Here you will find information on Fellowships in the Innovation and Workforce Diversification team portfolio.
Public Services Delivery (PSD) Scotland engages with and contributes to a range of fellowship activity in collaboration with strategic partners.
This activity align with the Research and Innovation plan.
These fellowships inform and influence future workforce education planning in Scotland.
We engage with three innovation and entrepreneurial fellowships:
PSD Scotland works in collaboration with Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust to access the NHS Fellowship in Clinical Artificial Intelligence (AI).
This programme aims to ‘equip healthcare leaders to adopt clinical AI’ (Guys & St Thomas’) 2025.
The fellowship aligns to Theme 5 of the Research and Innovation Plan: research and innovation capacity.
In this example of transformative work-based learning, fellows are released 2 days per week to join live clinical AI projects across Scotland under expert supervision.
Alongside this they join UK peers in roadshow workshop events over the 12-month curriculum
Read more about the fellowship and Scotland's participants
The Innovation and Workforce Diversification workstream leads PSD Scotland engagement with this programme.
PSD Scotland collaborates with a range of partners in Scotland to support candidates on the NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme.
The Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre (DHI) facilitates coordination of the Scotland cohort, working with PSD Scotland, InnoScot Health, the Chief Scientist Office, Techscaler and Scottish Enterprise.
The NHS Clinical Entrepreneur Programme has recently celebrated 10 years of successful delivery.
We welcome Scotland’s next cohort to this exciting work-based learning programme in May 2026.
Chief Scientist Office (CSO) delivers a range of fellowships. The Innovation and Workforce Diversification workstream engages with the Innovation Academic Fellowship, promoting the opportunity. The engagement adds coherence across the innovation landscape focusing on what this means for the system and future skills need. PSD Scotland plays an active part in recruitment and selection of fellows, supports development sessions and contributes to connectedness with fellows.
Recruitment by CSO is currently paused.