How to apply

Application Instructions

1) A complete Application comprises Forms Part 1 – 8:

  • Form Part 1Application summary and signature page
  • Form Part 2Details of you and your research
  • Form Part 3 Personal Statement on the ‘Impact’ of the Prize
  • Form Part 4Statement by Head of Department or equivalent
  • Form Part 5 (a) A summary of the proposed research and its potential significance (maximum 500 words). This should be written in a form understandable to scientists not specialised in your particular field. Please indicate the key scientific objectives and challenges of the research and note potential medical implications.

(b) The detailed research proposal (not more than four single-sided A4 paper). The text may be accompanied by a maximum of three additional pages of figures plus references.

(c) A one page CV plus a full list of publications; also identify which three you feel to be the most significant and why.

  • Form Part 6Potential Expert Referees
  • Form Part 7Institutional Agreement Form
  • Form Part 8Personal circumstances

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If experiments on animals, for which a Home Office Licence is required, form part of the research proposal, please confirm that the relevant project licence is already available. (If not a copy must be submitted to the Institute before that work is undertaken if a Research Prize is awarded).

If supported by a Fellowship, Programme grant or other award that terminates during the first three years of the Lister award, then the application must be accompanied by a letter from the Head of Department or Finance Office guaranteeing financial or bridging support for the remainder of the first three years.

(All enclosures must be in clear text [not less than 12pt print size], with all margins not less than 3cm wide.)

The original and all copies should be collated.

2) The signed original PLUSseventeencomplete copies (a total of 18 copies of Parts 1-8) should be sent via Royal Mail and returned by Friday 3 November 2017 to:

The Administrator

The Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine

PO Box 2502

WATFORD, WD18 1AE

Telephone: 01923 801886

Email:

3) A copy of the Application form Parts 1-5only should be emailed to the Institute in PDF format as one file.

4) Receipt of all applications will be acknowledged by email.

5) Candidates should be aware that interviews for the short-listed candidates will take place in London on Tuesday 22 May 2018.