Apply for the 2025 Amber Young Burns Research Fellowship
The £20,000 Amber Young Burns Research Fellowship is for pump-priming, feasibility studies, and proof of principle projects intended to support early career burns researchers.
Applications are now open for the 2025 Amber Young Burns Research Fellowship, a grant scheme for early career researchers for projects in paediatric burns.
The Fellowship has only been made possible thanks to the generosity of Professor Amber Young, a globally-renowned paediatric burns specialist who is much-missed. Amber’s generous legacy is a gift to the next generation of burns researchers, patients, and treatments.
The £20,000 Fellowship is for pump-priming, feasibility studies, and proof of principle projects intended to support early career burns researchers.
There’s no disciplinary requirement: we encourage innovation from all fields, so long as your project improves the quality of care of paediatric burns patients.
When she offered this legacy to the Scar Free Foundation, Amber wanted three things:
- The money to be used for small pump-priming grants, which could get the ball rolling on innovative projects and foster the next generation of paediatric burns researchers.
- Anyone to be able to apply, from any discipline.
- The funded projects to improve the quality of care for paediatric burns patients. It didn’t matter what field, so long as it made people’s lives better.
Just before Amber died, she was awarded a major NIHR grant to undertake a James Lind Priority Setting Partnership to identify the priorities for global burns research.The project is essentially the culmination of her life’s work and was continued by her colleagues after her death.
Top ten research priorities in global burns care was published on April 23 2025 in The Lancet Global Health and we would like all applicants to respond to these ten questions in their applications.
We encourage applicants to address the 10 research priorities in their applications.
To apply, please follow these steps:
- Read the Terms of Reference
- Read the Top ten research priorities in global burns care
- Download and complete an Application Form
Return the completed form along with your CV to [email protected] by 5pm on Friday 13 June
If you have any questions, please get in touch by emailing [email protected].
We look forward to reading your application!
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