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    • Where experts in ageing-related research connect with social innovators

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Collaborations

Our combined commitment to actively involve older people in research

The Chief Medical Officer for England’s 2023 Annual Report on Health in an Ageing Society identified that more research needs to include older people. As a result of this, the Vivensa Foundation has joined a number of organisations to …

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Putting VCSE-researcher-public sector partnerships at the heart of ageing research 

By funding projects that bring together academic researchers and community organisations, we aim to foster collaborations that result in real-world impact for communities of older people. 

Introducing our 2024 Joint RNID / Vivensa Foundation Fellow

We are delighted to introduce Przemyslaw (Prez) Jarzebowski as the sixth recipient of our Joint Fellowship with the RNID.

Outcome of the Joint Doctoral Training Fellowship with the British Geriatrics Society for 2023/24

The sixth round of the Joint British Geriatrics Society/Vivensa Foundation Doctoral Training Fellowship scheme opened in late 2023. This scheme aims at supporting frontline healthcare professionals interested in pursuing a career in ageing-related research — including doctors, nurses, and …

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Joint Vivensa Foundation / RNID Translational Research Grants

We are delighted to be partnering with RNID to support their Translational Research Grant scheme which aims to support and accelerate the development of research discoveries into potential new treatments to protect and restore hearing and /or silence tinnitus. …

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Joint Vivensa Foundation / RNID Early-career Post-doctoral Fellowship

The Vivensa Foundation is working with RNID to build research capacity in age-related hearing research, by supporting the career development of the UK’s most talented new ‘investigators’ towards becoming independent scientists. The latest call for proposals is now open …

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2025 Joint BGS / Vivensa Foundation Training Fellowship – open for applications

The next round of our Joint Doctoral Training Fellowship scheme with the British Geriatrics Society is now open, with a deadline for applications of 14 March 2025.

Call for applications: Joint MRC-Vivensa Foundation pre-doctoral clinical research training fellowship

We are collaborating with the Medical Research Council (MRC) to jointly fund their predoctoral clinical research training fellowship scheme, which provides registered healthcare professionals with funding to undertake a PhD.

Taking an outcomes focused approach to improving care for older people with multiple needs

DMT CEO Susan Kay, together with Social Finance CEO Adam Swersky opened the launch event of a new report on 3 October.

New funding opportunity: Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers

We’re excited to announce that DMT has joined the other supporters of the Academy of Medical Sciences’ Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers scheme. Funding of up to £30,000 to cover the cost of research consumables is available. The grants …

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Introducing our 2023 Joint British Geriatrics Society / Dunhill Medical Trust Doctoral Training Fellow

We are delighted to introduce Dr Liam Barrett as the sixth recipient of our Joint Doctoral Fellowship with the British Geriatrics Society.

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Introducing our 2023 Joint RNID / Dunhill Medical Trust Fellow

We are delighted to introduce Dr Elisa Martelletti as the fifth recipient of our Joint Fellowship with the RNID, the national charity supporting people who are deaf, have hearing loss or tinnitus.

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