See Health Education Thames Valley bursaries for accredited courses in the Care of the Older Person

All NIHR calls for project funding are published on these pages, including themed calls for applications in the Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation Programme, the Health Services and Delivery Research Programme, the Health Technology Assessment Programme, and the Public Health Research Programme. If you’re not sure which Programme your project proposal might fit within, visit the NIHR’s tool: Identify the right programme.

See NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies funding calls

The Iolanthe Midwives Awards enable recipients to undertake professional education or a project that helps to improve midwifery practice. Applicants must be able to demonstrate that the programme undertaken is relevant to midwifery and will lead to improvements in care through practice, education, research or management studies.

See The Iolanthe Midwifery Trust ‘Iolanthe Midwives Award

A number of £1,000 to £2,000 awards are open to UK, EU and International students studying a  full-time Masters in any of the following Departments: Department of Biological and Medical Sciences;  Department of Clinical Health Care;  Department of Psychology;  Department of Social Work and Public Health;  Department of Sport and Health Sciences.

See Oxford Brookes University ‘John Henry Brookes Scholarships’ in Health and Life Sciences

The Scholarship of up to £7,500, is offered for the fees or subsistence of a nurse normally undertaking a taught Masters’ programme relevant to nursing or research in an academic department in the United Kingdom, or at an approved academic department of nursing overseas. The Scholarship can be awarded to an individual or shared and is specifically intended for nurses in, or planning to return to, clinical practice. The successful candidate(s) will be expected to submit a report on their work at the end of the year in which the Scholarship is awarded, and may be asked to share some aspect of their work at a Scholarship Seminar. Usually runs annually closing in February.

See The Barbers’ Company Clinical Nursing Scholarship

Health Education England’s Genomics Education Programme (GEP) is the NHS’s method of ensuring staff have the knowledge, skills and experience to ensure that the health service remains a world leader in genomics and precision medicine – particularly for NHS England Genomic Medicine Centres (GMCs) and the contribution to the 100,000 Genomes Project. The Master’s in Genomic Medicine and individual CPPD modules have been developed to provide a multidisciplinary and multi-professional course in genomics that can be applied to clinical practice and medical research. The Masters and selected modules are available through a number of Universities and HEE provide funding for a number of places.

See Funding to undertake modules from Health Education England’s Masters in Genomic Medicine

Harkness Fellowships enable mid-career health services researchers to spend up to 12 months in the United States, conducting original research and working with leading U.S. health policy experts. The Fellowships are targeted at professionals who are committed to advancing health policy and practice in The Commonwealth Fund’s principal areas of interest: improving health insurance coverage and access to care; and improving the quality and efficiency of health care services. The Fellowships Projects may include comparisons between the United States and the applicant’s home country. Fellowships are not awarded to support study for academic degrees.

See Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy & Practice