Career Development Fund
Thanks to the popularity of the coffee mornings, and the money raised through company sponsorship, funding is being made available to benefit all early career researchers who should need it.
The Career Development Fund (CDF) is available for all Medicine, Dentistry and Health non-clinical early career researchers. Funding is available for travel, accommodation and registration costs associated with laboratory placements and training courses. Applications may only be partly funded, but exceptional applications may be fully funded. Average funding is £250.
Applications are welcome all year round, with applications being reviewed every month. Unsuccessful applicants are encouraged to re-submit their applications for the next round of review after re-editing the application form.
If you would like any more information about the CDF, or to submit an application form, contact the Research Staff Association at mdh-rsacommittee@lists.shef.ac.uk
Successful applicants reviewed in July 2012:
- Scott Allen - Neuroscience, awarded £252 to visit the Seahorse Bioscience site in Copenhagen.
- Sarah Hsiao - Cardiovascular, awarded £200 to attend The Summer School of Cellular and Molecular Mechanics, London.
- Jovana Serbanovic-Canic - Cardiovascular, awarded £200 to attend The Summer School of Cellular and Molecular Mechanics, London.
Successful applicants reviewed in April 2012:
- Daniel Kelly - Human Metabolism, awarded £250 to attend an Endocrine Training Day in Houston, Texas.
Successful applicants reviewed in January 2012:
- Katija Khan - Neuroscience, awarded £200 to attend a training day at the Neuroimaging Research Facility at San Camillo Hospital, Lido, Venice, Italy.
- Rebecca Hutten - ScHARR awarded £200 to attend 'Introduction to framework in Nvivo', London.
- Jenny Porritt - Dentistry awarded £200 to attend 'A one day training course designed to empower you to motivate your clients and patients', London.
- Sushilaben Rigas – Human Nutrition, awarded £100 for the HEA Accreditation Training course.
- Wei-Yu Lin – Cancer Studies awarded £200 to attend 'Translational research using bioinformatics and epidemiology', London.
Successful applicants of 2011:
- Ed Guccione – Infection & Immunity - the fund granted him money for accommodation and travel to Galway to learn a new technique to obtain high quality RNA extraction from samples with low cell numbers.
- Qi Guang Wang - Human Metabolism - awarded £200 to attend the training course "formation, function and failure with a focus on osteoarthritis" run by the European Calcified Tissue Society & the International Bone and Mineral Society in Athens, Greece.
- Praveen Thokala – ScHARR - awarded £200 to attend a workshop on English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) in London, to aid his understanding of the capabilities of ELSA data set.
