Eligibility for NIHR Academy membership

The following are NIHR Academy Members:

• Senior Investigators
• NIHR research training award holders:
  • Research Professors
  • Fellowships
  • Academic Clinical Fellowship holders (ACFs) and Clinical Lectureship holders (CLs), including NIHR badged locally funded
  • Integrated Clinical and Practitioner Academic (ICA) Programme Fellows and CLs/SCLs
  • NIHR Academy Members based across NIHR Infrastructure, Schools and Global Health Research
• Research Professors - associated support posts
• Advanced Fellowship holders - associated support posts

Are you based within NIHR Infrastructure or capacity building structures?

See the eligibility section on our opportunities for Academy Members in NIHR Infrastructure or capacity building structures page

The following are NIHR Academy Members:

• NIHR Academy Dean and Associate Deans
• NIHR Infrastructure and School Academic Career Development leads (BRCs, ARCs, PSTRCs, HPRUs, SPCR, SPHR, SSCR)
• IAT Leads
• Incubator Steering Group members
• Global Health Research training leads across Global Health Research programmes
• NIHR Funding Selection Committee members
• Mentors on NIHR Mentorship schemes including Senior Investigators and Research Professors
• NIHR Senior Research Nurse and Midwife Research Leaders

Those with on a research career path and at the interface with NIHR academic career path are NIHR Academy associates. They include:

• ACFs and CLs - locally funded which are not NIHR badged
• CRN Research Fellows
• individuals based in Infrastructure and Schools <25% funded.
• individuals based in ‘non-capacity building’ parts of Infrastructure (MICs, CRFs)
• research delivery staff (CRN and Infrastructure)
• Medical/Dental Trainees undertaking NIHR-funded or supported research
• PIs + Co-Investigators on any NIHR funded grant – supported posts doing PhDs

Those with an NIHR role in supporting research training and research capacity development are NIHR Academy associates. They include:

• NIHR CRN Specialty Leads (National and Local)
• CRN AHP Research Champions
• not a member but ‘involved’ e.g. supervisors of current NIHR Academy members
• RDS Advisors