Elizabeth Blackwell Early Career Fellowships - University of Bristol

Elizabeth Blackwell Early Career Fellowships 2014/15

The University of Bristol has made available funding from their Wellcome Trust ‘Institutional Strategic Support Fund’ award to support a small number of exceptionally talented and motivated postdoctoral researchers who seek to further their career by applying for a prestigious, independent, externally-funded fellowship.

For candidates from the University of Bristol we will offer a salaried position for up to one year to enable applications to be made to, and secured from, external funding bodies, and for your research vision to be developed along with mentoring by senior academic staff.

For exceptional external candidates we will consider applications for extended periods of funding of up to two years. The duration of individual awards will be negotiated on a case by case basis. Applicants are required to discuss this with Kathleen Sedgley (K.Sedgley@bristol.ac.uk) at the earliest opportunity, and no later than Monday 3rd February 2014.

Applicants should have a very strong publication record and be highly competitive for prestigious external fellowship funding based at the University of Bristol, and be seeking to work on a topic aligned to any one of the University of Bristol’s health-related research themes which include: Population health and epidemiology; Neurosciences and psychiatric disease; Cardiovascular science and disease; Biochemistry and cell biology; Infection and immunity; Bioengineering; Cancer; Regenerative medicine; Musculoskeletal diseases; Zoonotic disease.

You must be eligible for externally funded ‘Early Career’ fellowships or similar. Eligibility for these schemes typically runs from the final year of your PhD up to 6 years post PhD, although it varies between different funding bodies. You are required to check your eligibility with the external funding bodies and forward confirmation of this eligibility with your Elizabeth Blackwell Early Career Fellowship application.

The Elizabeth Blackwell Early Career Fellowship will offer:

A salaried position to enable you to develop and submit a quality external Fellowship application. This is offered on an annual basis through a competitive recruitment process. If successful, you will be appointed as an Elizabeth Blackwell Early Career Fellow at the University of Bristol.
Space within the most suitable School to support your area of research. This may be laboratory space and/or office space and is will be negotiated with the relevant Head of School.
Resources up to a maximum of £10,000 per annum pro rata to help develop your vision.
Access to a range of locally based advice and outstanding facilities and resources.
Guidance through the external fellowship application process from initial concept to submission. This will cover suitable funding sources, costing the proposal, peer review of your application and interview support.
Advice on crafting your external fellowship application from experienced researchers familiar with your field. An experienced academic mentor will lead in providing advice on your application writing, responding to peer review and in providing interview practice as appropriate. This will ensure that you submit a high quality application and have the best chance of success. Academic mentorship through your appointment as an Elizabeth Blackwell Early Career Fellow will also provide independent career progression advice. This will continue through the period of the externally funded Fellowship that you secure.
Career Development will be available to you. There is a suite of researcher training opportunities from which you can build a suitable career development programme.

Full details and application form are available from : www.bristol.ac.uk/blackwell/funding

Further information: Further details can be obtained from Dr Kathleen Sedgley by emailing ebi-health@bristol.ac.uk

Deadline: Applications should be submitted to ebi-health@bristol.ac.uk by 09:00 (GMT) Friday 21st February 2014