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Reminder: Importance of internal pre-award approval deadlines
-Timely notifications and submission of your pre-award approval, via the UCT eRA System, ensures that all the relevant support functions, including FHS Research Finance, FHS Research Office and RC&I, can provide the necessary support to timeously review and approve external research grant proposals and contracts.
Make sure to submit all required documents and approvals by the specified deadlines to avoid any delays or complications in the review process.
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Funding Opportunity | Wellcome: Early Career Awards
-The Wellcome Early-Career Awards scheme is soliciting applications from early-career researchers from any discipline who are ready to develop their research identity. Through innovative projects, they should deliver shifts in understanding that could improve human life, health, and wellbeing. By the end of the award, successful candidates should be equipped to lead their own independent research programme.
Award details
PI salary for up to five years and up to £400 000 for research purposes.
Eligibility
Early-Career Researchers.
Download the PDF outlining UCT’s deadlines for internal approval.
Funder deadline:
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Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) training requirements for all researchers and students conducting research
-The Faculty of Health Sciences Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) requires evidence of research ethics training from everyone involved in research, to be submitted with all new protocol applications and annual progress reports for health research. Effective from 1 January 2026. the HREC will not accept new ethics applications or annual progress reports without research ethics training certification as described in the attached HREC letter.
Please reach out to hrec-enquiries@uct.ac.za for queries.
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