News, funding calls and events
Here, you’ll find details of news and events from around the ageing-related research community. Members can post details of their funding calls, events and other resources – just click on the button.
Capability Development Training for community-facing organisations
Dunhill Medical Trust is partnering with the team at Moore Kingston Smith Nonprofit Advisory and the University of Birmingham’s School of Social Policy to deliver high quality training as part of a Capability Development Scheme.
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Now open for nominations: 2024/25 Dunhill Medical Trust Academy Excellence Awards
The second round of the Academy Excellence Awards are now open, with a deadline for nominations of 4th November 2024.
Discipline hopping awards – Biomedical and Social Science
Funding for two bursaries. Are you a PhD student in the field of ageing and age-related diseases who is considering transferring from Biological/Biomedical to Social Sciences, or vice versa, or hopping from academia to policy
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New funding opportunity: Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers
We’re excited to announce that DMT has joined the other supporters of the Academy of Medical Sciences’ Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers scheme. Funding of up to £30,000 to cover the cost of research consumables
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Call for proposals now open: implementing evidence-based interventions to support older adults’ independence
The expression of interest stage for our new funding call on the topic of “implementing evidence-based interventions to support older adults’ independence” is now open.
Academy Ignition Fund launched
Have you joined the DMT Academy yet? It’s an inclusive community of researchers and community innovators working to improve later life health and well-being outcomes. As well as being able to search for, and connect with,
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EPSRC funding opportunity – Engineering Healthier Environments
Apply for EPSRC funding to develop an interdisciplinary Micro Network or Micro Network Plus focused on developing new and existing collaborations within the topic of engineering healthier environments. Micro Network and Micro Network Plus can
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The James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership (PSP): hearing and dementia
The James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership (PSP) is launching their second survey to understand the hearing and dementia research priorities of people who are deaf, or have hearing loss, tinnitus, hyperacusis or vestibular disorders. The PSP are
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RNID PhD studentship scheme now open
The RNID PhD studentship scheme aims to encourage the best students to become involved in hearing, deafness and tinnitus research in the UK. The projects should bring tangible benefits closer for deaf people and those
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Associate Principal Investigator Scheme
Your study may qualify for participation in the NIHR Associate Principal Investigator Scheme. This free initiative is designed to cultivate future Principal Investigators among health and care professionals while providing additional support for study delivery at
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Dementia end-of-life care research funding
Recent estimates suggest that there are currently 982,000 people living with dementia in the UK and that this will rise by 40% to 1.4 million in 2040. Despite dementia and Alzheimer’s disease being the leading
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Versus Arthritis announces priorities for the financial year
Versus Arthritis is investing £15.5 million across all four of its research strategy priority areas over the next financial year. This includes investing in the first of its multidisciplinary research consortia. You can find out more
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