Integrated Clinical Academic Schemes
Fully Funded Research Schemes for Health and Social Care Professionals Outside of Medicine
If you're a health and social care professional outside of medicine considering or currently doing academic research, you can access funded learning to establish yourself as a future researcher. This scheme is funded by Health Education England and offered by London South Bank University in collaboration with King's College London.
Three Schemes for Future Research Professionals
Scheme 1: Internship
The internship scheme is designed to assist successful applicants to provide a starting point on a clinical academic career pathway and to acquire pre-Masters level experience.
The scheme will provide for a two-day per-week (or equivalent) secondment for successful applicants to undertake an internship scheme with the explicit aim of providing ‘interns’ with the requisite skills, knowledge and competence to enable access to a postgraduate research scheme in London.
HEE will make a direct training allowance contribution to seconding NHS Trusts towards employer costs of £5,000 per awardee.
Scheme 2: Pre-Doctoral
The Pre-doctoral scheme is run by King’s College London in collaboration with London South Bank University (LSBU). The ICA Pre-doctoral scheme aims to support nurses, midwives, pharmacists, and allied health professionals to prepare a competitive application for a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Doctoral Research Fellowship or other equivalent research training award.
Participation in this scheme will enable development of a clinical academic career along the HEE/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic (ICA) pathway.
HEE will make a direct training allowance contribution to seconding NHS Trusts towards employer costs of £5,000 per awardee.
Scheme 3: Post-doctoral
This scheme aims to support nurses, midwives and Allied Health Care Professionals (AHPs) who meet the eligibility criteria to prepare a competitive application for a NIHR Advanced Clinical and Practitioner Advanced Fellowship (ACAF) or other relevant award, that enables them to continue to develop a clinical academic career along the HEE/NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic (ICA) pathway.
HEE will make a direct training allowance contribution to seconding NHS Trusts towards employer costs of £5,000 per awardee.