NIHR GOSH BRC Knowledge Transfer Scheme

Call is now closed. The scheme will be launched again in June 2024.

The NIHR GOSH BRC Career Development Academy is pleased to announce the launch of the Knowledge Transfer Scheme, which aims to support early career researchers to learn new key technologies or techniques and to strengthen collaborations or develop new partnerships through research placements at external institutes. Around £20k is available in this call to support up to four placements.

The Knowledge Transfer Scheme permits national or international placements, and we expect placements will be for between two and four weeks. Applicants can request funding of up to £5,000 for their placement and the request should be proportionate to the length of the placement. Longer placements will be considered where there’s sufficient justification and we recommend you contact the BRC to discuss this before preparing an application.

Applicants can apply for costs associated with travel, accommodation, visa, subsistence and any daily commute costs, which must align with their employer’s expenses policy. Applicants will be required to seek permission from their employer. They will also need to seek permission from the host institute for the placement and evidence this in their application via a letter of support.

For anyone who is interested in applying for the scheme but circumstances make it challenging to access, please contact the brc@gosh.nhs.uk

• Applications are welcome from early career researchers substantively employed by either GOSH or UCL GOS ICH, including clinicians, non-clinical researchers, nurses, AHPs, pharmacists and health care scientists and any others not mentioned here.
• Applications are also welcome from early career researchers employed by our partner sites (Alder Hey, Birmingham and Sheffield Children’s hospitals) where they are proposing for the research placement to be at GOSH/UCL GOS ICH or where they can demonstrate the proposed placement is to learn a new technology/technique or to develop a new partnership that directly relates to or directly benefits a collaborative project between partner site(s) and GOSH/UCL GOS ICH.
• You do not need to have had prior links with the BRC to be eligible to apply.
• For this call, an early career researcher is defined as someone who is within six years** of receiving their PhD (or equivalent), has ≤£250k in total grant income as Primary Investigator across their career (excluding their own salary e.g., a fellowship grant) and does not hold a tenured academic position. **six years of full-time active research pro rata. Eligibility can be extended for reasons such as caring responsibilities, illness, career breaks or change in profession, clinical activity and any extenuating circumstances that resulted in time away from research. Contact the BRC (brc@gosh.nhs.uk) if you have any queries regarding your eligibility for this call.
• The research being explored during the placement must align with at least one of the BRC’s research themes. NIHR funding is formally not allowed to support any research using animals; therefore, any area of research or new technology/technique/skill must not involve animal work.
• Applicants must also have at least six months remaining on their contract with their substantive employer from the end date of the proposed placement.

• Those interested in applying should read the guidance and submit a completed application form as a word document to brc@gosh.nhs.uk.
• Please also submit a copy of your up to date CV and letter of support from the host institute for your placement as part of your application.
• The deadline for applications is Friday 06 October.
• A Review Panel, which will include representatives from the BRC’s Career Development Academy, BRC Junior Faculty and BRC Leadership team, will assess applications using the criteria outlined in the guidance document.
• We expect to inform applicants of the outcome of their application within a month of the deadline.

Click here to download the guidance and application form

Please contact brc@gosh.nhs.uk with any queries.