SOM Scholarships, Travel Bursaries, Awards and Prizes
SOM offers Scholarships, Travel Bursaries, Awards and Prizes to SOM members to enhance your CV. Winning is great for your career, and simply entering is a valuable experience e.g. it gives you a chance to present your work at a meeting or conference in front of leading consultants and senior healthcare professionals. The SOM offers:
- An annual Golden Jubilee Award of up to £4,000 for SOM members (full members only) to understand more about occupational health around the world.
- An annual Dr A Peter Wright Scholarship to support a place and some subsistence costs on a UK Accredited Occupational Health and Medicine diploma course for a doctor who wishes to move into OH and would not otherwise be able to re-train in OH. Thanks to the generous contribution from the Wright family. A background to Dr A Peter Wright is here. Entries for 2025 now open - enter here.
- The Professor Tar-Ching Aw research memorial fund grant - Aim – to support research in occupational health in the UK and globally. Open to all. Success criteria include being linked to SOM ‘s strategic focus of leadership, wellbeing, and the value of OH. Test and learn approaches welcomed. Up to £3,100. Closed 1st October 2024.
- Prizes at the SOM/FOM Conference, which include The Morris Cooke Prize - for undergraduate medical students; The Ewan Macdonald Prize - for the Best Poster Prize (Standard or Oral Poster) and The Sandy Elder Award - an annual award to support an OH research project.
“Without support from SOM I would not be in a position to engage with the training and learning opportunities provided by the masters course. The MSc has been invaluable in developing my knowledge and skills in occupational health, providing a great foundation on which to build a future career as well as allowing me to help improve the support provided to workers and my organisation in the present.”
- Dr Sean Young