BOA Travelling Fellowships

Applications for the Travelling Fellowships are now open!

The BOA endeavours to provide exceptional educational training opportunities for its members throughout each stage of their careers.

Every year, the BOA offers a number of Travelling Fellowships to its members. We invite applications for funding to undertake periods of additional specialist learning at sites outside your normal working/training location either within the UK or overseas, at one or more centres of excellence to gain knowledge and experience within trauma and orthopaedic surgery. Applicants are encouraged to be innovative in their approaches. For example, using the educational flexible working arrangements, such as less than full time posts, non-continuous attendance dates, or ‘day release’ formats.

We are keen to ensure this opportunity is available to our members this year, but have felt it necessary to make some changes to the scheme, which are outlined in the 2025 Instructions and Advice document. 

The fellowship awards are allocated on merit to current BOA Home Associates, Post-CCT members, or SAS Surgeon members. Applicants must be up-to-date with their subscription payments, and Post-CCT members are eligible as long as they have not taken up a Substantive Consultant post or been appointed to one by the closing date of 6th June 2025.

We are grateful to the fellowship sponsors of 2025, as follows:

• Heraeus (1 fellowship on infection in memory of Andrew Sprowson)

We are also delighted to confirm the SAS Education Fellowship will return for 2025. The BOA invites applications for the SAS Education Fellowship from SAS and LED members for a project of up to 12 months to support their education or career development.

We also recognise the endowments set up through donations and/or bequests from past members Mr Soli Lam and Mr Ram Kumar Chatterjee. We have allocated funds from these endowments (Soli Lam General Fund, Soli Lam Spinal Fund and Chatterjee Fund) to support a number of other fellowships. The full list of Fellowships available in 2025 is below: