NIHR GOSH BRC Junior Faculty Early Career Researcher Excellence in Impact Award

The National Institute for Health and Care Research Great Ormond Street Hospital Biomedical Research Centre (NIHR GOSH BRC) Junior Faculty Early Career Researcher Excellence in Impact Award nominations are now open.

The NIHR GOSH BRC is a collaboration between Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (GOS ICH) funded by the NIHR. The GOSH BRC aims to support facilities and world-leading expertise allowing our staff and NHS, university and industry collaborators to conduct pioneering translational research into childhood illnesses. The GOSH BRC Junior Faculty is a group of early career researchers who support the career development of talented child health researchers, celebrate their successes, creativity and innovation, and ensure early career researchers have leadership opportunities and input to all BRC decisions.

The awardee will receive a prize of £500 towards consumables and/or conference attendance and present their award-winning work at the NIHR GOSH BRC showcase on Monday 12th June 2023. We invite nominations for outstanding early career researchers from GOSH, GOS ICH or from the Paediatric Excellence Initiative (PEI) partner sites (Alder Hey, Birmingham and Sheffield Children’s Hospitals). The awardee will be an early career researcher who is making a significant contribution to the field of translational research aligned to their career stage. Their research should align with the remit of one of the BRC themes (https://www.gosh.nhs.uk/our-research/our-research-infrastructure/nihr-great-ormond-street-hospital-brc/about-our-biomedical-research-centre/our-research-themes/) and the nomination cannot include basic science projects (i.e. not translational) and any research using animals due to NIHR funding rules.

• Any early career researchers substantively employed by GOSH, GOS ICH or GOSH BRC PEI including clinicians, non-clinical, nursing, AHP, health care scientist staff and any others not mentioned here.
• Self-nominations are accepted with supporting letter of endorsement.
• Awardee must be available to present at the BRC showcase on 12th June.

• The £500 award would need to be fully spent by 31st March 2024.
• We will ask the awardee to submit a breakdown of how they intend to spend the £500 to the BRC for approval to ensure only eligible costs are supported.
• The award cannot be used to support basic science projects (i.e. not translational), any research using animals.

To nominate an individual, please complete the Nomination Form and submit to brc@gosh.nhs.uk by 5pm on Friday 12th May 2023. Nomination forms will then be reviewed by members of the BRC Career Development Academy leadership team and will be assessed based on the individual’s academic contributions, alignment to the BRC’s aims and objectives and potential to be a future leader in their field. Demonstration of patient and public involvement and engagement and equality, diversity and inclusion principles throughout the nominees research will also be considered in the assessment.

Please contact brc@gosh.nhs.uk if you have any questions.