Awards, grants and prizes

If you’re part of the College’s membership network, you could be eligible for funding to support your research and training. The RCOG offer these incredible opportunities alongside a number of prizes for exceptional and original contributions to the field.

• Annual Academic Award
• EGA Hospital Charity Travelling Fellowship in Memory of Anne Boutwood
• Ethicon Travel Award
• Harold Malkin Prize
• Florence and William Blair Bell Research Fellowship
• Lindsay Stewart Travelling Fellowship
• RCOG Educational Observership Programme

If you know a peer with a passion for O&G, or think that you have a flair for clinical excellence, consider applying for one of our coveted awards or prizes.

• Ethicon Student Elective Award
• Herbert Erik Reiss Memorial Case History Prize
• Kolkata Eden Hospital Annual Prize
• Lindsay Stewart Student Award
• Target Ovarian Cancer Essay Prize
• Tim Chard Case History Prize
• Women’s Visiting Gynaecological Club Prize

We want to celebrate everyone that contributes exceptional, original work to the field of O&G and women’s healthcare more broadly. The awards and prizes listed below can be received by Members and non-members.

• Eden Travelling Fellowship in Obstetrics and Gynaecology
• Edgar Gentilli Prize
• John Lawson Prize
• Scientific Undergraduate Academic Prize

When the work carried out by a Fellow or Member is of outstanding merit, advancing the science of O&G, they may be nominated for an award and medal.

• Eardley Holland Medal (the next award will be 2025)

For scientists and clinicians wishing to share their work, the RCOG offer lectureship awards. Candidates will have the opportunity to attend and speak at our Annual Academic Meeting.

• Lindsay Stewart Memorial Lecture
• William Blair Bell Memorial Lecture

Where high-quality research is produced or clinical excellence achieved, individuals may be eligible for funding and awards.

• National Clinical Impact Awards
• Sims Black Travelling Professorship
• Five Countries Meeting Trainee Bursary
• Asia and Oceania Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (AOFOG) | Trainee Bursary (open for applications until Thursday 11 January 2024