Academic Fellowships
These are administered by the Scottish School of Primary Care on behalf of the five Scottish Medical School Primary Care departments and NHS Education for Scotland.
The application period for NES Academic Fellowships in General Practice for 2026 - 2027 is now closed. The closing date was 20th April 2026.
A shortlist for interview will now be prepared, and successful candidates will be contacted shortly to arrange an interview.
If you are interested in applying for these posts next year (to start August 2027), please contact SSPC and we will add your details to a contact list. The Fellowships are usually advertised end March/beginning April.
Please see the SSPC website for more information
https://sspc.ac.uk/research_trainingemployment_opportunities/
or contact SSPC directly info@sspc.ac.uk.
Academic Fellowships provide opportunities to prepare a PhD or post-doctoral fellowship grant application.
They are suitable for.
- Early career applicants who are about to complete or who have completed Specialist Training for General Practice within the preceding 3 years WTE (in other words, we will take account of career breaks and part-time working when calculating this). Early career applicants can request academic time up to 0.8 FTE.
- Post-doctoral applicants intending to apply for a post-doctoral research fellowship. Post-doctoral applicants should be GPs who are about to complete or are within one year of completion of a higher degree (PhD or MD). For these applicants, time since CCT is not applied. Post-doctoral applicants can only request academic time of 0.2FTE.
Medical School Primary Care Departments
- https://www.abdn.ac.uk/iahs/research/profiles/p.murchie#research
- https://www.dundee.ac.uk/people/kevin-mcconville
- https://www.ed.ac.uk/usher/primary-care-multimorbidity/clinical-academic-pathways-for-gps
- https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/research/generalpractice/
- https://medicine.st-andrews.ac.uk/pbs/research/#Primary_care
This page was last updated on: 22.04.2026 at 14.41