CoRIPS Student Research Awards
The CoRIPS Student Research Awards were established to encourage radiography students to consider a career path in research. Successful candidates who demonstrate their potential through application, will receive funding to support their research experience.
As part of this scheme, we’re delighted to launch the UKIO Pre-registration Student Attendance Award and the Pre-Reg Student Dissertation Award. Find further information below.
UKIO Pre-registration Student Attendance Award
This award will provide 2 students with financial support to attend UKIO – a three-day conference that showcases cutting-edge content around the medical, scientific, educational, and management issues affecting diagnostic imaging, oncology, and radiological service providers.
The awardee(s) will attend UKIO with a researcher who will be part of the research hub at the event. Each year, members of the College of Radiographers Research Group will determine the research team(s) and project(s) to be shadowed by the successful student(s), and this will be advertised ahead of UKIO.
Funding of up to £600 per student, will cover travel, accommodation, registration, and subsistence costs.
To be eligible to apply,
- You must be a student radiographer on a pre-registration programme or undertaking a degree apprenticeship that has been approved by the College of Radiographers.
- You must be in student membership with the Society of Radiographers or in membership under the relevant category for those undertaking a degree apprenticeship.
- You can be at any stage of a pre-registration radiography programme or apprenticeship, but you should be able to demonstrate an understanding of research principles. Please note, the award can only be granted once during studentship.
- Your application must be supported by a member of academic teaching staff (supporting academic). If you are undertaking a degree apprenticeship, you must have support from both a member of academic teaching staff at the representing university and a workplace supervisor.
Please note, an academic teaching staff member (supporting academic) or workplace supervisor can only support one student application per round of funding.
Before starting your application, please refer to the accompanying guidelines.
You can then complete our online application form by 5pm on 21 March 2025. If you have any queries related to this award, please contact the Professional and Education team at [email protected].
Pre-registration Student Dissertation Award
The purpose of this award is to celebrate research undertaken by radiography pre-registration students.
Teaching teams delivering radiography programmes approved by the CoR, will be invited to nominate a student who is deserving of the best diagnostic or the best therapeutic pre-registration student dissertation award.
Successful recipients will be awarded a prize of £300 which will be presented at the SoR’s Radiography Awards ceremony. This is a prestigious event that takes place every November in Central London, to celebrate the stand-out individuals of our community.
The student must be registered on a pre-registration programme or undertaking a pre-registration degree apprenticeship that has been approved by the College of Radiographers. In the case of submissions after course completion, the student must have met these criteria when submitting their dissertation to the Higher Education Institution.
The student must be (or have been at the time of submitting their dissertation to the Higher Education Institution) in student membership with the Society of Radiographers or in membership under the relevant category for those undertaking a degree apprenticeship.
Each education provider can only submit one application per discipline for the best diagnostic∗ project and the best therapeutic project, regardless of the number of pre-registration programmes offered. This is to make the process fairer for those institutions that offer fewer programmes.
As well as primary research, dissertations covering extended narrative reviews or similar will be considered, as long as quality and alignment to the College of Radiographers’ strategic research priorities can be evidenced.
*dissertations from students completing a direct entry ultrasound (DEUS) programme are eligible under the diagnostic pre-registration programme category.
Before starting your application, please refer to the accompanying guidelines.
You can then complete our online application form, by 5pm on 30 May 2025. If you have any queries related to this award, please contact the Professional and Education team at [email protected].
