NIHR North London RISE Internship

Eligibility

1. Current registration with an approved Regulatory Body. The internships are open to registrants with Academy for Heathcare Science, General Chiropractic Council, General Dental Council, General Medical Council, General Optical Council, General Osteopathic Council, General Pharmaceutical Council, Health and Care Professions Council, Nursing and Midwifery Council, Social Work England or UK Public Health Register.
2. Be employed in the North London Region. Applicants must hold a contract of employment with a provider of health and/or social care services at the point of application (fixed term contracts are acceptable; however, honorary contracts or bank work cannot be accepted). You must be spending at least 50% of your current role delivering health and/or social care services.
3. Employing organisation must provide at least 50% of its services free at the point of delivery. This may include an NHS organisation, Private Practice and/or one of the North London Integrated Care Systems.
4. Support from line managers/employers to undertake the internship. Please ensure early conversations with line managers as they will need to confirm they are prepared to release you from your duties for the allocated time, before you apply.

Note: Doctors and dentists cannot be funded by this scheme as they have other opportunities available for research development (such as the NIHR Integrated Academic Training programmes).

If you are not yet working for a service provider (but are entering the profession in the next year) or are at an early career stage, you may wish to consider applying for the NIHR INSIGHT opportunity.

We welcome applications from underserved communities, including people from professional backgrounds associated with low research outputs to date, working in areas with higher levels of deprivation, people from ethnic minorities, people with caring responsibilities and people with disabilities.

What's Funded?

You can choose the tier that best matches your learning goals and interests. Funding covers salary backfill as well as core research training and development. This will broadly equate to one day per week for:

• Explore: 3 months
• Engage: 6 months
• Evolve: 12 months

Tier	Core programme	Additional funding:
Explore	Research externship at QMUL – 6 sessions   +Taster placement with a research team	Up to £3,000 for salary backfill to support attendance   No additional funding for training
Engage	Introduction to research (short course, Barts Health) – 8 sessions   + Embedded placement and work-based project	Up to £6,000 to be used towards salary backfill, additional training and development needs
Evolve	-Fundamentals Health Research (short course, QMUL) OR -HRM020 - Foundations in research methods and data analysis  (City St George’s, University of London)   + Bespoke mentoring and supervision	Up to £12,000 to be used for salary backfill, additional training and development needs
Notes: Protect your ringfenced time to get the most out of the funding opportunity. Additional research training or other activities may reduce the amount available to support salary backfill. Suggestions on how the funding can be used are presented in the guidance document.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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How to Apply

You will need to complete the online application form, this will include an outline of your spending plan for the award.

Submit by midnight on 9th October 2025.

The internships will be awarded in an open competition and selection for the award will be based on your submitted application only. There are no interviews for this award.

Tips:

• Early conversations with your line manager are essential to ensure positive outcomes from your application – you must have the support of your line manager, and they must be prepared to release you from your duties for the allocated time, before you apply.
  
  
• Our advice is to speak with your local research advocates – if you are not sure who this is, you could contact a research active clinical academic or research delivery lead.  Alternatively, you could contact a member of the NIHR NL RISE Internships team at bartshealth.hcpinternship@nhs.net

Key Dates

Application close: 9th October 2025

Notification of outcome: 24^th October 2025

Internships commence:

• Evolve - January 2026
• Engage – January 2026
• Explore – May 2026

There will be further rounds in 2026 and 2027.

Meet the Team

Our NL RISE partnership brings together organisations from across the region to support health and care professionals on their research journey. Through collaboration, we aim to provide tailored learning and development opportunities that enable health and care professionals to explore, engage and evolve their research skills.

Programme leads

• Dr Hortensia Gimeno – Barts Health NHS Trust
• Dr Imogen Skene – Barts Health NHS Trust

Programme Partners

• Jamila Kassam – Queen Mary University of London
• Professor Eamonn McKeown – City St George's, University of London
• Deidre Brooking – RRDN North London

Programme Collaborators

Our internship programme is strengthened by close collaboration with partner organisations across North London, who contribute to and support the overall programme.

The table below lists names contacts from our growing network across North London.

There contacts are your go-to people for guidance, local engagement and information about the programme.

Key contacts:

Barts Health NHS Trust​	bartshealth.hcpinternship@nhs.net
QMUL​	Jamila Kassam
City St George's, University of London​	Eamonn McKeown
RRDN North London​	bartshealth.hcpinternship@nhs.net
ARC North Thames ​	arc.academy@ucl.ac.uk ​
Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals  NHS Trust	Elisa Visentin​​
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust ​	Christine Adamson​
East London NHS Foundation Trust ​ ​	Fiona Kelly Eileen Bryant Mary Brazier ​​
Great Ormond Street Hospital	Faith Gibson
Imperial College NHS Foundation Trust	Gemma Clunie  Lina Johansson Helen Jones
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust	Stephen Ashford
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust	Aderonke Adebiyi
Royal National Orthopaedic NHS Foundation Trust	Jo Texeira ​ Rokhsaneh Tehrany
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Latha Aravinda
Whittington Health NHS Trust	Kathryn Simpson​ Lily Kirkpatrick Nura Abubaker
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust	Alison Finch ​ Yogini Jani ​ Gita Ramdharry

 

Where Can I Find Out More?

• North London RISE HCP Internships Guidance Notes [PDF 506KB]
• Recording of 2025 webinar
• Slides from 2025 webinar [PDF 648KB]

For further enquiries and support, please contact:  bartshealth.hcpinternship@nhs.net