January 8th 2025

By Ailsa Colquhoun

Scottish funding available for rural professional development

Funding for research into remote, rural or island health and care is available in Scotland.

A Remote and Rural Primary Care Research and Evaluation funding opportunity aims to make a contribution to the evidence-base for remote, rural, and island health and care research or evaluation and can be used for the development of rural, remote or island professionals based in Scotland.

 Funding applications will be considered for: 

• Postgraduate research e.g., Masters, PhD, EdD, MRes etc. 
• Other professional development work where it can be shown to contribute to post-graduate level remote, rural, and island research and/or evaluation.
• Publication costs, e.g. journal articles, open access articles etc. 
• Covering staff time to enable practitioners to engage in the project.

Applications should be received by 1 March 2025.