Information for trainees
Do you want to know how to set up and manage a trainee network?
If you are interested in setting up your own trainee network, Dr Rebecca Foster-Jones from the STP Mature Trainees, Parents and Carers (MTPC) Network will be delivering the following webinar:
Setting up a trainee network
Friday 24 January 2025 – 10am to 11am
View further details and register for this webinar (expired link)
Information for trainees and supervisors
Become an assessor for the new STP Final Year Assessment
Assessors are responsible for making an independent judgment of a trainee’s performance in the STP Final Year Assessment. We’ll provide you with training and everything you need for the assessment itself. No other prep required. If you’ve been an assessor for previous STP assessments or you would like to be involved in the STP Final Year Assessment for the first time, let us know you’d like to be an assessor.
Find out more about the assessor roles.
Express an interest in becoming as assessor
Changes to NIHR research award schemes
If you are considering an emphasis on research in your career after the HSST, you will need to know about upcoming changes to research career development opportunities at the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR).
What’s changing?
Since 2018, the NIHR Academy has been working to break down barriers to career progression in research. However, their portfolio of opportunities have grown over the years and become complex. To make these opportunities more accessible and easy to understand, they are simplifying their fellowship offering to a single award at predoctoral, doctoral and postdoctoral levels.
By simplifying their awards, but keeping their background-specific funding committees, they aim to improve the experience for applicants and maintain the level of funding and background-specific support that is currently available.
Important upcoming timelines
The Predoctoral Award will be the first to launch in January 2025. Doctoral and Postdoctoral awards will run twice a year.
Predoctoral award
Application window – 29 January to 20 March 2025
Postdoctoral award
Application window – 26 March to 21 May 2025
Doctoral award
Application window – 9 April to 10 June 2025
Further details about the changes are available on their website or by emailing academy-awards@nihr.ac.uk. All other NIHR research career development opportunities will be unaffected by these changes and will continue as normal.
If you have colleagues who are also interested in moving into this area, please signpost them to this information.
Visit the National Institute for Health and Care Research website
HSST Sharing Good Practice webinar series
We are pleased to announce the following Sharing Good Practice webinars, featuring talks delivered by current HSST trainees.
Sharing Good Practice – Skills and behaviours of a Consultant Clinical Scientist
Tuesday 21 January 2025 – 11am to 12pm
View further details and register for this webinar (expired link)
Sharing Good Practice – Skills and behaviours of a Consultant Clinical Scientist
Wednesday 5 February 2025 – 10:30am to 11:30am
View further details and register for this webinar
Sharing Good Practice: Skills and behaviours of a Consultant Clinical Scientist
Monday 10 February 2025 – 2pm to 3pm
View further details and register for this webinar
Sharing Good Practice: Skills and behaviours of a Clinical Scientist
Wednesday 12 February 2025 – 2pm to 3pm
View further details and register for this webinar
We are currently finalising other HSST Sharing Good Practice webinars, which will take place in March 2025. The webinars will be recorded and made available on the School website.
View our forthcoming Sharing Good Practice webinars
Are you interested in sharing your practice?
If you or your network have developed practice that you feel could be valuable to share with your peers, please express an interest in sharing your practice via the form linked to below.
Express an interest in sharing your practice
Missed a previous edition of the HSST Monthly Memo?
We’ve published copies of the Monthly Memo for HSST trainees and training officers on our website.
Click here to view previous editions of the HSST Monthly Memo.