Applications are open!
and will close 3pm Wednesday 29 January 2025.
Please make your applications through Flexi-grant. See our making an application advice pages for more details.
We're calling for grant applications under the following themes:
Improving respiratory health
This is a general call for any respiratory topic or condition.
You can apply for the following career development awards:
- Healthcare Professional PhD Bursaries: up to £30,000 for up to 3 years (£10,000 per year) to help with living costs
- Clinical and non-clinical Junior Fellowships: up to £100,000 over 18 months
Utilising health data research to save lives
Utilising health data is crucial to understanding how lung conditions develop and progress, as well as their immense economic and health burden. We’re interested in projects that will utilise existing data to address unmet needs faced by people living with lung conditions.
You can apply for:
- Non-clinical PhD Studentships: up to £125,000 over 3 years
- Clinical PhD Studentships up to £180,000 over 3 years
- Clinical and non-clinical Junior Fellowships: up to £100,000 over 18 months
Applicants must use a legitimate, recognised existing source or sources of data. Projects must involve collaboration between data scientists and respiratory researchers (which can include clinicians). It is strongly recommended that applicants include elements of ‘reusable research’ - detailing how your research will support future research and/or be used by others.
Make use of our data in your research
Asthma + Lung UK have several data sets available for use in your project. Find out more by emailing the research and innovation team at research@asthmaandlung.org.uk.
Information about award types available in this funding round
Healthcare professionals must have secured a PhD in any respiratory subject which has already begun or will begin by June 2025. You do not have to have experience, or currently be working with, people living with lung conditions, but your PhD must be in a respiratory field. Find out more about eligibility and how this funding works on our webpage for healthcare professional bursaries.
Junior Fellowships support post-doctoral researchers to continue research after their PhD and allow them to generate further preliminary data, continue data analysis and/or finalise/secure publications (e.g. from PhD data). Applicants must not have been the Principal Investigator/ Grant holder of a grant award in excess of £100,000 previously.
PhD Studentship applications must be made by a prospective PhD student as the principal applicant, with established investigator(s) named as co-applicants who will act as primary and secondary supervisors for the named student. Supervision should be provided from a respiratory clinician and a senior data scientist who has an interest in health. The PhD project and application should be developed alongside supervisors. The PhD student can have a respiratory (clinical or non-clinical) and/or data science background.
For more information please see our Awards we fund page.
Application help is available
Don't leave it to the last minute. Email the research and innovation team for assistance with your application at research@asthmaandlung.org.uk.