The Academic Careers Office & Translational Research Office are excited to announce our next ACCELERATE initiative; Team Challenge. This eight-week hands on training programme will see you apply knowledge and skills to develop a proposal to solve a real-life translational research challenge of your choosing in an interdisciplinary team. For example, this can be a commercial idea for a healthcare need (e.g., a new product or service) or a way of improving an existing service in a non-commercial setting (e.g., making a hospital process work more efficiently, healthcare data sharing etc.) - anything that proposes to improve healthcare.
At the end of the programme there will be a chance to bid for up £10,000 or non-financial support to take your team's proposal forward.
Target audience: This eight-week team challenge is aimed at all healthcare researchers across UCL and the three UCL BRCs, from any discipline and background, from first year post-doctoral fellows upwards. This includes those starting to develop their own research group. Applicants will apply as individuals and then teams will form in the first few weeks of the programme.
When and where: The programme will run online on a Tuesday afternoon, 12:30pm – 3:00pm from 25th May for eight consecutive weeks. In applying to be considered for this exciting new programme we would expect you to be able to make all the sessions. There will be minimal pre session work to complete in your own time to maximise the group engagement during the sessions.
Apply: To gain a place on this highly sought-after programme please complete the application form by 14 April 2021 (23:59 BST). Shortlisted applicants will be informed by 23 April 2021.For any questions please contact the ACCELERATE Manager, Kim Gurwitz k.gurwitz@ucl.ac.uk
