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 proposals
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.
Now open for nominations: 2024/25 Dunhill Medical Trust Academy Excellence Awards
The second round of the Academy Excellence Awards are now open, with a deadline for nominations of 4th November 2024.
Investment Advisory Partners: Request for Proposals now live
Following the publication of our Investment Policy Statement earlier this year, we’ve started the search for an investment advisory / consultancy firm, to partner with and support us on our journey to become an ‘impact-conscious’ investor. More details around …
Discipline hopping awards – Biomedical and Social Science
Funding for two bursaries. Are you a PhD student in the field of ageing and age-related diseases who is considering transferring from Biological/Biomedical to Social Sciences, or vice versa, or hopping from academia to policy making institutions. If so …
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 …
Call for proposals now open: implementing evidence-based interventions to support older adults’ independence
The expression of interest stage for our new funding call on the topic of “implementing evidence-based interventions to support older adults’ independence” is now open.
Academy Ignition Fund launched
Have you joined the DMT Academy yet? It’s an inclusive community of researchers and community innovators working to improve later life health and well-being outcomes. As well as being able to search for, and connect with, other researchers and innovators, …
Vivensa Foundation Proleptic Post-doctoral Fellowship scheme
This scheme is targeted towards experienced post-doctoral researchers who are considered to be future leaders in ageing-related research. Funding has been made available to support at least two awards (of three to five years in duration full-time, and up …
Innovation Fellowships in Healthy Ageing
Following the launch of our Innovation Fellowships in Healthy Ageing last year, we are delighted to announce a further round of the scheme for 2024-25 in partnership with Zinc. The scheme introduces researchers to the world of commercial innovation and Fellows will support the development of tech-enabled products and services that contribute to healthy ageing.
Joint DMT-British Geriatrics Society doctoral training fellowship
The Dunhill Medical Trust (DMT) has again partnered with the British Geriatrics Society (BGS) to co-fund a Doctoral Training Fellowship to support front-line health professionals with an interest in developing a career in ageing-related research. The scheme is now open for …
Joint DMT / RNID Early-career Post-doctoral Fellowship
The DMT is working with the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) to build research capacity in hearing research, by supporting the career development of the UK’s most talented new ‘investigators’ towards becoming independent scientists. The latest call …