MQ has lengthy been dedicated to rising the psychological well being analysis workforce. For the final 10 years we now have invested in our flagship Fellowships programme. Nonetheless, the proportion of researchers leaving academia straight after finishing their PhD could also be as excessive as 70%. In response, we launched the MQ Scholarships Programme to assist help the following technology of ground-breaking psychological well being researchers. Â
82 scientists utilized to be a part of this yr’s first cohort and our professional worldwide funding committee selected six tasks to help. Of those, one relies in Australia, one in Colombia, one in India, one in Uganda, and two within the UK.
Over the following two years, every researcher will get the help they should ship their tasks. Not simply by way of the required monetary backing, but additionally via vital capability and profession improvement.
These are the six early profession researchers we’re happy to be supporting with this new programme:
