Overview
Population health sciences are concerned with the study of social and environmental influences on physical and mental health and well-being, with reference to a range of ‘up-stream’ influences such as early life experiences, the social and economic conditions in which we live and environmental exposures that can affect wellbeing. A key aim is to understand how and why ill-health varies within and between populations and across the life course, and how to improve the health of the public through clinical or public health interventions including those that may be delivered outside conventional health services.
Health of the public research, which falls within this remit, is defined by MRC as “...population-based research into the promotion and maintenance of health, the frequency, burden and causal pathways of ill-health, and the effectiveness of interventions designed to reduce or prevent ill-health". Relevant areas of enquiry include the distribution and social patterning of health and well-being, ill health and health related behaviours, social and biological determinants of health and their interaction, the accumulation of risk and health trajectories throughout the life course and across generations, and the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of preventive or therapeutic interventions aimed at risk reduction in whole populations.
Disciplines within population health sciences relevant to this scheme include, but are not limited to:
Social, clinical, life course and genetic epidemiology
Biostatistics
Health demography
Medical sociology
Health psychology
Medical anthropology
Human geography
Health economics
This scheme is open to early career researchers seeking to acquire formal multidisciplinary research training in a range of the above disciplines (or related disciplines). The prospective fellow’s research project and training environment must enable them to acquire complementary skills and expertise in large-scale quantitative and qualitative study design, data collection and analysis, in order to become independent research scientists.
Who can apply?
Pre-doctoral candidates:
Applicants who do not hold a PhD/DPhil, MD or Masters Degree in a relevant discipline are expected to study for such a qualification within their Fellowship programme of research training.
Medical or dental graduates should be post-registration up to and including specialty registrar (StR) grade or be at the equivalent level in general practice or dentistry. More experienced StR grade applicants will preferably have worked for a period in a department carrying out clinical research.
Nurses, midwives and members of the allied health professions must have completed their professional training and hold a Masters degree, or equivalent postgraduate research-oriented qualification.
If you have started a PhD, you may apply for a Fellowship only if, at the proposed start date, you have not been registered for more than 12 months full-time.
Special emphasis is placed on having a strong, relevant training programme in an excellent research and training environment. Pre-doctoral candidates need to demonstrate interest in interdisciplinary research and the potential for developing a research leadership role in the future.
Post-doctoral candidates:
Science graduate applicants should hold a PhD or DPhil in a relevant discipline or expect to do so by the time they take up the award with no more than four years post PhD research experience.
We will also consider applicants who have a research-oriented Masters degree with three or more years of relevant postgraduate experience that can contribute to their development as researchers.
Special emphasis is placed on having a well articulated programme of training and skills development that would allow the Fellow to become an independent research scientist by the end of their award. The Fellow must play a leading role in their project.
Pre- and Post Doctoral candidates:
There are no residential requirements for post-doctoral applicants, although there are some requirements for pre-doctoral applicants. Please refer to the link under 'Guidance for applicants'. If you are invited to interview you will be expected to demonstrate a commitment to the UK research effort in the area of Population Health Sciences beyond the period of the award.
Fellows may be based at UK universities, medical or dental schools, research council institutes and units, charity-funded research centres, or other approved academic institutions.
As part of the MRC’s equal opportunities policy, consideration will be given to applicants who are returning to science following a career break. There are no age limits for any of our schemes and all Fellowships may be held part-time to fit in with domestic responsibilities.
Funding provided
Pre-doctoral candidates:
Full economic costs do not apply to pre-doctoral fellowships. At the pre-doctoral level, the fellowship provides a competitive personal salary up to but not including NHS consultant level, and a research training support grant of up to £15,000 per year. This may cover such items as consumables, PhD fees, equipment, conference travel, and other course fees; however, each item must be separately costed and justified. Where animals are requested for the project, funding may be sought separately from the research training support grant. If the fellowship includes an element of research training outside the UK, overseas travel to the training centre and living allowances may also be requested separately from the research training support grant.
If you have started a PhD and you have not been registered for more than 12 months full-time you must seek standard pre-doctoral funding. Payment of full economic costs is conditional on the receipt of your PhD, and any FEC for the post-doctoral period of the award should be claimed at the end of the fellowship. Please note it is your responsibility to provide documentary evidence of the PhD to support any such claim. Pre-doctoral salaries will be paid up to, but not including, NHS consultant level.
