Junior Fellowships
Post-graduate student members may apply for BSPP Junior Fellowships for full or partial support of working visits of at least one month to laboratories other than their own.
There are two deadlines each year for submission of applications; The 30th April and 31st October.
Decisions will be communicated within 6 weeks of the deadlines, and funding must then be used within 6 months of the award.
The aim is to encourage collaboration and interdisciplinary research, to enable students to acquire new techniques, and to make new contacts. Visits to laboratories in other countries are particularly encouraged. Any applicant must have been a member of BSPP for at least one year or have a three year membership and be a post-graduate student (registered for a PhD or MRes/MSc by research) at the time the fellowship award is taken up. No member may be awarded a BSPP Junior Fellowship more than once. Exceptionally in 2026, student members who joined in 2025 with a one-year membership are also eligible to apply.
BSPP Junior Fellowships are intended to support (a) travel, accommodation and other personal costs that are not covered by the student’s stipend and (b) a contribution to any consumables which are essential for the applicant’s proposed research in the host laboratory.
The maximum value of an award is generally £3000 although members are encouraged to be economical.
Applications can not be submitted for both the travel fund and for a fellowship in the same year. Where there are several applications of equal merit, the board reserves the right to prioritise applicants who have not previously received BSPP funding.
Please contact Info@bspp.org.uk with enquires relating to the Junior Fellowship fund.
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