Birmingham Springboard Fellow – College of Medicine and Health

The College of Medicine and Health (CMH) University of Birmingham offers pump-priming postdoctoral fellowship awards to early career researchers to support development of their independent research programme. This new competitive fellowship scheme aims to support high-calibre post-doctoral researchers to develop proposals for submission to prestigious fellowships schemes such as ERC starter grants, Future Leaders Fellowship, Wellcome / MRC Career Development Awards etc. The fellowship aims to boost the competitiveness of the post holder for these externally funded, independent fellowship applications by offering the opportunity to complete key research outputs in progress, develop new skills and/or generation of preliminary data. The post holder will work in a high-quality research environment and will be sponsored by a senior mentor for development of their independent research within the strategic areas of research in the MDS. The awards are open to both internal and external candidates and will provide salary of the fellow for up to 2 years and research costs. The post holder is expected to submit their independent fellowship Application within the first 12 months of appointment and if/as successful, move into the fellowship role on a new contract within the 2 years