We are excited to announce the fourth call for pump-priming proposals aimed at supporting career progression of early-career researchers in environment and health.
The Pump Priming awards aims to support applications by early-career researchers affiliated with the MRC Centre to an established fellowship programme, by providing small-scale funding to support a novel research project that will enhance the preparation and submission of a high-quality, competitive fellowship application to be hosted in one of the Centre’s groups. One important change to this year’s call is that we are looking to award researchers with up to 7 years’ post-doctoral experience instead of 5 years.
Applicants are invited to apply for up to £15k per project.
Important dates
Deadline for the submission of applications: 28th September 2023
Notification of successful proposals: October 2023
Start date of the award projects: November 2023- January 2024
All awarded projects must end by: 31 July 2024
Report submission: Within two months of the end of the project
Fellowship application submission: Within 12 months of the project start date
Proposals must be submitted to the Centre Scientific Manager (a.ioakeimidou@imperial.ac.uk) with the subject line “MRC Centre Pump-Priming Call 2023“. Only applications submitted before the deadline, will be considered.
Fred Piel (f.piel@impecial.ac.uk), Director of the Joint Academic Career Development Programme, and Steph Wright (s.wright19@imperial.ac.uk), Deputy Director of the Joint Academic Career Development Programme, are happy to provide one-to-one support. Please email them directly to arrange a meeting if you need any help with your pump priming application.
Please refer to the Pump-Priming call guidance document and use the Pump-priming application form 2023 provided.
