Medical Psychotherapy prizes and bursaries
The Faculty of Medical Psychotherapy has established a small project grant to stimulate research in the specialty. Funded projects should support the work, aims and objectives of the Faculty.
Eligibility to apply
Current College members, holding one of the following categories of membership can apply: Member, Fellow, Specialist Associate, Affiliate or Pre-membership trainee.
How to apply
Members are invited to complete and submit the submission form with relevant details. The form should be emailed to RCPsych Faculties.
No additional information or documentation should be sent.
Value
The Faculty will award grants of between £250 and £2000.
Frequency
A grant awarding round will be held each year subject to funds being available.
Reporting
The main grant holder will be expected to provide a report to the executive committee one year after commencement of the grant, and to provide a final report after two years.
The main grant holder will be expected to present their findings at the Faculty Annual Conference the year following the award.
Rules and key criteria
- Entrants are invited to submit a proposal relevant to issues of concern to the Faculty of Medical Psychotherapy by completing the submission form.
- The project may involve such activities as quantitative or qualitative original research or QI activity and may form part of the funding for a project with other sources of income.
- Current College members, holding one of the following categories of membership can apply: Member, Fellow, Specialist Associate, Affiliate or Pre-membership trainee.
- In cases where a project has more than one investigator, the application for the grant must be led by a College member. That person will become the main grant holder.
- Payment will be made on submission of an invoice from a sponsoring organisation such as a Trust or university.
- The main grant holder will be expected to provide a report to the executive committee one year after commencement of the grant, and to provide a final report after two years.
- The main grant holder will be expected to present findings at the Faculty annual conference the year following the award. Format to be agreed with conference organisers.
- Applications will be examined by a panel appointed by the Faculty executive, normally the three Faculty officers.
- The grant award will be notified to the Faculty executive committee at its next meeting.
- The Faculty reserves the right not to make the award where suitable applications are not received or where there are insufficient funds in the Faculty budget.
The hallmarks of a successful application: tips from the Faculty panel
- It should be able to be completed in 1 year.
- The purposes to which the finances will be put should be spelled out and broken down into components.
- It should be clearly related to the field of medical psychotherapy, and the way the results will contribute to the field should be explicit.
- It should not be part of a wider application or rely on funding from elsewhere, unless such funding has been definitively secured. If part of a larger application, the part played by the funding requested from the Faculty should be explicit.
- It should if possible include a proposal for how the project might progress if the full amount requested is not awarded.
Submissions open
We are currently accepting submissions for the 2025 award until the deadline midnight 31 March 2025.
Please contact us if you have any queries.
The Faculty of Medical Psychotherapy has created an essay prize for medical students to stimulate interest in the field of medical psychotherapy and encourage the most talented individuals to consider a career in the specialty.
Prize
The winner will receive £250, a certificate, and free registration for the Medical Psychotherapy Faculty conference in 2025. The winning essay will also be published in the faculty newsletter.
Frequency
Annual
Eligibility
Undergraduate medical students based at universities in the UK.
Essay title
Essays of up to 5,000 words are invited on the topic:
"Discuss the topics of inclusivity and exclusivity, labels and stigma in Medical Psychotherapy."
Regulations
- Please submit an essay of up to 5,000 words on the given topic. The word count includes footnotes and an appendix but excludes the bibliography. The document should be in Word or pdf format at note the word county.
- Please submit a short CV with your essay not including personal details including your name, address or the name of institutions or organisations.
- Please ensure patients' confidentiality by not revealing any details that might identify them.
- Entries will be shortlisted and judged by a panel appointed by the faculty executive committee. Entries will be judged on originality, clarity of expression, comprehension of the literature, cogency of argument, and overall ability to convey enthusiasm
for the specialty.
- The faculty executive committee reserve the right to withhold awarding the prize should entries not be of a satisfactory standard.
- The conference registration cannot be carried over to a future year.
- The prize does not include travel, accommodation, or subsistence expenses.
- Please submit your CV and essay with the subject line 'Medical Psychotherapy Essay Prize' to Faculty committees.
Submissions
Submissions are now open for the 2025 prize and the extended deadline is midnight 28 February 2025.
Winner 2024
Phoebe Cherrington-Walker- How might power and conflict have a place in Psychotherapy?
Winner 2022
Carly McCullough – ' Mother Nature’s Most Successful Lie: How psychotherapy concepts can inform obstetrics in the prevention of birth trauma'
Winner 2021
Josephine Akoro