Graduate Development Programme: Medical Humanities and Engagement Grants

The MH&E Grants department provides funding for high-quality research and other activities in the fields of medical humanities and public engagement with biomedical science. We aim to build and maintain research capacity across the medical humanities by offering three grant programmes: Medical History and Humanities, Ethics and Society and Research Resources in Medical History.

By supporting practitioners of public engagement, we seek to promote interest, learning and excitement about biomedical science and its past, present and future impacts on society, and to and stimulate an informed debate to raise awareness and understanding of biomedical science, its achievements, applications and implications. Thus, we operate all of the MH&E grant schemes and fund things as diverse as scholarly translations of ancient medical texts and Emmy award-winning television programmes.

Time spent here will not only enable you to get experience of how grant schemes operate but also expose you to the vast array of research and activities that we fund. It will allow you to get involved in medical humanities research and visit major centres for this research, and follow up an interest in public engagement by playing a role in visiting and monitoring our funded activities such as debates, theatre productions, exhibitions, art installations, schools projects and television/radio productions.

By the end of your stay in our department you will have gained sufficient knowledge about the process of grant making to be confident about what makes a good research or public engagement project. You will have seen how ideas on paper are turned into high-quality research, events or media projects - many of which will have a lasting legacy. Additionally, you will have had the opportunity to produce web content and/or articles for Trust publications that will tell stories about the people we fund and their projects.