AREF Essential Grant Writing Skills Programme May/July 2022

Application Deadline: 30 March 2022

Summary: The African Research Excellence Fund (AREF) grant writing workshop aims to enable talented early-career health and health-related researchers from countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to build skills to develop their own research and fellowship proposals of the quality required to win competitive international, regional and national funding. Applications are welcomed from researchers researchers who are actively working on challenges to human health and are trained and experienced in one or more of the following disciplines: biomedicine; physiology and pharmacology; clinical sciences; epidemiology; mathematics and statistics; environmental health; “one health” (veterinary science); behavioural, social and economic sciences; and health policy and systems research. To ensure equity across research organisations, no more than two shortlisted participants will be finally selected from any one research institution.

Target group and Eligibility:
Early Career Researchers: PhD/DPhil/MD within the previous 6 years OR a medical/clinical qualification and a research Masters degree within the previous 6 years.
Citizen of a country in Sub-Saharan Africa and in the early stages of your research career, doctorate
Currently employed in Sub-Saharan Africa by a recognised university and/or research institution.
A significant part of your current employee role is to develop and conduct health research.
Do not already have a significant portfolio of international research grants (Combined value of £250,000 or more).

Details: https://www.africaresearchexcellencefund.org.uk/grant-writing