NIHR Academy - Round 2 HEE/NIHR ICA Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship (PCAF) scheme competition launched

The PCAF scheme supports early career researchers to:

•    undertake a personalised academic training programme
•    prepare an application for a doctoral level research training fellowship
•    continue to develop their clinical role

Applicants should currently be one of the ICA programme eligible professions. 

The PCAF scheme is a two-year award full time or it can be taken part-time (60% - 95% FTE). During that time awards holders will split their time equally between their clinical position and the training and development funded through the PCAF scheme.  
 
What’s new for PCAF scheme in Round 2?
Full-time academic training option
Applicants can request a 12-month award undertaking the academic training full time
 
Paid clinical development time
Applicants can request up to 20% clinical development time, paid for through the award and constituting part of the academic training time
 
Closing date: 1.00pm, 11 April 2019
 
For more information and the full eligibility criteria please visit www.nihr.ac.uk/pcaf