Happy New Year everyone! Hope those of you who celebrate it had a great Christmas break.
There have been a lot of grant calls and events posted over the break, so here's what you need to know:
Funding opportunities
- MRC-KHIDI: UK-Korea Partnering Awards, Jan 2018 - to foster links between the UK and Korea
- British Academy: Visiting Fellowships, Jan 2018 - for non-UK humanities/social sciences researchers to visit UK collaborators for six months; can be to visit collaborators in a different discipline (e.g. medical scientists!)
- Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance: Clinical and Public Health Research Fellowships, Feb 2018 - three Fellowship schemes for researchers wanting to establish an independent research career in India
- Harvard South Africa Fellowship Programme, Feb 2018 - Fellowships for South Africans to study at Harvard University
- AREF: Excell African Health Researcher Excellence and Leadership Programme, Mar 2018 - to enhance research capacity in global health; open to institutes based in Sub-Saharan Africa
Visit our external funding webpage for details on these and plenty of further relevant grants we've spotted for you.
Training Opportunities
- Oxford-UCT PhD student exchange, closes Feb 2018
- Epidemiological evaluation of vaccines: efficacy, safety and policy course, July 2018
Don't forget that if you're an Associate VALIDATE member you can apply for a VALIDATE training grant to attend a training course or workshop, or for a lab exchange with another VALIDATE lab - details on our training grants can be found here and we have lots of training ideas (or you can come up with your own) here.
External meetings
- BactiVac Inaugural Annual Network Meeting, UK, Feb 2018
- UCL-AHRI Symposium: Towards HIV and TB elimination in South Africa, Feb 2018
- British Society for Parasitology Spring Meeting 2018
- 2nd European Veterinary Vaccinology Workshop, May 2018
Job Opportunities
- Postdoctoral Fellowship for Molecular Biologist (TB diagnostics) , Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
- Postdoctoral Fellowship for Immunologist, Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York
This week on Twitter we've retweeted interviews about the different careers a PhD can lead to; an article on how the distrust of science could lead to epidemics; a reminder that the European Melioidosis Congress will take place on 19-21 March 2018 in Oxford; how a study has shown that women are less likely to be awarded research funding when applications are assessed primarily on the background of the principal investigator rather than the merits of the science; 10 simple rules for drawing scientific comics from PLOS; news that diagnosisng TB using a urine test is a step closer; and much more @NetworkVALIDATE. Do follow us!
If you're an early career researcher anywhere in Africa (or diaspora), take the GloSYS (Global State of Young Scientists) survey to contribute to the development of evidence-based policy recommendations in support of young Scientists in Africa. Meanwhile, The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) and the World Bank would like to hear about your global experiences of conducting clinical research and your thoughts on where capacity is missing, in LMICs in particular - complete their survey here.
We wish everyone a productive and funding-filled 2018!
Published: 10 January 2018
