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New Growth

Internships

The next round of ARC Wessex internships will open on 18th November and close at 11pm on 13th January 2025 with up to 20 internship spaces available in our biggest investment yet.

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The awards are available to individuals or teams to:

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  • Undertake a small-scale research project or pilot, or analysing existing data

  • Explore the current evidence base and undertaking a review of the literature

  • Implement research findings in your service

  • Explore and build collaborations or networks with research active individuals and academics in your field 

  • Build research partnerships across community settings, such as with local authorities or  community groups  and undertake patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE) to identify research issues and priorities, or inform future work 

  • Initiate or progress a clinical/practitioner academic career through the development of a fellowship application, i.e., pre-doctoral, PhD, and post-doctoral fellowships 

  • Managers to explore and consider building research capacity within their team

  • The award is available to individual and teams involved in research delivery to support their careers

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Award types:

Getting Started – Aimed at all health and/or care, practitioners and applied health researchers, working in the healthcare sector, social care sector, local authority, or voluntary sector in Wessex. Including, but not limited to social care practitioners, nurses, midwives, pharmacists and allied health professionals.

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Develop and Progress - Those who fit the above criteria AND who have recently completed (usually within the last four years), or soon to be awarded a PhD, but haven’t yet established themselves as an independent researcher. Applicants must have been awarded their PhD by the time they start their award.

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Team – This award is available for teams of individuals who would like to work together to explore and develop research opportunities within their service/organisation, build wider research collaborations or consider developing grant applications for future research funding to address locally relevant issues. This award should have a lead applicant/s and include a range of team members. diversity in terms of factors such as ethnicity, gender, institution and career stage is strongly encouraged.

 

We will be holding an open live Q&A session on 9th December 16:30 – 17:30 on Teams to ask any questions about the application form or the internships themselves.

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In addition, the next Social Care Lunchtime seminar will be focussed on applying and undertaking an internship from a Social Care perspective. See below

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Both will be recorded

 

Examples of application questions, FAQ’s, and a spending plan can be found below , please note the questions may differ in the live application form.

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