Feedback on the sixth round of applications for the Academy Ignition Fund
Following our sixth round of Ignition Fund awards we have provided general feedback for those who were unsuccessful.
Academy Ignition Fund
Using Ignition funding to develop qualitative research skills
Dr Jennifer Stephenson is a Clinical Academic Pharmacist at King’s College London, specialising in geriatrics. Her research aims to improve outcomes for older adults through safer and more effective medication use. In this article she explains how she used an Ignition Fund award to develop her research skills by attending the Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods Summer School at King’s College London.
Feedback on the fifth round of applications for the Academy Ignition Fund
Following our fifth round of Ignition Fund awards we have provided general feedback for those who were unsuccessful.
Using Ignition funding for international collaboration
Dr David Henderson is a Quantitative Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Here he explains how he used his Ignition Fund award to undertake a three-week visit to the Karolinska Institutet (KI) in Stockholm in September 2025.
Using Ignition funding for a travel fellowship to Australasia
Dr Grace Pearson is a Clinical Lecturer in Ageing Education at the University of Bristol Medical School and a Specialty Doctor in Geriatric Medicine at the Royal United Hospital, Bath. She was recently awarded Ignition funding to undertake a travel fellowship to Australia and New Zealand.
Using Ignition funding to better understand the role of immune cells in muscle ageing
Dr Mark Ross was among our first Ignition Fund awardees in 2024 and used the funding to undertake a secondment to the University of Birmingham to learn how to isolate immune cells from muscle tissue.
Using an Ignition Fund award to co-chair a Special Interest Group on ageing and autism
Aphrodite Eshetu from UCL describes co-chairing a Special Interest Group (SIG) session focused on ageism and autism.
Feedback on the fourth round of applications for the Academy Ignition Fund
Following our fourth round of Ignition Fund awards we have provided general feedback for those who were unsuccessful.
Feedback on the second round of applications for the Academy Ignition Fund
Following our second round of Ignition Fund awards we have provided general feedback for those who were unsuccessful.
Call for applications: DMT Academy Ignition Fund
The Dunhill Medical Trust’s latest member-only resource is our Ignition Fund. Academy Members are able to apply for up to £5K which can be used flexibly to support some training or professional development, or to support some impact and engagement …
Feedback on first round of applications for the Academy Ignition Fund
Thank you to everybody who applied to the first round of the Academy Ignition Fund. The deadline for applications was on Friday 23rd August 2024 and we received a lot of interest in our new scheme. We recently let …