Primary Care Clinical Progression Fellowship
To support the primary care clinical workforce develop their research career, the NIHR School for Primary Care Research (SPCR) provides Primary Care Clinicians Career Progression Fellowships. These part-time awards are for primary care clinicians with a strong academic record and a commitment to a career in academic primary care.
All primary care clinicians are welcome to apply including practice nurses, health visitors, dentists, primary care pharmacists, and optometrists working in primary care (please note this list is not exhaustive).
Successful applicants will become part of the SPCR Trainees Community and have access to various opportunities provided by the School. More information about the community can be found on the SPCR website.
About the programme
The fellowships are for 12 months and it is anticipated that these are taken as 0.5 FTE and will be available to take up from August onwards. These awards are intended to be flexible and will allow primary care clinicians to develop a formal doctoral training fellowship application whilst further developing their research portfolio. All applicants must ensure that their proposed research project is compatible with the NIHR remit.
The fellowship may be undertaken at any one of the nine universities within the NIHR School for Primary Care Research, including Exeter. Applicants do not have to be employed by Exeter at the time of applying for the fellowship. For more information about the research programme at Exeter, please follow this link.
The application form does not include a costing section. Only successful applicants will be asked to provide a costing for their fellowship, however, applicants should discuss the fellowship funding with the host institution’s local Research Manager or costing team prior to applying.
Each SPCR member has support in place to help early-career researchers in preparing their Fellowship application. Each member has dedicated training leads in place who can support you or sign-post you. An overview of the training leads can be found at the bottom of this page. As with all research funded by the NIHR, SPCR Fellows are expected to include patient and public involvement (PPI) in their application and research. Each member has a PPI lead in place who can support you with developing your plans.
These awards are for primary care clinicians, notably general practitioners, with a strong academic record and a commitment to a career in academic primary care.
All primary care clinicians are welcome to apply including practice nurses, health visitors, dentists, primary care pharmacists and optometrists working in primary care (please note this list is not exhaustive).
Potential applicants are strongly encouraged to contact the relevant university to discuss hosting their planned research - if you are interested in carrying out the fellowship at the University of Exeter, please contact Dr Jane Smith at jane.smith@exeter.ac.uk or Dr Emma Pitchforth at e.pitchforth@exeter.ac.uk.
A standard application form should be completed, which can be found on the SPCR website, and sent to the SPCR team at applications.spcr@keele.ac.uk.
The most recent call for applications has recently closed, please check back here for opportunities in the future.
Guidance notes can be downloaded here, and an overview of FAQs can be found on the SPCR website.
If you have any questions on the application procedure, please contact the SPCR team via applications.spcr@keele.ac.uk.
Contact
If you are interested in carrying out a Primary Care Clinical Career Progression Fellowship at the University of Exeter, please contact SPCR Exeter training and capacity development co-leads Dr Jane Smith at jane.smith@exeter.ac.uk or Dr Emma Pitchforth at e.pitchforth@exeter.ac.uk.
