Open Call for Murray Jackson Clinical Fellowship (New Zealand)

The Fellowship may be combined with advanced clinical training in cancer medicine, in which case the research component should normally be at least 50%. The Fellowship may also be spread over up to four years to allow for a dedicated research component alongside a clinical career. The expectation is that at the end of the Fellowship the successful applicant will become an established clinician researcher practicing in New Zealand and thus contribute to improved patient outcomes in New Zealand.

Funding Information

• The Fellowship provides a salary for up to one year and up to $3,000 return travel costs to support an overseas or hybrid model.
• The Trust will usually award only one Murray Jackson Clinical Fellowship per year, and reserves the right to not award the Fellowship.

Eligible Costs

• Salary costs for Murray Jackson Clinical Fellows are intended to allow the individual to develop a sustainable research component to their career. Salary costs can either support the time needed to undertake research towards the requirements of a higher degree, or support clinicians who have completed a higher research degree by funding dedicated non-clinical time for research. Salary costs are intended to support the conduct of research dependent on external sources (so-called soft money). Under no circumstances will salary buy-out for permanent staff be an allowable expense.
• The Trust does not fund overheads including: property costs; depreciation; utility charges such as lighting, heating and water; telephone line charges; library; office stationery and accessories; or laboratory “bench fees”.
• Only actual costs for ACC and superannuation should be included in salary associated costs. Institutional increments in salary will be covered by the Trust over the course of the fellowship.
• An additional travel costs may be included in the budget where the research will be conducted overseas.
• Attendance at conferences and training courses cannot be included. A separate funding application (Professional Development Award) should be submitted to request support.

Eligibility Criteria

• Applicants should be New Zealand citizens or permanent residents who have completed a relevant specialist College training programme. The Murray Jackson Fellowship will be available in (but not limited to) the fields of: surgical disciplines relevant to oncology, haematology, radiation oncology, medical oncology, palliative care, cancer genetics, radiology, anatomical pathology, psychiatry or public health.
• Applicants may have already completed a higher research degree and be seeking to establish themselves with an ongoing research component to their clinical career. Alternatively, applicants may be in the final stages of their specialist college training and seeking salary support to enable them to complete a higher research degree or further research training.
• In any funding round, an applicant can be named on no more than two applications, with a maximum of one as the Principal Investigator. A Murray Jackson Clinical Fellowship application counts towards this total and the applicant is considered a Principal Investigator for the purposes of the application cap.
• The Trust expects that an individual will only be a Principal Investigator on one active Project Grant at a time. The individual may also be a named investigator on one or more active grants at the same time.
• Only one resubmission of a previously unsuccessful Project Grant or Fellowship application is permitted. It is an expectation that the applicant addresses all concerns raised by the referees and assessment committee in their re-submission. The stable composition of the Trust’s Assessment Committee helps to eliminate year-to-year variations in Committee perspectives. An applicant who has been unsuccessful twice may submit further proposals in their chosen field of research, but it will need to be based on a new or substantially revised hypothesis.

Application Requirements

• Applicants should summarise their CV describing details of university scholarships and prizes, publication, positions held and research experience relevant to the application. Applicants have the option to include a more extensive CV.
• Attachments may include details of other sources of partial funding, ethics approval letters, sub-contracts with other institutions, and letters of support for collaborations.
• All applications must be submitted through the grants portal and late submissions cannot be accepted under any circumstances.

For more information, visit Cancer Research Trust.