Question: Have you won any awards yet?

Rebecca Dewey answered on 15 Jun 2015:

I have successfully been awarded money to do certain things. Basically, you write an application saying why you should be allowed some money to do this really important thing and outline how you will benefit, and how your employer will benefit, and how the whole world and science and patients etc. will benefit. Then the grant panel will read this and decide how worthwhile your proposed activity is and how realistically they think you will be able to achieve it, and therefore if they want to give you the money. Some of these are more competitive than others so I’ll list them below with how hard to get they were. I’ll list earliest to latest (the last one I only found out about last week!!).

Money to travel to a meeting in Stockholm: about £350, not too hard
Money to travel to a meeting in Montreal: about £900, not too hard
Money to travel to a meeting in Melbourne: about £400, not too hard
Money to work in Japan for two months: about £3000 very very very hard
Money to travel to a meeting in California: about £1500, fairly hard to get
Money to do MRI scans on 50 patients which should keep me busy for the next 18 months: £30,000, very very very hard to get.
I also helped some colleagues apply for something like £7 million, which they did win, but I only helped a tiny bit they did all the work really so I don’t get the credit for it 🙂