Postdoctoral candidates:
At the postdoctoral level, the award provides the fellow’s competitive salary, research training costs (in and/or outside the UK), research consumables expenses, travel costs and capital equipment appropriate for the research project, and all other relevant costs under Full Economic Costs (FEC). The population health scientist fellowship is primarily intended to support the training and development of the fellow. Research staff fees and the costs of collecting or generating substantial primary data are not normally allowed, unless approved exceptionally by the MRC office before submission.
Pre- and Post Doctoral candidates:
The research fellowship provides the opportunity to spend time in an overseas research centre, a second UK research centre or UK industrial centre. The aim is to provide a concentrated period of training that could not be achieved as effectively within the academic host institution. We would normally support with justification one visit, which may be no longer than 12 months. However, the Panel may agree to requests for visits to more than one centre on the grounds of training needs. These should not be simply networking visits. You should be prepared at interview to discuss in detail any visits proposed.
Supervisor’s fees should be kept to minimum unless there is a specific training required and they will be closely scrutinised. When resources are needed for access to data and databases, applicants are encouraged to seek institutional commitment to help with the cost.
Deadlines and submission details
This fellowship competition is held once a year. There is no need to submit an outline application. Please see the schedule and deadlines for fellowships web page for closing dates.
Please submit your completed application by 4pm on the advertised closing date to:
Research Career Awards
Medical Research Council
20 Park Crescent
London
W1B 1AL
Guidance for applicants
Predoctoral application form, predoctoral guidance notes
Postdoctoral application form, postdoctoral guidance notes
Part H5 – Clinical Trials
Current scientific priority areas
Deadlines for applications
Assessment criteria
Fellowship terms and conditions
Residence eligibility requirements
For further information please contact:
Contact: Fellowships Team
Telephone: 020 7670 5405
Email: fellows@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Fundingopportunities/Fellowships/Populationhealthscientist/index.htm
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
Population health sciences are concerned with the study of social and environmental influences on physical and mental health and well-being, with reference to a range of ‘up-stream’ influences such as early life experiences, the social and economic conditions in which we live and environmental exposures that can affect wellbeing. A key aim is to understand how and why ill-health varies within and between populations and across the life course, and how to improve the health of the public through clinical or public health interventions including those that may be delivered outside conventional health services.
Health of the public research, which falls within this remit, is defined by MRC as “...population-based research into the promotion and maintenance of health, the frequency, burden and causal pathways of ill-health, and the effectiveness of interventions designed to reduce or prevent ill-health". Relevant areas of enquiry include the distribution and social patterning of health and well-being, ill health and health related behaviours, social and biological determinants of health and their interaction, the accumulation of risk and health trajectories throughout the life course and across generations, and the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of preventive or therapeutic interventions aimed at risk reduction in whole populations.
Disciplines within population health sciences relevant to this scheme include, but are not limited to:
Social, clinical, life course and genetic epidemiology
Biostatistics
Health demography
Medical sociology
Health psychology
Medical anthropology
Human geography
Health economics
This scheme is open to early career researchers seeking to acquire formal multidisciplinary research training in a range of the above disciplines (or related disciplines). The prospective fellow’s research project and training environment must enable them to acquire complementary skills and expertise in large-scale quantitative and qualitative study design, data collection and analysis, in order to become independent research scientists.
Who can apply?
Pre-doctoral candidates:
Applicants who do not hold a PhD/DPhil, MD or Masters Degree in a relevant discipline are expected to study for such a qualification within their Fellowship programme of research training.
Medical or dental graduates should be post-registration up to and including specialty registrar (StR) grade or be at the equivalent level in general practice or dentistry. More experienced StR grade applicants will preferably have worked for a period in a department carrying out clinical research.
Nurses, midwives and members of the allied health professions must have completed their professional training and hold a Masters degree, or equivalent postgraduate research-oriented qualification.
If you have started a PhD, you may apply for a Fellowship only if, at the proposed start date, you have not been registered for more than 12 months full-time.
