Health and Care Research Wales Faculty Doctoral and Advanced Fellowship Schemes – launching soon

Health and Care Research Wales is pleased to announce the call for applications to the Doctoral and Advanced Fellowship Schemes will open on 25 September. 

The fellowships offer up to three years full-time funding or part-time options over a longer term.  

Applications will be invited from those working across any health or social care-related discipline to undertake research which will benefit the public, health service practice or policy, service users and carers or social care and support services in Wales. 

Applicants should show evidence of a clear commitment to a research career and demonstrate how the award will support their potential to become an independent researcher.  

The Fellowship scheme offers funding opportunities across a broad range of translational or clinical and health services and social care-related or public health topics. All applicants will need to make a strong case for the need for and importance of their research proposal. This will include:  

• a clear description of the clinical/health services/public health/social care/wellbeing need that the research is addressing and provide justification of the importance of that need, in terms of the scale of the problem and/or likely impact on those with the health or care need they are addressing  
• the placing of the research proposed in the appropriate translational or clinical pathway or policy or practice context 
• a description of how the research question was identified and developed and by whom 
• details of how the public research partners such as patients/service users and/or carers been involved in defining questions, design, outcomes and approach to knowledge transfer 
• demonstration that the methods proposed are suitable for answering the research question 
• an explanation of how equality, diversity and inclusion have been taken into consideration when formulating the research question, and how the project address or contribute to equality, diversity and inclusion issues 

Applications open: Thursday 25 September 2025  

Close:  16:00, Tuesday 13 January 2026 

More information can be found on the funding schemes webpage.   

Fellowship Awards surgeries 

If you have any questions about the Doctoral or Advanced Fellowship Award, ask the team at one of the surgeries: 

Doctoral Fellowship 

• Tuesday 30 September 12:30 – 13:30 
• Friday 17 October 10:30 – 11:30 
• Thursday 13 November 14:00 – 15:00 

Advanced Fellowship 

• Friday 3 October 10:30 – 11:30 
• Wednesday 15 October 14:30 – 15:30 
• Monday 10 November 09:30 – 10:30 

To book your place at a surgery please complete the registration form for the Doctoral Fellowship or Advanced Fellowship.