The Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Academic Excellence Awards are designed to help exceptional pharmacists and pharmacy graduates who are interested in pursuing a career in academic pharmacy to undertake PhD training in UK schools of pharmacy with fully accredited MPharm programmes.
Academic Excellence Awards add to the overall pool of money available to train the next generation of academics who will teach and conduct research in and with the schools of pharmacy.
The scheme is administered in a similar way to the doctoral training account mechanism of funding used by many of the research councils, ie, schools will compete in the first instance to host an award. The successful schools will then be responsible for selecting, administering and supervising students throughout their period of training. This competitive approach will be based on the quality of the training and support provided (including supervision) and the project area being proposed.
This approach is designed to:
- assist the schools of pharmacy to attract the best pharmacists and pharmacy graduates into postgraduate research and training;
- allow the schools maximum discretion in managing and organising the doctoral training but within clear financial and accountability arrangements;
- provide a flexible and transparent funding stream which rewards high quality training provision as well as innovative science.
Successful schools must demonstrate that:
- adequate facilities and resources are made available for the research training;
- a safe working environment is provided, meeting the requirements of health and safety legislation, and any other legislation concerning the health, welfare and rights of students, including the Data Protection Act;
- projects lie broadly within the area of pharmacy and medicines. Current areas of particular interest include:
- pharmaceutics and drug delivery;
- medicinal chemistry;
- clinical pharmacy;
- pharmacy practice, in particular, impact of work pressures/stress on quality and safety and evaluation of innovations in practice, for example prescribing;
- research training programmes contain good training in generic and transferable skills;
- the award contributes to the development of academic capacity in pharmacy.
To view the list of previous winners of the award click on the link below.
Previous award winners under the present scheme
Dates for the next round of awards will be posted on the website in January 2009 for students starting in 2010.
For further information please contact the Research division
Tel: 020 7572 2278
e-mail: practiceresearch@rpsgb.org.uk
