This is a brilliant opportunity for midwives and other AHPs in England if you are planning to apply to apply to NIHR for PhD a fellowship. Do circulate widely. The NIHR Academic Training Advocates are ambassadors for non-medical clinical academic careers. We promote NIHR training and career opportunities, advocate for non-medical clinicians and support individuals beginning or continuing a research career. If you are an early career or aspiring clinical academic, or an organisation developing clinical academic careers we advocates may be able to advise you. Midwife advocates are listed here. https://www.nihr.ac.uk/our-faculty/trainees/support-and-resources-for-trainees/support-for-trainees-in-nihr-infrastructure/training-advocates/contact-us/midwifery.htm regards Jane Sandall Jane Sandall CBE PhD MSc BSc RM HV RN Professor of Social Science and Women's Health NIHR Senior Investigator Lead Maternal Health Systems and Implementation Research Group Department of Women and Children’s Health | St. Thomas' Hospital |London| SE1 7EH School of Life Course Science l Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine | King’s College London [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | 020 7188 8149 | Skype | jsandall EA Rebecca Danks | [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> | 020 7188 3639 https://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/research/divisions/wh/index.aspx http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lsm/research/divisions/wh/groups/maternalhealth/index.aspx https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/jane.sandall.html Associate Director NIHR CLAHRC South London (capacity building) Lead maternity and women’s health theme http://www.clahrc-southlondon.nihr.ac.uk/ Lead capacity building King’s Improvement Science http://www.kingsimprovementscience.org/ Latest publications: Easter A, Howard LM, Sandall J. Mental health near miss indicators in maternity care: a missed opportunity? A Commentary. BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology. 2017 Jun 30. Mackintosh N, Rance S, Carter W, Sandall J. Working for patient safety: a qualitative study of women’s help-seeking during acute perinatal events. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. 2017 Jul 17;17(1):232. de Oliveira Salgado H, Souza JP, Sandall J, Diniz CS. Patient Safety in Maternity Care in Brazil: The Maternity Safety Thermometer as a Tool to Improve the Quality of Care. Revista Brasileira de Ginecologia e Obstetrícia/RBGO Gynecology and Obstetrics. 2017 May 5. [logo] [athena swan silver] From: Qausain Tammer [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: 18 October 2017 13:45 To: TCC NIHR <[log in to unmask]> Subject: LAUNCHED: New HEE/NIHR ICA Programme Pre-Doctoral Level Scheme Dear Advocates, New HEE/NIHR ICA Programme Pre-Doctoral Level Scheme Health Education England (HEE) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) are pleased to announce a new pre-doctoral level training scheme to support aspiring non-medical clinical academics. The HEE/NIHR Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship (PCAF) Scheme, which will replace the ICA Masters Studentships, will support award holders to split their time equally between clinical service and academic training over a 2 year period. During this period, Fellows will undertake formal and informal Master’s level clinical research training designed around their unique training needs and develop an application for PhD funding, with support from a named supervisor and mentor. It is anticipated that the Round 1 ICA PCAF Scheme competition will launch in February 2018. Further information is available from our website: HEE-ICA/Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowships If you have any queries please contact the ICA team: Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> Tel: 0113 346 6268 Kind regards NIHR Trainees Coordinating Centre Qausain Tammer Senior Programme Officer (Infrastructure) | NIHR Trainees Coordinating Centre (TCC) [NIHR logo] ________________________________ t. 0113 346 6248 | e. [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> a. Leeds Innovation Centre 103 Clarendon Road Leeds LS2 9DF Confidential information may be contained in this message. If you are not the intended recipient, any reading, printing, storage, disclosure, copying or any other action taken in respect of this e-mail is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by using the reply function and then permanently delete what you have received. Confidential information may be contained in this message.If you are not the intended recipient, any reading, printing, storage, disclosure, copying or any other action taken in respect of this e-mail is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by using the reply function and then permanently delete what you have received.