Special emphasis is placed on having a strong, relevant training programme in an excellent research and training environment. Pre-doctoral candidates need to demonstrate interest in interdisciplinary research and the potential for developing a research leadership role in the future.
Post-doctoral candidates:
Science graduate applicants should hold a PhD or DPhil in a relevant discipline or expect to do so by the time they take up the award with no more than four years post PhD research experience.
We will also consider applicants who have a research-oriented Masters degree with three or more years of relevant postgraduate experience that can contribute to their development as researchers.
Special emphasis is placed on having a well articulated programme of training and skills development that would allow the Fellow to become an independent research scientist by the end of their award. The Fellow must play a leading role in their project.
Pre- and Post Doctoral candidates:
There are no residential requirements for post-doctoral applicants, although there are some requirements for pre-doctoral applicants. Please refer to the link under 'Guidance for applicants'. If you are invited to interview you will be expected to demonstrate a commitment to the UK research effort in the area of Population Health Sciences beyond the period of the award.
Fellows may be based at UK universities, medical or dental schools, research council institutes and units, charity-funded research centres, or other approved academic institutions.
As part of the MRC’s equal opportunities policy, consideration will be given to applicants who are returning to science following a career break. There are no age limits for any of our schemes and all Fellowships may be held part-time to fit in with domestic responsibilities.
Funding provided
Pre-doctoral candidates:
Full economic costs do not apply to pre-doctoral fellowships. At the pre-doctoral level, the fellowship provides a competitive personal salary up to but not including NHS consultant level, and a research training support grant of up to £15,000 per year. This may cover such items as consumables, PhD fees, equipment, conference travel, and other course fees; however, each item must be separately costed and justified. Where animals are requested for the project, funding may be sought separately from the research training support grant. If the fellowship includes an element of research training outside the UK, overseas travel to the training centre and living allowances may also be requested separately from the research training support grant.
If you have started a PhD and you have not been registered for more than 12 months full-time you must seek standard pre-doctoral funding. Payment of full economic costs is conditional on the receipt of your PhD, and any FEC for the post-doctoral period of the award should be claimed at the end of the fellowship. Please note it is your responsibility to provide documentary evidence of the PhD to support any such claim. Pre-doctoral salaries will be paid up to, but not including, NHS consultant level.
Postdoctoral candidates:
At the postdoctoral level, the award provides the fellow’s competitive salary, research training costs (in and/or outside the UK), research consumables expenses, travel costs and capital equipment appropriate for the research project, and all other relevant costs under Full Economic Costs (FEC). The population health scientist fellowship is primarily intended to support the training and development of the fellow. Research staff fees and the costs of collecting or generating substantial primary data are not normally allowed, unless approved exceptionally by the MRC office before submission.
Pre- and Post Doctoral candidates:
The research fellowship provides the opportunity to spend time in an overseas research centre, a second UK research centre or UK industrial centre. The aim is to provide a concentrated period of training that could not be achieved as effectively within the academic host institution. We would normally support with justification one visit, which may be no longer than 12 months. However, the Panel may agree to requests for visits to more than one centre on the grounds of training needs. These should not be simply networking visits. You should be prepared at interview to discuss in detail any visits proposed.
Supervisor’s fees should be kept to minimum unless there is a specific training required and they will be closely scrutinised. When resources are needed for access to data and databases, applicants are encouraged to seek institutional commitment to help with the cost.
Deadlines and submission details
This fellowship competition is held once a year. There is no need to submit an outline application. Please see the schedule and deadlines for fellowships web page for closing dates.
Please submit your completed application by 4pm on the advertised closing date to:
Research Career Awards
Medical Research Council
20 Park Crescent
London
W1B 1AL
Guidance for applicants
Predoctoral application form, predoctoral guidance notes
Postdoctoral application form, postdoctoral guidance notes
Part H5 – Clinical Trials
Current scientific priority areas
Deadlines for applications
Assessment criteria
Fellowship terms and conditions
Residence eligibility requirements
For further information please contact:
Contact: Fellowships Team
Telephone: 020 7670 5405
Email: fellows@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/Fundingopportunities/Fellowships/Populationhealthscientist/index.htm
Please kindly mention Scholarization.blogspot.com when applying for this scholarship
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