Deadline: 14-May-25
The RSTMH (Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene) Early Career Grants Programme provides awards for those who have not had equivalent research funding in their own name before.
Purpose
- To enable early career researchers and global health professionals in the field of tropical medicine or global health to undertake clinical or scientific research and/or fieldwork, either as stand-alone projects or distinct elements within a larger project.
Thematic Scope
- Applications can be on any area of tropical medicine or global health including infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, neglected tropical diseases and external factors that affect global health.
- The programme funds projects across the research spectrum, including lab-based, clinical, translation, implementation, and policy-related research, either as stand-alone projects or distinct elements within a larger project. The Early Career Grants also fund research projects linked to PhDs, but do not fund tuition fees for PhD or MSc degrees.
- The Early Career Grants will not fund projects that use only secondary data.
Funding Information
- The maximum RSTMH Early Career Grant award is GBP £5,000 including any relevant tax on purchases.
Eligible Costs
- Consumables
- Fieldwork expenses
- International travel
- Equipment
- Computers, tablets and phones
- Training
- Local dissemination
- Ethics approval
- Contingency
- Tax on purchases where relevant
- Supervisor stipends
- Data analysis and statistical expertise
- Transcription fees
- Translation costs
- Overhead costs for institutions
- Stipends for research assistants or community health workers
- Stationery
- Reimbursement for participants’ time
- Reasonable travel reimbursement
Ineligible Costs
- Alcohol.
- Salary or stipend for awardee.
- Registration fees, travel and accommodation for conference or event attendance.
- Publishing costs/fees for academic journals. Awardees may be eligible for an automatic publication fee waiver or discount for the RSTMH journals. Some awardees may be eligible to apply for publishing costs.
- Miscellaneous costs.
- Business class travel or alcohol consumption.
- Tuition fees for PhD or MSc.
- Bank charges.
Eligibility Criteria
- Early Career Grants are for those who have not received a research grant in their own name before. They can be based in any country and can be working in any organisation.
- RSTMH anticipate that most applicants will be at the start of their careers, though it recognises that some more experienced professionals may be new to research and will still be eligible to apply for a grant.
- Both members and non-members of RSTMH can apply for an RSTMH Early Career Grant funded by RSTMH partners. However, if awarded, membership will be provided to awardees (until the awardee’s research report delivery deadline) to ensure they can benefit from the full benefits of membership of RSTMH.
- Applicants who are existing RSTMH members are also eligible for RSTMH funded grants as part of the Early Career Grants Programme. Find out more about RSTMH membership and its other benefits here.
Assessment Criteria
- Early career status.
- Validity of the research question.
- Quality of the project design and methodology.
- Feasibility of delivering the project outcomes.
- Accuracy and reasonableness of the budget.
- Impact of research project.
- Value for money.
For more information, visit RSTMH.