No, your contractual arrangements with your employer will NOT be affected.
Your role and job description will remain the same. The internship provides protected time away from your day job to allow you to undertake the activities of your internship.
The money to provide backfill and training for your internship, will be paid to your employer.
Your department will use this money to pay for your internship activities.
No. Unfortunately, the funding for this scheme is specifically to support nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, pharmacists, healthcare scientists, social workers and public health professional.
There are other funding opportunities that support medics and dentists.
The NIHR website has details about career development funding opportunities:
Unfortunately, attending all the face-to-face events is a mandatory requirement of the
internship scheme. If this does not work for you, look out for the information for next year’s call and apply for that.
Yes. Applicants to previous internship funding calls may apply.
We understand that some managers are not familiar with all the funding schemes available.
And that some do not understand how this is a benefit for the staff member, our patients, service users and service.
We want to help demystify what research is and how the internship scheme is a great opportunity.
We will be hosting a webinar for managers via Teams on Friday 12thJune 2026 13.00 to 14.00 Microsoft Teams meeting.
We will describe and discuss the internship scheme and have a questions and answers session after the webinar.
Details for the Webinar are:
Meeting ID: 327 708 141 697 65
Please use this link and passcode: f6cW9am2 to join.
In addition, managers that have a successful intern appointed from their team, will be invited to join the managers’ support group of the Yorkshire and Humber Community of Research Practice Internship. We will invite your manager to face-to-face events to help support them to support you.
As part of this internship programme, we are building a toolkit to help managers support staff who want to be involved with research projects. Their input will be valuable to help design this.
We will describe and discuss the internship scheme and have a questions and answers session after the webinar.
In addition, managers that have a successful intern appointed from their team, will be invited to join the managers’ support group of the Yorkshire and Humber Community of Research Practice Internship. We will invite your manager to face-to-face events to help support them to support you.
As part of this internship programme, we are building a toolkit to help managers support staff who want to be involved with research projects. Their input will be valuable to help design this.