CHE Research Fellowships – Call for applications

Posted on Tuesday 20 January 2026

This research could be a short term research project to prime for the development of further research ideas, the development of a joint grant proposal or establishment of a longer term collaboration. 

The fellowship should be motivated by well defined activities and outputs, providing a clear motivation for the value of the in person visit(s) to CHE. Whilst we expect that substantial time is spent in CHE (2-6 months), personal circumstances will be considered to justify shorter visits and/or multiple visits if these do not compromise achieving the fellowship’s objectives.

Applications from experienced researchers are particularly welcome, but we will consider early career researchers who make an exceptionally strong application. This call is not open to PhD students.  

The value of the fellowship is up to £10,000, exclusively for contributing towards accommodation and travel expenses associated with the visit and subject to an agreed budget. Subsistence can also be claimed by Research Fellows based in LMIC countries.  Fellowship activities should take place between September 2026 and July 2027. 

The Fellowships were first launched in 2006 as a tribute to our late colleague, Professor Alan Williams, and to enable health economists from anywhere in the world to spend time at CHE working on collaborative research.

Process and criteria

• Applicants are requested to submit an initial expression of interest (max 300 words) by 1 March 2026 (see details below).
• Expressions of interest will be considered by senior CHE staff and the CHE Visiting Fellows Committee. Applicants with the strongest expressions will be requested to submit a full proposal, by 30 April 2026, (max 1000 words) providing details of the planned research (further details of the structure will be provided to those invited to submit). The successful applicant should expect to be notified of the outcome of their application from the end of June 2026.
• Applicants should contact potential hosts in advance, to have scoping conversations about the proposed fellowship activity and to obtain agreement about their availability to host. Hosts will typically be Senior Research Fellows, Readers, or Professors based in CHE; however, Research Fellows can act as a host when supported by a senior member of staff in the department. 
• The role of the host(s) is to support the fellowship, including having regular meetings with the visitor during the fellowship, and facilitating the fellow’s integration into academic life at CHE.
• The fellowship activity should be in any area of health economics. The current research areas of the Centre for Health Economics are broadly defined in the links below, although this is intended to be indicative rather than comprehensive:
  • Economic evaluation
  • Methods
  • Equity
  • Global health
  • Health and social care policy
  • Mental Health
  • Public health
  • Workforce and Healthcare Labour Markets
  • Industrial Organisation of Healthcare
  • Economics of Person-Centred Healthcare

We are also interested in fellowship ideas that cut across research areas e.g., mental health in a global health context; economic evaluation and public health; health and labour markets.

Fellows must be willing to present a CHE Seminar during their visit.

How to submit expressions of interest

Applicants should send the expression of interest and their CV via this Google application form. The closing date for submission is 4pm UK time on Sunday 1 March 2026. 

The form will prompt you to fill in the following information:

• A short title describing the fellowship activity.
• The type of fellowship activity proposed (e.g. short term research project, development of grant proposal, development of long term collaboration).
• Provisional dates of the fellowship activity.
• One or more CHE research themes the proposed research fits under.
• Proposed CHE host(s).
• Description of the proposed fellowship activity (300 words maximum), with recommended content including:
• the focus of the research;
• key aspects such as methods and data, if applicable;
• expected activities and outputs.
• An upload of your CV in .doc or PDF format.

International visiting fellows will require a visa and we will be in touch with successful applicants to gather information needed to support your visa application. Please be mindful of the time needed for your visa application when proposing the dates for your visit.

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