Rowling Fellowships

Rowling Fellowships are designed to enable doctors undertaking their specialty training to step away from clinical practice for 1 year to experience clinical research, and potentially pursue a higher degree (PhD/MD). Rowling Fellows are University of Edinburgh staff, on a clinical pay scale.

Rowling Fellows undertake clinical roles in academic, and commercial, research studies and trials, such as consenting participants, performing clinical assessments and maintaining patient databases, as well as promoting, conducting and reporting research. There will be opportunities for Fellows to gain insight into, for instance, trials assessment, research governance, ethics applications, clinical epidemiology, novel molecular diagnostic tests, neuroimaging, genetics and neuropathology. The Fellows also develop skills in leadership, management and public engagement activities.

Application deadline

The next round of applications will be in Feb-Mar 2025 for a start in August 2025.

The video below tells you more about the Rowling Clinical Fellowship position.

Rowling Graduate Research Practitioners (formerly known as Graduate Internships)

Rowling Graduate Research Practitioner posts are 1 year salaried positions to enable graduates at an early stage of their career to experience clinical research. The remit will usually comprise data management and processing alongside the experience of working in a busy clinical research environment. There is also the opportunity for interns to develop their own area of research interest.

Application deadline

The next round of applications will be in Feb-Mar 2025 for a start in August 2025.

The video below tells you more about the Rowling Graduate Research Practitioner position.

Transcript of Rowling Graduate Research Practitioner video [PDF download]

Other vacancies

For research assistant and other opportunities at the Anne Rowling Clinic, please search University of Edinburgh vacancies using Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic as a key word.