Research Scholarships

One of CECo's aims is to attract and retain high quality clinical researchers to supportive and palliative care research by providing scholarships and mentoring across the clinical career spectrum.

*** Stop Press *** Applications for the 2009 Scholarship Funding Scheme are now welcome!
This year, scholarships are open to clinicians from nursing, allied health professionals, other non-medical professions and medical practitioners.
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Scholarship 2009.

Scholarships

CECo has now awarded a total of £40,000 in four scholarships of £10,000 to support clinicians to work with experienced researchers to develop their skills and submit either an application for a research grant or PhD fellowship, or a substantial research-related paper.

The CECo Scholarship aims to help health care professionals develop their research ideas and submit an application for a research grant of PhD studentship award. With the support and guidance of experience CECo researchers, I plan to write a research proposal and submit an applications for a PhD training studentship. The Scholarship is for three months and I am being mentored and supervised by Prof. Kinta Beaver at the University of Manchester.
Anne-Marie Lydon, Macmillan Research Associate, School of Nursing Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester, 2006-7 CECo Scholar

By attending CECo meetings and courses I have also been able to meet with other researchers and find out more about what other research is being conducted and other areas of interest. Currently I have been working towards writing a proposal for a PhD which we are hopeful about obtaining funding for which again is something that I would not have had the opportunity to do without the Scholarship.
Lorna Higgins, Primary Care Graduate Mental Health Worker, Wirral Primary Care Trust, 2006-7 CECo Scholar

This year’s Scholars are Michelle Wood, Senior Art Therapist at the Marie Curie Hospice, Hampstead and Janet Rigby, Senior Staff Nurse at the East Cheshire Hospice. Michelle is developing a proposal for a study of men’s experience of art therapy; Janet is conducting a critical review of the literature on hospice environments for older people. They join CECo’s first two Scholars who are completing work on PhD proposals on the psychological needs of cancer patients and on follow-up services for women with ovarian cancer.

I am a Staff Nurse at the East Cheshire Hospice in Macclesfield, and I was delighted to be awarded a CECo Scholarship in March 2008. The Scholarship funding has benefited me in two ways: it has enabled me to attend the International Observatory on End of Life Care Research Summer School at Lancaster University, and has allowed me to reduce my hours of work so that I can conduct a research project over the next nine months. The International Research Summer School was a great experience for me, as I was able to meet a group of health care professionals from many countries, and to benefit from very high quality teaching on research methods. In the second week, each student was able to receive support and tuition on developing their own research project, and it was very helpful to have the expert support of staff from the International Observatory on End of Life Care. My own research project is a review of the literature on the specific environmental needs of older hospice patients. I have been privileged to have the support and supervision of Professor Sheila Payne and Dr Katherine Froggatt at Lancaster University. I look forward to sharing my findings when they become available!
Janet Rigby, CECo Scholar 2007-8