The Foundation makes grants to students taking higher degrees in subjects related to occupational and environmental health through selected universities and colleges and grants to students account for over one-quarter of the Foundation’s annual grants.

Each year a Students’ Day is held to which all current students, and occasionally former students, are invited to give a presentation of their work and outline their plans for the future. This gives them the chance to meet the other students and some of the Trustees and present their work to a friendly and supportive audience, which will include a small number of invited guests with a particular interest in the world of occupational health research.

Students’ Day in 2007 was held on Tuesday 4th December at The Gordon Museum at the GKT Campus near London Bridge Station and presentations were heard from nine of the Colt Foundation current students. The 2008 event will be expanded to include some of the young researchers who are engaged on Colt Foundation funded projects, and will be known as Colt Research Day. Colt Research Day will take place at The Gordon Museum on 3rd December 2008, and if anyone would like an invitation to attend please contact Jackie Douglas at The Colt Foundation.

Forthcoming Events

PhD Fellowships are awarded annually.

The advertisement for the 2009 PhD Fellowships will be sent out, and posted on the website under 'Students', in August 2008, with applications to be received by the end of October 2008. Potential applicants can contact Jackie Douglas on 023 9249 1400, or email on jackie.douglas@uk.coltgroup.com for further details or advice.

Recent Events

Colt Foundation Day 2006 was held on Monday 13th November 2006 at the Royal College of Physicians in London, to which all our current project teams and students were invited, and the following speakers addressed guests from throughout the world of occupational health research in the UK:

Professor Raymond Agius from the University of Manchester

Dr Richard Atkinson from St George's Hospital Medical School

Dr Paul Cullinan from the NHLI at Imperial College

Professor Ken Donaldson from the University of Edinburgh

Dr Rodger Duffin from the University of Edinburgh

Dr Gareth Jones from the University of Aberdeen

Dr Keith Palmer from the MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre in Southampton

Dr Pam Sonnenberg from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

Professor Vicki Stone from Napier University

Professor David Coggon OBE from the MRC Epidemiology Resource Centre in Southampton and a Trustee of the Colt Foundation also addressed the meeting.

The morning session was Chaired by Jerome O'Hea OBE, founder Trustee of the Colt Foundation and former Chairman of the Colt Group of Companies, and the afternoon session was Chaired by Professor Tony Newman Taylor CBE, Head of the National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, and Non-Executive Director (University nomination) of the Board of Governors of the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, and also a Trustee of the Colt Foundation.

If anyone is interested in having details of the presentations, they should contact Jackie Douglas on the telephone number or email address shown above.