BGS Scotland Specialist Registrar
Start-up Grants

General Information

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The British Geriatrics Society (Scotland) is offering a limited number of grants of up to £2000 to support research in geriatric medicine in Scotland. The Specialist Registrar Research Start-Up Grant is intended to provide immediate financial assistance to support research projects which may not yet be developed sufficiently to warrant support from research councils and aims to give help of a kind to young doctors which is not already available from other sources.

The scheme will provide grants to those training in geriatric medicine to follow through ideas at relatively short notice, to enable advantage to be taken of unique or rare opportunities or to provide short-term assistance to speculative and innovative research that may be at an early stage. The scheme is not intended to provide funding for undergraduate or postgraduate teaching, to provide rescue funding for the continuation of established projects, to supplement existing grants or to support any activity not directly related to research.

Other grants are available from BGS UK (see BGS main website).