Demystifying the application process: Insights from grant committee meetings

Ever wonder how we decide which applications get funded? If you are an Early Career Researcher (ECR), the way grant proposals are judged can seem like a bit of a mystery. DMT-funded ECRs, Barbara Balocating Dunn and Tim Whitfield, attended a Research Grants Committee meeting to find out what happens. Read on to hear their experience.

Season’s Greetings

We’ll be taking a break over the festive period, so our office will be closed from lunchtime on 22nd December and we’ll then be back at work from Tuesday 2nd January. We’d like to take this opportunity to send …

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Launch of DMT Academy

We’re creating a community of leaders and aspiring leaders in the understanding of ageing and age-related disease and evidence-led development of services, policies, products and interventions that improve our  experience of later life. So if you’re looking for an …

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Re-launch of UK Ageing Research Funders’ Forum (UKARFF)

The UK Ageing Research Funders’ Forum (UKARFF) membership encompasses organisations that provide funding for research into understanding the mechanisms of ageing and age-related disease, improving health and social care for older people and understanding ageing across the lifecourse.  DMT …

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Professor Stuart Parker

The staff and Trustees of the Dunhill Medical Trust are deeply saddened to hear of the death of Trustee, Professor Stuart Parker. Stuart joined us as a Trustee in 2019 bringing his unique blend of intellectual rigour, compassion and …

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Come and join our team…

New year, new job? Come and join us… Following the publication of our Impact Investment Policy, we now have a unique and rare career development opportunity to join our small team, shape the development and implementation of our impact …

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