RSTMH Early Career Grants Programme – Guidance 2024

The RSTMH Early Career Grants Programme provides more than 200 grants every year to those early in their careers to carry out their first piece of research into tropical medicine or global health.

This page will be updated with application guidance.

Application guidance

Many early career researchers ask us what makes a good RSTMH Early Career Grants application, and how they should tackle certain parts of the application form, particularly as they are applying for a grant for the first time. 

To help with this we will be uploading examples of grant award-winning application forms. We have included a few examples of a high-quality project statement, which is the part of the form where you lay out your background, aims, methods and expected outcomes for the project. Find these below. 

We have also compiled an example of what a good Early Career Grant budget should look like. Find this below

Early Career Grants Programme 2024: Example of a good project budget (GBP £)

Guidance webinar

On 20 February 2024, we hosted a guidance webinar for the 2024 RSTMH Early Career Grants Programme. You can watch a recording of the guidance webinar below. You can find a PDF version of the presentation slides below. 

RSTMH 2024 Early Career Grants Programme – guidance webinar for applicants

2023 Early Career Grants: Grants awarded

Find a breakdown of the applications to the 2023 Early Career Grants programme. Read the blog here. 

Find a list of the grants awarded in the 2023 Early Career Grants programme here.

Member-only guidance

We will be running a series of detailed training sessions for RSTMH members and Fellows over the next month, in addition to the main guidance webinar.

Find out more abour RSTMH membership here. 

Advice from previous awardees

We asked some of our former RSTMH Early Career Grant awardees what advice they would give to anyone thinking of applying for a grant this year. We have compiled their responses here.

FAQs

Please find a link to our Frequently Asked Questions here.