Research awards and prizes

Awards from our journals

Each year, several prizes are awarded to authors of outstanding research papers published in the RCR's scientific journals.

Awards from Clinical Radiology

Awards from Clinical Oncology

  • Clinical Oncology Early Career Investigator Award: to show support for early career researchers, each year the Clinical Oncology journal gives awards to three outstanding papers where the lead author was a trainee at the time of submission.
  • The Frank Ellis Medal is presented to the first author of the best paper considered to have made the best contribution to advancing the cause of science in cancer treatment or in the use of radiation in the management of benign disease published in Clinical Oncology in a given year.

RCR-NIHR Outstanding Clinical Radiology Researcher Award

  • Available to: NHS clinical radiology trainees and consultants who are Fellows or members of the RCR in active research
  • £250 prize
  • Opens for applications: July 2023

Research prizes for medical students

Undergraduate Edinburgh EAR Congress Research Prize

  • Available to: medical students in the UK
  • £400 prize
  • Opens for applications: 1 November 2021

Clinical radiology: Steven Carstairs Research Prize

  • Available to: medical students in the UK
  • £400 prize
  • Opens for applications: 1 November 2021