Allied health professionals educational training bursaries
Educational training bursaries aim to promote awareness and understanding of arthritis and related musculoskeletal diseases among allied health professionals through research, practical experience, presentation of research, and formal education in rheumatology.
These bursaries are offered to allied health professionals who are, or are eligible to be, registered with the Health Professions Council (HPC), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or other appropriate regulatory body and have at least 3 years' relevant post-registration work experience and at least one year's experience in rheumatology/arthritis.
Funding is offered towards the costs of attending either:
1. A short training/diploma course or modules from a taught MSc programme in the UK with a clear rheumatological content. Examples are the Keele ASPiRE course and Brighton GCRP course. The maximum amount available is £1,000 and application deadlines for this funding are twice a year in the middle of January and July.
OR
2. A full MSc course or taught/professional doctorate in the UK with a clear rheumatological content. The maximum amount available is £5,000 and there is one deadline a year on 7th January. Applications will be assessed by the appropriate arc committee and candidates may be shortlisted for interview (in March).
Please see the Educational grants section before completing an application form to ensure you meet the eligibility criteria, or contact the Research and Education Department (01246 541115) for further information.
Application Form - Instructions
(before completing the form, applicants must read the instructions in Essential information for applicants)
The application form is in four sections which must be submitted electronically as instructed below. We also require a number of hard copies to be posted to us and these must be identical to the electronic version.
Section 1
This section requires a description of the course/ module/programme of study and financial costings. You should ensure that you have downloaded the correct form for the grant category for which you require funding.
Section 2
This section requires details of personal qualifications and reason for the study proposal.
Section 3
CV form – this section applies to all grant categories and must be completed for each person named on the application, excluding Collaborators (with the exception of PhD Studentships).
NB:
Please ensure that each completed CV form is saved as a SEPARATE document, ie SURNAME 1, SURNAME 2, SURNAME 3 etc.
Section 4
Signature pages and contact details – this section applies to all grant categories.
Please name each section as SEC1, SEC2 and SEC4 (apart from Section 3 - see Note 2). WE WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY DOCUMENT FORMAT OTHER THAN WORD.
Also ensure that you adhere to the page layout when completing the form and insert information into the relevant boxes where a table template has been provided. To view template, select “show gridlines” in Word Table menu.
Emailing Your Application
You are requested to EMAIL the completed form, (Sections 1, 2 and 3 but not 4) to applications@arc.org.uk by midnight on the deadline date. If an application is not received electronically by this deadline, it will not be processed and there will be no exceptions to this rule.
Please do not worry if some attachments are not available electronically, eg letter of acceptance from course organiser, as these can be attached to the hard copies which will be posted to us (see below).
Posting Your Application
You should also send us the original single-sided application form unstapled (in single spaced typescript, font type Arial 11 pt), including Section 4 containing the relevant signatures.
All four sections should be collated to make a complete application form and photocopied (4 copies, double-sided). Each photocopied form must be securely stapled in the left-hand corner and not heat-sealed or bound. Please post to:
Head of Research & Education Funding
ARTHRITIS RESEARCH CAMPAIGN
Copeman House
St Mary's Court
Chesterfield
S41 7TD
To be POSTMARKED on or before the relevant deadline - please see Application Deadlines. If sent on the deadline date, postage must be FIRST CLASS or a COURIER used.
All attachments should also be duplicated (double-sided) and securely stapled to the back of each copy of the application form. We regret that we are unable to duplicate or insert additional information if this has been missed out.
Please ensure you have completed all four sections of the form, and that all documents relating to your application are attached to the form (see “Attachments to Application Form” on Signature Page 1 of SECTION 4).
If you have any queries, please contact the Research and Education Department on 01246 541115.
