SSCR Career Development Awards (Round 3)
NIHR School for Social Care Research (SSCR)
Training and development awards for social care researchers and practitioners to build the skills needed to reach the next step of their research careers. Run by the NIHR School for Social Care Research, a research and capacity-building partnership of English universities with its directorate at the University of York, focused on adult social care. One of the very few UK awards aimed squarely at practitioner-researchers rather than established academics.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (total award)No award value for Round 3 is published on the funding opportunities page, so amount fields are null. Do not assume the figures quoted for earlier rounds still apply - check the Round 3 call documentation.
- Timing
- Periodic callsPeriodic calls · SepPublished deadline: 2026-09-24 — passed. Kept for reference; check the funder's page for the next cycle.The page states the third round of SSCR Career Development Awards is now live with a deadline of Thursday 24 September 2026. Rounds are periodic rather than strictly annual.
- Who can apply
- Early-career faculty, Postdoctoral, Practitioner, Doctoral candidate
- Eligibility
- Open to social care researchers and practitioners - practitioner applicants are explicitly in scope, not only university-based academics - working within the School's adult social care remit in England. Award-specific eligibility and host arrangements are set out in the round documentation; enquiries go to the SSCR directorate at York. This is an individual development award, not a grant a community organisation applies for as an institution.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- adult social care · research career development · practitioner research · capacity building
- Apply at
- https://www.sscr.nihr.ac.uk/funding-opportunities/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. Funder link last confirmed to resolve on 2026-09-25.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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