The College is pleased to offer its Fellows and Members exclusive access to two new Travelling Fellowships established through the William and Elizabeth Davies Charitable Foundation. The William and Elizabeth Davies Foundation supports a range of activities geared towards improving the management of cancer.
The Davies Foundation Travelling Fellowship offers two awards of £10,000 towards travelling and subsistence expenses for consultants wishing to take a sabbatical to undertake further study or research in cancer and its related fields.
Those interested in applying for the Fellowships should submit a CV along with a completed application form and a short report of the objectives of their project, proposed project outcomes and a budget for the visit.
The William and Elizabeth Davies Charitable Foundation supports a wide range of activities to support research, education and training in cancer care and treatment.
These include:
Fellowships, to allow young doctors to develop a career in research;
Provision of training in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer;
Named international lectures on all aspects of cancer management;
Visiting Professorships to enable outstanding practitioners and scholars to contribute to cancer education and research in the West of Scotland; and
Facilities to support the development of diagnostic and therapeutic skills.
Awards may also be made to those working in the field of palliative care.
Application form (word)
Davies Foundation Travelling Fellowship Leaflet
When completed, this form should be returned to:
Frances Fagg
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow
232-242 St Vincent Street
Glasgow G2 5RJ
William and Elizabeth Davies
William Ernest Davies was born in Wishaw in 1912 and died in 2002. His steel-worker father died when William was five months old when he and his mother went to live with his grandparents. Employed by the Burgh of Wishaw as a meat inspector, he was seconded to the Admiralty at the outbreak of World War II.
He married his wife Elizabeth, a trained nurse from High Blantyre, in 1942 and William’s work kept them overseas in Ceylon and Hong Kong, before finally settling in Malta. They had no children and when Elizabeth died in 1995, they had been married for 53 years.