
Healthier Futures Research Fellowships
Supporting the career development of outstanding researchers addressing health inequalities through interdisciplinary research.
The Healthier Futures research platform is offering three, two-year fellowships for researchers in any field who want to pursue interdisciplinary research with the long-term goal of reducing health inequalities.
About Healthier Futures
Health inequalities span the globe, affecting individuals, communities, and populations. From gender to geography, economics to ethnicity, all these factors, and more, affect the opportunities people have to lead healthy lives.
The University of Manchester’s Healthier Futures Research Platform is bringing together academics, policy makers, campaign groups and businesses to act upon the causes and consequences of health inequalities around the world. The Platform will focus on themes including, but not limited to, poverty and deprivation, the environment, employment and productivity, children and young people, ageing, ethnicity and racism, and health and social care resourcing, access and delivery.
The Healthier Futures Research Platform will:
- Mobilise research across disciplines at the University of Manchester to address health inequalities​.
- Build capacity and communities​. Showcase the University of Manchester’s groundbreaking interdisciplinary collaborations​.
- Develop solutions in partnership with practitioners, policymakers and publics.
Funding
We are offering salary (University of Manchester Grade 7) plus up to £10,000 per annum research expenses for two years.
Successful candidates will evidence their trajectory on a pathway to research independence and have a clear plan for using the opportunity of this Fellowship as a stepping stone to secure significant external funding, including prestigious individual Fellowships or interdisciplinary team funding awards. Applications for external funding will be expected early in the second year.
Successful applications will outline new, interdisciplinary research that is innovative and compelling. We define interdisciplinarity as involving perspectives and approaches that would usually be submitted to at least two different Units of Assessment in the Research Excellence Framework and we expect to see a supervisory team that reflects this.
Eligibility
The award is available for academics in any discipline, as a stepping stone to intermediate or senior level fellowship or leadership of a significant research grant. All applicants should already hold a PhD.
While flexible, in broad terms, applicants will typically have 3-7 years of post-PhD experience.
Successful candidates will have clear intellectual links with current University members in order to benefit from appropriate mentorship, advice and support. You will be asked to name a lead supervisor and co-supervisor, both based at the University of Manchester, and a mentor.
Research projects that are developed with external stakeholders with a focus on addressing health inequalities are encouraged.
The award is open to internal candidates and those applying from outside the University.
If awarded, we expect your Healthier Futures fellowship to commence on 3 February 2025. However, if your proposal falls slightly outside of this, we would potentially consider this on an individual basis, if discussed prior to the submission date.
This call has now closed.
Interviews are expected to take place on 17 October 2024
If you have any queries, please contact healthierfutures@manchester.ac.uk