As members and fellows of the RCP you are entitled to a host of exclusive benefits, including access to our funding and awards opportunities.

We fund fellowships, research grants, prizes, lectureships and bursaries to help support, promote and celebrate research activity.

Our awards cover a range of specialties and are open to members at varying grades.

While some of our applications and scholarships previously had membership restrictions, please note applicants can now become members on the same day they apply for any of our awards and proceed with their application immediately.

Funding and awards at the RCP (directory and schedule) 2025

Funding and awards

RCP medical student elective bursaries

Currently accepting applications. Closing date: 28 February 2026.

Whitney-Wood scholarship

Closing date: 2 November 2025.

RCP virtual poster competition 2025

2025 competition closed. Reopens Spring 2026.

Graham Bull prize in clinical science and Goulstonian lectureship

Closed.

Teale essay prize

Closed.

Lectures

Covering a broad range of topics, these lectures are amongst the college’s most longstanding historic events.

Linacre lecture

Named after the Royal College of Physicians' first president, Thomas Linacre (1460–1524). Closing date: 10 November 2025.

Turner-Warwick lecturer scheme - applications

The RCP's prestigious lecturer scheme for trainee physicians. 2025-2026 competition closed. Reopens Spring 2027.

Lady Estelle Wolfson lecture in translational medicine

Founded by a bequest from Lady Estelle Wolfson to endow an annual lecture on translational medicine, this talk makes up part of our endowed lectures series. Closed.

Get in touch

To find out more about our awards, funding opportunities or lectures, or to be notified when the application window opens, please contact fundingandawards@rcp.ac.uk or call 0203 075 1785.