Post-graduate study PhD research 3 years full-time

Funding Stroke Association –Aimed at clinicians –Working in stroke –Will support you to complete a PhD or –Increase capacity for clinical research

Junior Research Training Fellowship Princess Margaret Research Development Fellowship Joint Fellowship with Medical Research Council Joint Clinical Fellowship with Welcome Trust

Junior Research Training Fellowship Nurses and therapists £105,000 over three years Research question Relevance Your clinical expertise + support of an experienced research team = right candidate to invest in How your clinical experience has shaped your research interest How this investment will shape your long-term career Written application Interview

Support CV Writing the funding application Practice for interview Find out about the funding body’s research agenda and previous investments

Time demands Secondment Responsibilities outside the PhD: –Bank SLT –Teaching assistant

Clinical implications single word retrieval sentence production communication-focused Investigating generalisation of therapy across assessment tasks and everyday conversation Design time-efficient therapies with generalisation in mind Candidacy for specific treatments