Professor Nathan Davies is the recipient of our 2026 Senior Leader Vivensa Academy Excellence Award. We spoke to him about leadership rooted in personal values, his plans to build research capacity and his commitment to creating lasting change in the field of ageing research.
We have partnered with Sense about Science to offer our Academy members who are early career researchers free priority places on their Voice of Young Science Programme.
We talk to Dr Mahmoud Maina – our 2026 Rising Star in the Vivensa Academy Excellence Awards – about his research spanning two continents.
Following our sixth round of Ignition Fund awards we have provided general feedback for those who were unsuccessful.
We talk to the winners of the new ‘Team Achievement’ category in our annual Vivensa Academy Excellence Awards – the Manchester Urban Ageing Research Group (MUARG). Here, members share their approach to co-production, plans for their 10th anniversary celebration and their hopes for the future of the research group.
Do you have an idea about research on ageing, that you would like to pitch?
We have partnered with Sense about Science to offer our Academy members who are early career researchers free priority places on their Voice of Young Science Programme.
We are offering 25 Academy members a funded place on First Create The Media’s Ready TEDdy Go! storytelling and presenting workshop.
Back in August 2025 we announced that we were funding five places for Vivensa Academy members to join Zinc’s Inflection Programme. As the 12-week interdisciplinary programme has just finished, we spoke with the five Academy members we funded.
Funding support for individuals wishing to pursue a PhD by Publication.
Following our sixth round of Ignition Fund awards we have provided general feedback for those who were unsuccessful.
Read our general feedback on on the Rising Star and Senior Leader nominations to the 2025/26 Vivensa Academy Excellence Awards.