Leicestershire Healthcare Inequalities Improvement Doctoral Training Programme

The Leicestershire Healthcare Inequalities Improvement DTP is open for a new round of applications. If you are an allied health professional, a nurse, a midwife, a junior doctor or a GP with a passion for research and for improving health inequalities, this is the opportunity for you.

Thanks to funding from the Wellcome Trust, the University of Leicester are offering funding opportunities for 25 Research Fellows over five years, which will provide nurses, midwives, allied health professionals and doctors with the chance to pursue academic research.

Funding provided by the PhD Programme for Healthcare Professionals (HCP's) will cover three years' salary for each Fellow, as well as experimental research costs and training, delivered in partnership with the University of Leicester, Loughborough University, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester City Council's Public Health team, and Leicester City CCG.

The Fellows will also benefit from well-established partnerships across the regional and national healthcare system, local government, industry and community groups in addition to the expertise at Leicester with the aim of developing a generation of innovative world-leading researchers in under-represented groups of health care professionals addressing important areas of health inequalities.

The programme will open to new applications in January 2023.

The programme will offer:

• Various projects to support nurses, midwives, allied health professionals and doctors
• Funding will cover three years' salary for each Fellow, as well as experimental research costs and training
• Total of 25 awards over 5 years (may be taken on a part-time basis - can be discussed at interview)#

To make an application, click here.

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