NIHR Fellowship Application Day – September 2026
The next FAD will be in September 2026, date TBC, Online.
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Applying for a fellowship is becoming increasingly competitive. The Fellowship Application Day was developed to give attendees the information they need to improve the quality of their application and make sure that it is focused on what NIHR and their reviewers are looking for.
The Fellowship Application Day is a free-to-attend masterclass, funded and hosted by the NIHR Research Support Service (RSS) hub and Specialist Centre for Public Health delivered by the University of Southampton and Partners. The masterclass provides an overview of how to improve your chances of success when applying for an NIHR fellowship. The day will include expert advice from the funders, previous successful applicants, current funding panel members and RSS advisers.
FAD aims to prepare applicants who intend to apply in the next year to the new NIHR research career development funding programmes, specifically the Doctoral and Postdoctoral Awards. This funding replaces the:
- former Doctoral and Advanced Fellowship Programme,
- the HEE-NIHR Integrated Clinical and Practitioner
- Academic Programme and the NIHR Local
- Authority Academic Fellowship Programme.
