Vice-Chancellor's Fellowships

Health and wellbeing

Within the Health and Wellbeing priority area we welcome applicants that reflect our current key strategic areas. These include neuroscience, cardiovascular sciences, population health, cancer epidemiology, mental and physical health and wellbeing across the life course, animal welfare and behaviour and medical humanities.

In neuroscience, we look to build on our existing strengths in cognitive and behavioural neuroscience, molecular basis of neuronal function, and neural networks and dynamics. This includes key areas including synaptic plasticity, addiction, visual perception and pain.

de Pass Vice-Chancellor’s Fellowship, a special award for future leaders in neuroscience

In cardiovascular sciences, our strengths include cardiovascular physiology, regeneration, atherothrombosis, hypertension, cardiac surgery, epidemiology, randomised trials and research into exercise and nutrition. We welcome applications that complement our world-class fundamental science identifying novel molecules and pathways, and facilitating the development of novel translational and therapeutic approaches, for all aspects of cardiovascular disease

In population health, our international reputation and track record extends across a broad range of areas, including public health, primary care, child health, mental health and wellbeing, musculoskeletal disease, cancer, surgery, randomised controlled trials, cancer epidemiology, epidemiological methods relevant to genetics, epigenetics and metabolomics, and the development and application of Mendelian randomisation. There is a strong focus on the impact of our research, a longstanding culture of interdisciplinary research as well as methodological research in for example evidence synthesis and improved recruitment to randomised trials. 

Vice-Chancellor’s Fellowship in Young People’s Mental Health, this Elizabeth Blackwell Institute’s Vice Chancellor’s Fellowship is a special award for future leaders in research into young people’s mental health.

In animal health, welfare and behaviour, we include work across the veterinary and life sciences sectors. This might relate to farm or companion animal welfare, or the impacts of global change on animal populations including how anthropogenic pollutants and global change directly impact animal behaviour, and how living systems cope with human influence. 

Medical Humanities. The Faculty of Arts has a broad and long-established interested in the intersection of Health and the Humanities, ranging from the history of Medicine to the study of wellbeing via medical ethics. We welcome applications in all areas that contribute to this growing body of research and which approach health and individual or societal wellbeing through one or more of the Faculties' disciplinary areas or one of its six Research Centres. These might include, for example, anthropological or historical studies of population health, the history of disease or treatments in specific societies and cultures, or the contribution of the arts to mental health and especially wellbeing among many other possibilities.

Health and wellbeing across the life course: Social scientists from across the Faculty have international reputations for their research in health and wellbeing across the life course, including: healthy ageing and social care; physical activity, nutrition and community health; mental health; maternal, reproductive and infant health; disability studies; economics and management of healthcare; law, procurement and regulation. These strengths are reflected in research centres  and groups within the Faculty’s Schools as well as in two of the cross-disciplinary Faculty Research Groups; their webpages will provide more information on current research, and therefore the types of projects that could be sponsored under this theme. There are additionally strong links between social scientists and other health research initiatives, including the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute; Population Health Sciences and Digital Health. If you are interested in a fellowship in this area please contact Professor Deborah Wilson (D.Wilson@bristol.ac.uk) for more information.

How to apply