Medical Humanities in Practice Research Fellowship Scheme

The Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities (DRP-MH) Practice Fellowship grant aims to support professionals and researchers from Health, Social Care or Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sectors to develop research within the Medical Humanities.

Novelty within this field is a key priority; this scheme will support people to research new areas, develop new research questions and methods, develop new understandings of experiences of health and wellbeing and/or enable seldom heard groups to shape health and mental health research.

The year-long, funded Fellowship will enable you to develop or deliver a research project through a medical humanities lens on a critical issue encountered in your work. This might include engagement activities to explore a topic or develop a research idea.

Applications are particularly encouraged for research projects which set out to explore health challenges arising at the intersection of mental health and health inequalities, and aim to develop new insights or approaches to tackling these health challenges, particularly in connection to underrepresented groups, race and health, neurodiversity or lived experience research.

The Fellowships will run from June 2026 to June 2027. During the 1 year Fellowship, you will:

• Receive a grant of up to £12,000 to support your research plan
• Become a member of the Discovery Research Platform, with access to an exciting range of events, activities and networks
• Enjoy one-on-one support to help you develop your research ideas
• Attend six cohort workshops throughout the year (two in-person, four online) where you’ll learn from medical humanities examples, share learning, build links and showcase your work

Applications from, or focused on, underrepresented or less heard from groups within health research are strongly encouraged.

The NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) Wakefield is part of the NIHR and hosted by Wakefield Council.