Health Spotlight ECR Small Grant Scheme Round 2
The Health Spotlight is launching the second round of its funding scheme to support early career researchers (broadly understood as including PhDs students, assistant professors, and those new to working at Warwick or returning following a period of leave e.g. parental/sick leave) to develop interdisciplinary approaches to health.
The award in brief
The Health Spotlight small grant scheme is intended to support pump-priming and dissemination or skills development projects.
We particularly welcome applications that sit within the Health Spotlights’ strategic research priority areas:
- Technologies in Health
- Prevention, Public Health and Healthcare Implementation
- Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Interdisciplinary Methodologies in Health
We will also consider submissions spanning any aspect of interdisciplinary health research.
Awards up to a maximum of £2000 to be spent by the end of July 2025
Key dates
Deadline: Monday 24 February 2025 6PM (GMT)
Decision announced to applicants: by 14 March 2025
Funds must be spent by: 31 July 2025
Find the application form here.
To help early career researchers make connections outside of their departments and prepare an application to the small grant scheme, we are launching a parallel scheme called Café Collaborate. We recognise that early career researchers (and those new or newly returned to Warwick) can struggle to identify potential collaborators in other Departments and Schools at the University. It also can be intimidating to approach them, especially if they are senior. We have therefore introduced Café Collaborate to facilitate this process. Café collaborate will ‘match’ early career researchers with appropriate academics/researchers/external stakeholders in different disciplines. The Café Collaborate team will approach a potential partner on behalf of the ECR and support an initial meeting. This meeting will allow the early career researcher to explore and develop their small grant idea collaboratively with the other researcher.
To register for Café Collaborate, please fill in this online form, and let us know what type of researcher (discipline/department/methodology/topic area) you would be interested to meet, and we will try to match you. If you would like to be matched with an external collaborator or stakeholder, please let us know, and we will investigate any existing relationships at the University that could support an introduction. Early career researchers who want to initiate contact with the researcher themselves can do so.