* This competition is now closed.
NIHR Senior Investigators are NIHR’s most prominent and prestigious researchers. Senior Investigators are making the most outstanding contribution to research essential for decision-making in health and in social care, and are fundamental to NIHR Faculty.
NIHR Senior Investigators receive an annual award of £15,000 as a personal discretionary fund. Their appointments:
- are a source of prestige, providing an incentive for Investigators to achieve this status
- acknowledge senior researchers and their work, enhancing esteem for applied clinical research
- reward internationally prominent researchers carrying out clinical and applied people based health and social care research
- provide a focus for the NIHR Faculty
- provide visible leadership in NIHR by forming the NIHR College
- are a key source of advice to the Director of the NIHR
In the previous four annual rounds of open competition
202 successful applicants have been selected by an international panel of judges, currently chaired by Professor Sir Alex Markham.
Further background information is available at:
Important
dates
Submission Deadline: Friday, 05 August 2011, 5:00pm * This competition is now closed.
Declarations and Signatures deadline: Friday, 12 August 2011, 5:00pm
Outcome notification: March 2012