Kennedy Trust awards seventh Senior Research Fellow
Dr Rahul Kalla at the University of Glasgow has been awarded a prestigious Kennedy Trust Senior Research Fellowship, worth £1.5m over the next five years to support his research. During the fellowship, Dr Kalla plans to focus on inflammatory bowel...
New partnership to establish Patient Voice Network has ‘LIFT-off’!
The Kennedy Trust is delighted to be working in partnership with Arthritis UK and Orthopaedic Research UK to fund LIFT- the Listening, Involving, and Forging Trust in Musculoskeletal Research collaborative programme. This new UK-wide programme will establish a Patient Voice...
New grants for bright ideas
Eleven new grant awards have been awarded by the Kennedy Trust in 2025, totaling £2.6m over the next 5 years. Five early career researchers have been funded through the Trust’s new Transition Fellowship scheme, which is designed to support postdoctoral...
2024/2025 funding calls announced
The Kennedy Trust is excited to announce a new schedule of funding calls: . . Transition Fellowship (£500k): opening October 2024 Research Ignition Awards (£100k): opening March 2025 Senior Research Fellowship (£1.5m): opening October 2025 . . Further details of...
Research Ignition Awards 2023: successful applicants announced
The Kennedy Trust launched its Research Ignition Awards in 2023, with the aim of pump-priming innovative and ambitious avenues of research into rheumatic and related musculoskeletal, immunological and inflammatory diseases. Following peer-review by an independent panel of experts, ten awards...
Ten Research Ignition Awards awarded
We are delighted to announce that we have awarded ten new Research Ignition Awards, the Kennedy Trust’s inaugural pump-priming grant scheme designed to enable researchers to build ambitious programmes of research. The research themes cover diverse areas, including osteoarthritic pain,...
The Kennedy Trust and Versus Arthritis to co-fund fatigue scoping review
The Kennedy Trust has partnered with Versus Arthritis to fund a comprehensive scoping review on the ways of measuring, assessing and treating severe fatigue associated with rheumatic and related musculoskeletal disorders. The review will be carried out by Assistant Professor...
Research Ignition Awards launched
Research Ignition Awards 2023: applications now closed The Kennedy Trust is delighted to announce the launch of an innovative new funding scheme: the Research Ignition Awards. With the goal of stimulating new and ambitious avenues of research, these awards will...