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2025 UKAgeNet Discipline Hopping Awards (biological/biomedical and social sciences | UK)

The Dunhill Medical Trust

Are you a PhD student who works in the field of ageing or age related diseases? Would you like to enhance your PhD with an interdisciplinary research project in a new discipline and at a new Institution?

If you are, we would be very interested in hearing from you. This funding call could be for you!

Four bursaries are available for 2025 of up to £5000 each to support PhD students in the field of ageing and age-related diseases to train in a new discipline and promote interdisciplinarity across researchers based in institutions who are part of UKAgeNet (see list of Institutions here) or are members of the Dunhill Medical Trust Academy (you can become an Academy member by registering here).

The proposed project can be an extension of the PhD programme of work, a new interdisciplinary angle or a new project. Involvement of the supervisors is an advantage, but not essential, provided there is a letter of support.

Discipline hopping is defined as traversing the Biological/Biomedical to the Social Sciences, or vice versa, or hopping from academia to policy making institutions (see eligibility criteria below).

Four bursaries are available for 2025 of up to £5000 each.

Funding covers only directly incurred costs and may be requested to support the following types of activities:

Extension to PhD student salary for the specific purpose of completing the project / activity output (expected to be 2-3 months);
Travel and subsistence costs for the discipline hopper
Consumables

UKAgeNet will help you access the funding

15 January 2025 – Call opens
30 April 2025 – Call closes
15th May 2025 – Outcome to applicants
1st June 2025 – Exchanges can begin
1st April 2026 – Exchanges must end
15th April 2026 – Report to share outcomes

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Eligibility Requirements

A PhD student based in a founding member institution of UKAgeNet. We have approx 70 Institutions across the country that are members of UKAgeNet. To check if your institute is a member of UKAgeNet and to see which other institutes are UKAgeNet members (and therefore you could potentially ‘hop’ to!) have a look at this list.

The project / activity must clearly align with one of the broad areas covered by remits of the UKAgeNet network and the Dunhill Medical Trust Academy, which loosely correspond to:
- Understanding of ageing
- Understanding of treatment of age-related disease
- Delivering and developing evidence-led services, products and interventions that improve our experience of later life
The project / activity must be of clear benefit to the future career development of the PhD student discipline hopper.
The project / activity must demonstrate engagement from members of the teams at more senior levels from the home and host institutions and needs to be signed off by the student’s supervisor
Discipline hopping is defined for this call as a hop from either;
- a) the biological/biomedical to the social sciences, and vice versa
- b) sector to sector (i.e. academia to policy making)

Placements must be completed by 1st April 2026.

Here are some examples of the type of projects that could be considered. If after reading through the examples you are still unsure if your project / activity meets the criteria or have any questions, Professor Ilaria Bellantuono, is offering ‘Open Door’ sessions. This is an opportunity to discuss your Discipline Hopping project and asses if it meets the criteria for the Discipline Hopping Awards.

These are all virtual sessions via Google Meet with pre-bookable 10 minute slots.

Sponsor Details

Sponsor Institute/Organizations: The Dunhill Medical Trust

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Address: Thanet House 231–232 Strand London WC2R 1DA 020 7871 5404 admin@dunhillmedical.org.uk

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