NIHR GOSH BRC Research Hospital Internships

The GOSH Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) Research Hospital Internships aim to support nurses, allied health professionals, clinical scientists, and other associate clinical non-medical professionals to develop a research proposal and apply for a Pre-doctoral, Doctoral or Post-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship.

The BRC Research Hospital Internships scheme has an exemplary track record of supporting individuals through fellowship applications for a range of awards including NIHR pre-doctoral fellowships, PhDs, NIHR post-doctoral bridging and advance fellowships.

Funding is provided by the GOSH BRC as part of the Career Development Academy, GOSH Children’s Charity and GOSH Directorate of Research and Innovation. Support will be organised by the Research Hospitals Clinical Academic Careers Lead, with support provided by Outcomes and Experience Research in Children’s Health (ORCHID) and wider BRC clinical academics. ORCHIDs clinical academic faculty is focused on research capacity building through providing structured support to nurses, allied health professionals, clinical scientists and any other associate clinical, non-medical professional across the Trust in line with the GOSH Research Hospital Strategy.

Proposals should address one of the two aims which will determine the most appropriate source of funding:

1. Awards supported by the BRC will align with the broad remit of the BRC, which is to support translational research for children and young people.
2. Awards supported by GOSH Charity and GOSH Directorate of Research and Innovation will not necessarily have a translational focus but will address ambitions set out in GOSH’s wider research hospital strategy and have an impact on the care and treatment provided to patients at GOSH. Audit and service evaluation projects are not eligible.

We welcome enquiries from applicants at all stages of research expertise and training. Therefore, your research plan can be in the very early stages with identification of a need for future study, through to a developed research proposal, planned methods, supervision team and collaborators. Dependent on applications, we aim to award internships for pre-PhD, PhD and post-doctoral career stage.

The expected outputs of all these internships are the submission of a fellowship application, and therefore applicants must be committed to doing so, demonstrated from their application and interview

An open event to discuss the internship programme will take place on Wednesday 02 August 2pm - 4.30pm. Please let Graeme O'Connor know and join via Teams.

APPLICATIONS FOR THIS CALL ARE NOW CLOSED

1. If you'd like to apply, please read through the GOSH BRC Internship Guidance and Application Form.
2. The deadline to apply is Tuesday 29 August 2023. Applicants must send a completed application form (as a word document) and a copy of their CV to brc@gosh.nhs.uk.
3. Please contact Graeme O'Connor (graeme.o'connor@gosh.nhs.uk) if you have any questions about the scheme.