A range of opportunities to nurture professional growth and support a skilled, diverse and inclusive research culture.

David Hague Early Career Investigator of the Year Award

The award, worth £25,000 in research expenses with a £1,500 personal prize, is presented each year to the most outstanding early career researcher in the field of biomedical dementia research. Applications open around July each year.

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Observe our Grant Review Board

Applications to observe our Grant Review Board have now closed.  Please keep an eye on our website for future opportunities. 

Training and development for grant holders

As part of your funding application (for Fellowships, PhDs and Major Project Grants), we encourage you to ask for costs for ECR training, if it is not already being offered at your host institution. The training must help you advance in your dementia research career.

You can ask for up to £1,000 annually per person for this training, just remember to justify these costs in your application.

The costs can be for career development, technical and research skills training. Examples include:

  • Leadership training, for example the EMBO leadership and management course.
  • Grant management skills.
  • Budget and people management.
  • Reproducibility and integrity.
  • Equality, diversity, and inclusion.
Flexible working opportunities

At Alzheimer’s Research UK we aim to support and accommodate flexible working arrangements for staff employed on any of our grants, if the employing institution agrees to the request. Please get in touch with our Research team prior to submission if you intend to undertake an award part-time.

If you’re funded by us and your circumstances change, you can request flexible and part-time working. We will try to accommodate changes to your grant, as long as they are in line with the original objectives and the employing organisation agrees.

When applying for ARUK funding, reviewers will take career breaks, part-time working or other commitments into account when assessing your record of outputs, research achievements and career progression.

This may include, but is not limited to, clinical and teaching commitments, secondments, volunteering, part-time working, time spent in different sectors, periods of parental or long-term sick leave, caring responsibilities, or other personal circumstances. You may also wish to detail any periods where you were unable to work or where your work was disrupted because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

If you’re funded by us and are planning to take a period of leave, the Alzheimer’s Research UK Research team can support you by pausing or extending your grant.

Fast-track UK visa route for talented researchers

Researchers from outside the UK are eligible to apply for a fast-tracked visa if they are named on a grant from Alzheimer’s Research UK. The grant must be for more than two years and have a value of over £30,000 per year.  

 

International researchers can apply for a Global Talent visa via two routes: 

  • Endorsed funder route
  • Global Talent Visa fast-track Fellowship Route

The following ARUK Fellowship schemes are eligible for the Global Talent Visa fast-track Fellowship Route: 

  • Senior Research Fellowship
  • Research Fellowship
  • Clinical Research Fellowship
  • Clinical Research Training Fellowship

Holders of any of these Fellowships can apply for fast-track Global Talent Visa endorsement up to 5 years after the end of their fellowship.

More information about the UK Global Talent Visa Fast-track can be found on the UKRI website. 

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