Funding for researchers who wish to develop their research in health technologies by developing new skills and collaborations with other disciplines and end users.
The principal aim of this scheme is to provide researchers with an opportunity to spend time in a different research or user environment to better understand unmet health needs, how engineering and physical sciences research can contribute to developing new health technologies approaches and solutions, and how this research can be translated. Collaborations with multiple host organisations (the organisation which will provide you with the different research or user environment) are allowed, including:
- an academic organisation in the UK or abroad
- another department at your home organisation
- an industry, clinical or public sector organisation in the UK or abroad
This award could be used to:
- gain skills and knowledge to open up a new cross-disciplinary research area or answer a specific cross-disciplinary research question
- develop new or strengthen existing collaborations, or both, and work together on a pilot research project
- learn a new technique, tool or method that you can apply to your own research
The award should result in delivery of a pilot project(s), using the preliminary data generated via this funding opportunity.
ELIGIBILITY
Standard EPSRC eligibility rules apply.
Novel engineering and physical sciences (EPS) research contributing to the delivery of the health technologies strategy (see below) must comprise a proportion of the placement.
This funding opportunity is open for teams as well as individuals to apply.
VALUE AND DURATION
Up to £500,000 is available for up to three years, encompassing various patterns of work. For example, you could:
- travel to a different research institution or company in the UK or go abroad full time
- work in another university department at your home institution for one day a week over the proposed period of time
- re-skill or train in a relevant area over the proposed period of time
KEY DATES
Webinar: 2 July 2025 (10am)
Mandatory ‘Intent to Submit’ deadline: 18 September 2025
Full application deadline: 2 October 2025
More information, including details of grants awarded in the previous round, can be found on the opportunity webpage.