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NIHR GOSH BRC Doctoral Training Support Fund 2025
The Doctoral Training Support Fund invites doctoral students to apply for up to £5,000 consumables funding to support their translational clinical research or experimental medicine PhD project.
The deadline for applications is Friday 26 September 2025 at 5.00 p.m.
Aim
The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) recognises the benefit of supporting academic trainees in developing the next generation of clinical and non-clinical scientists to improve both the health and wealth of the UK. The NIHR Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre (GOSH BRC) will continue its support for doctoral trainees by providing competitive consumables grants to augment the existing non-pay funding available within their studentship awards. These competitive awards also provide an excellent opportunity for students to get experience with small grant writing.
Funding call information
The Doctoral Training Support Fund invites proposals for up to £5,000 for consumables funding. The scheme is open to translational clinical research and experimental medicine projects in the areas of child health from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH), UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH) or GOSH BRC partner site doctoral students. Supported projects must be patient and/or disease relevant research including basic laboratory science, pre-clinical and early-phase clinical research (phase 0-II). Submissions to this scheme should align with at least one of the NIHR GOSH BRC's five strategic research themes.
Please note that these awards aim to provide support for additional questions/experiments that were not originally part of the PhD project but have evolved during the PhD as initial data/results have been gathered. Therefore, a case must be made in this respect.
There is £10,000 available in this funding round. The GOSH BRC award cannot be used to fund research using animals and cannot be used to fund costs of travel, equipment or extend the studentship, for example, by paying salary or stipend costs. Funds may be accessed from 14 November 2025 and must be fully spent by 31 March 2026.
How to apply
- If you'd like to apply, please read through the guidance document and complete the application form which can be found here: Guidance and Application Form
- Applicants must complete the application form and submit one electronic copy as a word document (with e-signatures) to brc@gosh.nhs.uk by Friday 26 September 2025, 5.00 p.m.
- Please contact brc@gosh.nhs.uk if you have any questions about the scheme.