Career Development Fund

Applications now open

The Career Development Fund (CDF) is available for all non-clinical early career research staff within the Faculty of Health. Funding is available for travel, accommodation and registration costs associated with laboratory placements and training courses. Applications can also be sought for an initial membership to a Learned Society, or to host a research symposium. Applications of up to £400 will be considered and we can part fund if other sources of finance are available.

Applications are welcome all year round and are reviewed monthly.

Successful applicants are asked to complete a short report once the placement/course/workshop has been attended.

If you would like more information or to submit an application form (link below), contact the Research Staff Association at fohrsa@sheffield.ac.uk.

Click Here to Download Career Development Fund Application Form

Successful Applicants in 2023

Chiara Sander, Research Technician, Neuroscience, £260 towards an open access program offered by the Center for Biomedical Education and Human Excellence (CBEHx).
Osman Shabir, PDRA/ Fellow, Clinical Medicine, £235 towards a 3-day intensive training placement at the University of Manchester to learn a new technique.
Helen Quirk, Research Fellow, Population Health, £300 towards a course on Theory of Change for Evaluation.
Jen Lewis, Research Associate/ Medical Statistician, Population Health, £400 towards a week-long course on causal inference theory and practice, in Leeds.
Sarah Roscoe & Ben Hall, PDRAs, Neuroscience, £376 towards the organisation of a mini-symposium with international invited speakers.
Katherine Pidd, Research Assistant, Population Health, £220 towards a virtual training course on 'Advanced Multiple Imputation Methods to Deal with Missing Data', organised by the University of Bristol.
Joshua Astley, PDRA, Clinical Medicine, £125 towards the Institute of Physics (IOP) annual membership.
Sally Sanger, PDRA, Population Health, £190 towards an online course on 'Qualitative Research Methods: Advanced Theory and Practice', organised by SCHARR.
Jade Howard, PDRA, Neuroscience, £187.5 towards a virtual course on ‘Developing and Evaluating Complex Interventions’, organised by the University of Glasgow.

Successful Applicants in 2019

Fiona Wright, Histology Manager, IICD, £135: funding towards attendance at a lab innovation meeting
Helena Turton, Research Assistant, IICD, £320: funding towards Bioinformatic training courses, Sheffield, UK.
Nora Markus, Research Associate, SITraN, £273.60: funding towards a Biochemical Society training course in Nottingham, UK.
Thomas Paterson, Research Associate, Dentistry, £400: funding towards a lab visit in Finland
Katie Sworn, Research Associate, ScHARR, £390: funding towards GRADE training, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Caroline Taylor, Research Associate, Dentistry, £240: funding towards a collaborator lab visit, The University of Liverpool, UK.
Noemie Hamilton, Research Fellow, Bateson Centre, £355: funding towards an Edinburgh lab visit.
Lewis Quayle, Research Associate, Oncology & Metabolism, £400: funding towards a laboratory placement designed to develop mRNA sequencing techniques in Sydney, Australia.
Irina Vázquez-Villaseñor, Research Associate, Neuroscience, £160: funding to attned bioinformatics workshops on ‘RNA sequencing analysis for beginners’ and ‘Data manipulation and visualisation’ in Sheffield, UK.
Aban Shuaib, Research Associate, Oncology & Metabolism, £400: funding to visit a potential collaborator lab and give a talk at The Centre for Applied Mathematics in Bioscience and Medicine, Montreal, Canada.
Amy Harding, Research Associate, Clinical Dentistry, £400: funding towards travel and accommodation to attend training on Atomic Force Microscopy, Newcastle, UK.
Jessica Willis, Laboratory Technician, Infection, Immunity & Cardiovascular Disease, £338.50: funding towards an IAT Level 2 Diploma in Laboratory Animal Science and Technology.

Successful Applicants in 2018

Stephanie Shepherd, Research Associate, Neuroscience, £160: funding to attend a bioinformatics introductory course on identifying and characterising variants from NGS, in Sheffield, UK.
Faith Howard Research Associate, Oncology & Metabolism, £367: funding towards course fees to attend a technical course on MRI in practice.
Caroline Wilcock, School of Dentistry, £400: funding to attend a laboratory placement to develop an ex-vivo bone infection model in Cardiff, UK.

Successful Applicants in 2017

Saurabh Jain, Research Associate, Neuroscience, £250: funding to attend the Baker Lab to learn techniques using the mouse experimental autoimmune encephalitis (EAE) model in London, UK.
Sarah Calvert, Research Associate, Academic Unit of Reproduction and Developmental Medicine, £254: funding to attend the Placental Imaging Workshop held in London, UK
Margarita Segovia Roldan, Research Associate, Neuroscience, £400: funding to attend a workshop on ion channels in the brain in health and disease as part of the Cajal Advanced Neuroscience Training programme in Bordeaux, France.
Katja Vogt, Research Associate, Infection, Immunity & Cardiovascular Disease, £360: funding to attend the career talks at the British Society Immunology (BSI) summer school, Leicester, UK.
Laura Gray, Research Associate, Health Economics and Decision Science, ScHARR, £396: funding towards travel, accommodation and course fee to attend the Longitudinal and Missing Data Course held in London, UK.

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