Study and Train
Explore a career in health data science, or advance your skills, with our opportunities to study and train.
We offer a whole range of initiatives and opportunities – from internships to postgraduate scholarships, and mentorships to an alumni group.
And you can sign up right now for HDR UK Futures, our rapidly growing online free learning platform. It offers well over 100 cutting edge video-based courses, and signposts users to many more.
Train
Explore our various professional development opportunities, from online training and apprenticeships, to internships and networking.
Become a Training Partner
HDR UK works with carefully selected partners in order to maximise access to high-quality health data research training and learning material. Could you join our team?
Futures brings you expert-led, CPD-accredited video-based courses designed and led by subject matter experts. It’s ideal for health data science professionals and students, offering the chance to learn new skills or keep up to date with the latest developments. Find out more about everything that Futures offers you.
Check out our latest opportunities and news
Master’s Degree Scholarships
The HDR UK Master’s Scholarship Programme funds students to undertake UK health data science master’s degrees backed by disease specific research projects with leading charities and research organisations.
HDR UK Elevate with Professor Sinead Langan and Professor Eric Benchimol
Join us when the HDR UK Early Careers Seminar series returns with special guests Professor Sinéad Langan and Professor Eric Benchimol.
The series is designed for our early careers research community, helping them develop their careers.
Sinéad (Medical Director at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine), and Eric (paediatric gastroenterologist and epidemiologist at the...
Innovation Observatory Horizon Scanning Immersion Visit
Researchers from the HDR UK training and learning community are being offered the chance to join an exclusive immersion visit to the NIHR Innovation Observatory.
HDR UK Early Career Researcher Conference 2026 – SOLD OUT
SOLD OUT - HDR UK's Early Career Researcher (ECR) Conference 2026
Data Curation Skills for Sensitive Data
Secure access to sensitive data through Trusted Research Environments (TREs), Secure Data Environments (SDEs) and Safe Havens is a powerful enabler of research, but it depends on having a workforce skilled in data curation. Data Curation Skills for Sensitive Data aims to identify gaps in and improve the delivery of data curation skills training.
What Our Master’s Course Funding Has Achieved
HDR UK provided scholarship funding to support the development of a series of master's programmes across the country. We spoke to two of the universities involved to find out how their courses have developed.
Who we are and what we do
Find out about how we provide training and learning opportunities to develop health data scientists with the cutting edge skills for careers at the forefront of a rapidly evolving sector, and why we do it.
About the Training Team
Spearheading nationwide initiatives to train the world-class workforce needed to bring advances in health and care through health data science.
