Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund

Veterinary Clinical Leave Fellowship

The Faculty of Health and Life Sciences is pleased to announce the first round of the Veterinary Clinical Leave Fellowship, supported by the Wellcome Trust Institutional Strategic Support Fund.

These Fellowships provide a period of research leave for clinical or paraclinical staff to allow applicants to reengage with high quality scientific research and develop their research profile and skills, enabling them to develop a clinical academic career, combining both clinical practice and high quality bioscience research and ultimately leading to substantive external grant funding and high quality publications. Fellowships are for up to 2 years.

Eligibility: Completed PhD and postgraduate clinical training and undertaking a role in the Institute of Veterinary Sciences which involves substantial amounts of clinical or paraclinical work. Fellowships are to be undertaken in research groups/laboratories which hold significant external funding and ideally should be a different environment from where Fellows have undertaken research previously. Collaborations and placements external to the University of Liverpool would be supported.

Eligible costs: Salary costs for a replacement post to cover Fellows’ clinical, teaching and administrative duties for the period of the Fellowship and research expenses. Animal costs for lab studies will need to be explicitly justified and comply with the Wellcome Trust's policy on animal use.

Match funding expectations: Fellows’ salary costs to be funded for the duration of the Fellowship.

Requirements from awardees: A short report at the end of the funding period detailing how funds were used. Awardees are to respond to periodic requests for updates on further funding, publications and promotions. Additionally, awardees are to ensure all publications reference support from the Wellcome Trust and are made gold open access. Separate funding is available for this.

It is recommended that applicants contact Peter Clegg (), Head of Institute, Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease, to discuss before starting an application.

Please send your completed application form, with a 2 page CV, to Peter Clegg () and Sophie Archard (), HLS Faculty Research and Impact Officer, by Monday 30 April 2018. Decisions will be made by a panel convened in May, chaired by the Head of Institute, Institute of Ageing and Chronic Disease.

Application Form

Applicant name
Department
Institute/School
Post title
Appointment date
Qualifications
Contact email
Contact telephone/address
Supervisor/research mentor name/s
Title of project:
Proposed project start date:
Duration of clinical leave:
Aims and objectives of clinical leave: (200 words):
Summary of proposed research project to be undertaken during clinical leave, including background, work leading up to the project and methods to be used (700 words):
Please specify how the project falls within the Wellcome Trust's remit (200 words):
Lay summary of research (200 words):
References:
Detail your career to date, listing any research engagement/training, and identify why you wish to undertake this period of clinical leave (300 words):
Identify how the clinical leave period will allow your research career to develop (200 words):
Statement of support from line manager, including details of how any teaching role will be maintained during clinical leave period (250 words):
Summary of funds requested (250 words):
Please outline funds you are requesting, what they will be used for and how they will help to support your project and overall research aims.
Details of funds requested:
Eligible costs are salary costs for a replacement post to cover Fellows’ clinical, teaching and administrative duties for the period of the Fellowship and research expenses. Animal costs for lab studies will need to be explicitly justified and comply with the Wellcome Trust's policy on animal use.
Description / Amount requested / Match, if applicable
Total requested from this fund:
Please give details of any match funding you have arranged:
If funds for animal studies are requested, please make your case:
If funds for equipment are requested, please provide further details (i.e. whether the equipment is available already at another site, amount of use it will get, other potential users, maintenance costs, etc.):
Declaration
  • I confirm that the above information is correct
  • I understand that I will be required to acknowledge the Wellcome Trust on all publications arising from this funding, and will be provided with funds to ensure all publications are made gold open access
  • I understand that I will be required to provide an end of grant report once my funding period has come to an end
  • I understand that I may be required to respond to periodic requests for updates on further funding, publications and promotions
Applicant’s signature:
Date:
Head of Institute’s signature:
Date:

Please send your completed application form, with a 2 page CV, to Peter Clegg () and Sophie Archard (), HLS Faculty Research and Impact Officer, by Monday 30 April 2018.