We have opportunities for you wherever you are in your career, whether you're new to the lab, or growing your fully-fledged independent research group. Our opportunities are suitable for academic researchers and clinician scientists at all career stages, from fully-funded fellowships to grants to advance individual projects.
Do you need help deciding which opportunity to apply to? Our competency framework can guide you to consider which one is right for you to support your transition to the next career level.
View the framework
Many of our funding schemes are open to both academic researchers and clinician scientists. Additionally, we have a range of schemes specifically tailored to help you develop your career as a clinical academic.
Explore the funding opportunities and support you can access as an academic researcher from early-career PhDs to established group leaders.
We support PhDs to access training to establish their research careers.
We support postdoctoral researchers to continue developing their research careers.
We support our fellows to establish their independent cancer research programmes and transition into scientific leadership positions.
We support established group leaders to continue developing their research careers and become internationally recognised leaders in their field.
We're a proud signatory of the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers, an agreement between stakeholders to improve the employment and support for researchers and researcher careers. It sets out obligations for research funders, employers, line managers and researchers themselves to support the professional and career development of researchers in a higher education environment.
Explore our action plan(PDF, 227 KB)
Read our 2023 Researcher Development Concordat annual narrative statement(PDF, 233 KB)
Continuing professional development is a critical part of any research career as it enables individuals to develop and enhance their skills and knowledge. Our policy sets out our expectations around this for researchers, managers and institutions.
Read our policy on Continuing Professional Development
We develop outstanding cancer researchers through more than just funding. By working with us, you can benefit from support including:
training and development opportunities
mentoring and coaching
networking and events
flexible working opportunities and paid leave entitlements
general career support
Find out more about the additional support you can access
The culture you work in can have a huge impact on your career. Everyone should have access to a positive, inclusive environment where they can thrive.
We're using our voice as a research funder to shape and influence this.
Explore how we support a positive research culture
Our research careers programme managers are here to help our research community and advise researchers who are interested in making an application. Email us to access support.
Our columnists are getting into the weeds of what makes research careers more productive, more rewarding and more successful.
Stay up to date with research funding and partnership opportunities, networking events and conferences and other research news.
