BRC Fellowship Funding Call: Research to strengthen equity, diversity, and inclusion in Translational Research activities

The NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) is funded to turn cutting-edge scientific discoveries into diagnostics, treatments, and preventive strategies that benefit patients and the wider population. The BRC also supports the training and development of the next generation of world-leading researchers and research delivery teams.

We are committed to developing and sustaining equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in our research, working with our local communities to reduce health inequalities, and ensuring that the results of our research are accessible to those who need them.

NIHR Cambridge BRC wishes to award funded fellowships to researchers based in the East of England to lead projects on strengthening equity, diversity, and inclusion in translational research areas. 

Please apply using this link no later than 5th November 2026. All applications must be fully submitted by the deadline date. We cannot accept late applications. 

Once your application is submitted, please email the following 4 documents to us at brccapacitybuilding@medschl.cam.ac.uk

  1. Your CV 
  2. Full research plan(maximum 2 pages) 
  3. Letter of Support completed & signed by the head of school/department/clinical lead/CEO (or equivalent) – form attached.
  4. A letter of support from the academic supervisor/mentor for the applicant.

 Examples of suitable applications:

Applications can relate to any aspect of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion. Applicants will be required to articulate how their proposed study will strengthen how equality, diversity and inclusion are addressed in translational research. Potential examples may include:

  1. An interview study aiming to understand the barriers to research engagement for people with cognitive impairment. This may then support future work to develop and evaluate approaches to improve the inclusion of people with cognitive impairment in translational research.
  2. A survey of healthcare managers to examine current practice regarding the use of positive action to improve the workforce diversity and identify barriers and facilitators. This may then support the design of future work to develop and evaluate approaches to improve diversity in healthcare workforce.
  3. A secondary analysis of translational research data to investigate whether research participants are representative of the population of interest. Findings regarding which communities or demographics have been underrepresented and inform the future design of recruitment strategies and inclusive research methods to improve the representativeness of translational work in this area.