Fellowship opportunities
| Funder | Timings of opportunity | Link to funder site | Previous succesful candiates |
NIHR | |||
| Pre doctoral award | Call opens: January Submission: March | Predoctoral Award | NIHR | Rebekah Burrow |
| Post doctoral award | Call opens: October & April Submission: January & June | Postdoctoral Award (Cohort 2) | NIHR | Dimitrious Koutoukidis, James Sheppard |
| HTA postdoctoral award | Call opens: April Submission: July | HTA Postdoctoral Award | NIHR | |
| EME Post doctoral award | Call opens: April Submission: July | EME Postdoctoral Award | NIHR | Brian Nicholson |
| Doctoral award | Calls opens: October & April Submission: January & June | Doctoral Award | NIHR | Bakita Kasadha, Sharon Dixon, Layla Lavalee |
| Development and Skills Enhancement award | Call opens: July & December Submisson: November & March | Development and Skills Enhancement Award (DSE) | NIHR | Brian Nicholson |
| PhD Programme for Primary Care Clinicians (via SPCR) | TBC | PhD Programme for Primary Care Clinicians — NIHR School for Primary Care Research | Emma Ladds, Anna Seeley |
| Doctoral Clinical and Practitioner Academic Fellowship | tbc | Doctoral Clinical and Practitioner Academic Fellowship (DCAF) Round 4 Guidance Notes | NIHR | Ola Howell |
| Future Leaders Fellowship* | TBC | National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Clinical Future Leaders Fellowship (Cohort 1); https://www.nihr.ac.uk/career-development/research-career-funding-programmes/postdoctoral/clinical-future-leaders-fellowship | None - current cohort is the 1st |
Wellcome Trust | |||
| Early career award | Three times a year - upcoming deadlines July & November 2026 | Early-Career Awards – Funding for Early-Career Researchers | Research Funding | Wellcome | Hannah Forde |
| Career development award | Three times a year - Upcoming deadlines in July & November 2026 | Career Development Awards - Funding for Mid-Career Researchers | Research Funding | Wellcome | |
MRC | |||
| Clinical research training fellowship | Application rounds open 3 times per year, closing in January, April and September | Clinical research training fellowship – UKRI | |
| Early independence: clinician scientist fellowship | Current round closed, upcoming round TBC |
* this is a new fellowship, submissions from Oxford are limited so an internal selection process will run.