NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre

Current training & funding opportunities

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Register today for the 2023 Respiratory Genomics Conference

The Inaugural Respiratory Genomics Conference is being held at St Martin’s Conference Centre, Leicester on the 14th and 15th of November. The conference is intended to ‘engage and inspire international Respiratory Genomics community’ and early career researchers are especially welcome. 

To register visit: Respiratory Genomics Conference 2023 | Genetic Epidemiology | University of Leicester

MRC Clinical academic research partnerships (CARP deadline 16th November 2023)

To provide research-qualified healthcare professionals, not currently undertaking any substantial research activity the opportunity to form a collaborative high-quality research partnership with established leading biomedical and applied health researchers through protected time and funding to enhance their research skills and experience.  https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/clinical-academic-research-partnerships/

If anyone is interested in applying for a CARP please contact Rebecca Hames (rebecca.hames@leicester.ac.uk) or Colin Veal (colin.veal@leicester.ac.uk) for support with the application and please note the tight timeframe for submission

NIHR Academy Future Focused Leadership Programme (FFLP)

FFLP is recruiting to its next Leaders cohort. This is a 12 month free immersive programme, which incorporates residential workshops, webinars and online modules. The programme allows you to apply your learnings/new skills to your current role and network with other NIHR Leaders. 

To be eligible for the leaders stream you must:

  • currently lead at a national level for NIHR, have demonstrable leadership influence as part of NIHR or hold an NIHR Research Professorship award. For example, you might be a Chair or Co-Chair of a governance board, or leading an NIHR strategic work stream which involves different parts of NIHR/its partner
  • be able to show how your leadership contribution relates to the strategic aims of NIHR
  •  able to identify leadership challenges from your NIHR role that you can work on as part of the programme
  • You can find out more information about the programme and apply now on the NIHR Academy FFLP webpage. The closing date for applications is 1pm Thursday 7th December 2023.

Council for Allied Health Professions Research (CAHPR) Learning

We are hosting a programme of online teaching sessions throughout 2023 and 2024. Each webinar is hosted by one of our CAHPR Regional Hubs and is for everyone, from the research curious to the research champion! Please join us.

Disseminating your research – charting your progress, top tips to navigate peer review

CAHPR South Central hub is delighted to invite attendees to a two-session writing and dissemination event. This is part two of the course and we recommend you sign up for both to get the most out of the learning.

Starting out in research: experiences of AHPs applying for their first research funding

This webinar will focus on the experiences of early career researchers securing their first funding and top tips on how to be successful. We will cover experiences from AHPs securing NIHR, PCAF, Wellcome Fellowships, Charities and Professional group funding.

Let’s get published

Leicester Partnership Trust is offering support sessions in writing up material you want to get published, such as a clinical case, QI, service evaluations.  Join one of the MS Teams sessions, no need to book.

Implementation Science Training

This programme is made up of four modules, which are designed to assist you to build capacity and prepare for implementation in your particular settings. Because implementation is a complex process, it is beyond the scope of this programme to include everything, however, it does cover all of the main themes.

Completing each module will help you to progress along your journey towards implementation readiness. However, there is no one size fits all that will guarantee the successful implementation of an innovation. Instead, the modules are intended to help you reflect on what needs to happen during the different stages of your implementation readiness journey. The goal is to support you to consider your options and to help you to make informed choices. 

Implementation Science Training | arc-em.nihr.ac.uk


The NIHR Academy Mentoring Programme is seeking to build on its pool of mentors drawn from across the wide NIHR Academy Member leadership population, and to reach out to postdoctoral NIHR Academy members from the NIHR Infrastructure (e.g. BRC) or in an NIHR School who may wish to join the programme as a mentee.

The programme is now open for expressions of interest from mentors and mentees. Colleagues may be interested in joining the programme as mentors or mentee, and we would also be grateful if you could circulate the below information to your networks as appropriate.

More information about the programme can be found on the NIHR Academy mentoring webpage. You can also read about the experience of last year’s mentees and mentors.

Any questions can be directed to the NIHR Academy’s Development and Support team developmentandsupport@nihr.ac.uk. 

NIHR Career Development Event for post doctoral researchers

Birmingham Monday 6 November 2022

Email icbs@nihr.ac.uk for more information

The NIHR Pre-Application Support Fund

Please be aware of a new funding scheme from the NIHR which may be of interest to anyone thinking of applying for future NIHR Research Professorships.

The Pre-Application Support Fund is a new scheme providing extra support to those who need it to enhance their chances of making a successful application to an NIHR career development scheme in the future.

The fund is open to applications with a closing date of 1pm on 30th November 2023. https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/nihr-pre-application-support-fund-round-1/34439