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Career opportunities for clinical academics

Find out how we can support you to establish and develop your clinical academic career.

Funding schemes

We offer a range of funding and training opportunities for clinical academics. If you’re looking for career support outside of clinical academia, read through our opportunities for academic researchers by career stage.

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Clinical academic training programme

We fund clinical PhDs by offering clinical research training fellowships and MB-PhDs, which can fully fund your medical school tuition fees. Find opportunities and apply through our host locations.

Fellowships and bursaries

For clinical trainees pre-PhD stage

For researchers developing independence

For researchers establishing an independent research group

Clinical research funding scheme

This modular scheme funds high-quality clinical research, associated translational research and collection of samples and data.

Find out more about this scheme

Other funding schemes

Many of our funding schemes are open to both academic researchers and clinician scientists.

Browse all available funding

Mentoring, coaching and networking

Women of Influence

Through this programme, the women in our research community can access mentoring from leading businesswomen to receive useful career support and advice from outside of academia.

Leadership coaching

Our researchers can benefit from coaching offered as a charitable contribution by individual coaches who graduated from the Mastered programme run by executive coach training firm, Meyler Campbell.

Scientific events and webinars

We host scientific conferences, workshops, webinars and other events. Join us to hear about the latest science, present your own research and network with our exceptional community.

Early career clinical academics meeting

We host a meeting for our funded clinical academic trainees every two years. Join in to network with your colleagues and discuss solutions to common challenges clinical academics face. Click here to contact us at research.careers@cancer.org.uk for more information.

Training and development

The clinical academic training and careers hub (CATCH)

CATCH aims to be the home for information on clinical academic careers, showcasing and promoting career options in clinical academia, providing advice and building links between clinical practice and academia.

Entrepreneurial programmes

Our entrepreneurial programmes, run through our translational arm Cancer Research Horizons, will show you how to build a business, connect you to a network of like-minded people and help you find the right advice and support, when you need it.

Policies and guidance

Flexible research careers support

These policies outline where we can be flexible with our eligibility criteria to accommodate your circumstances and make sure we support you in developing your research path.

Disability and accessibility guidance

We offer support for grant applicants and grant holders who are disabled or have a long-term health condition. 

Clinical academic training principles and obligations

This document sets out principles and obligations of all UK institutions and clinical trainees in receipt of nationally competitive funding for clinical academic research training.

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Contact us

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.

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Research careers column 

Our columnists are getting into the weeds of what makes research careers more productive, more rewarding and more successful. 

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