Bursaries

The Brazelton Centre UK is pleased to be able to offer a variety of bursaries each year to give opportunities for people to train in the Newborn Behavioural Observations and the Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale – with the aim of implementing these tools to transform care for newborn babies and their families.

Bursary applications are now closed. They will open again in summer 2025.

If you have any questions about our bursaries, please contact ‘kim@brazelton.co.uk’.

Left picture: Claudette (centre) was the winner of our very first bursary place launched in 2019.

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The Eileen Hayes Bursary

For practitioners based in the United Kingdom

The Eileen Hayes Bursary has been set up in memory of Eileen Hayes MBE who was our chair of trustees until her passing in 2017. Eileen was passionate about supporting new parents with young babies and her work for our charity made a tremendous difference, in allowing us to develop into one of the UK’s leading organisations to promote and provide training courses in Baby Communication and Behaviour (read more about Eileen Hayes here). Through the kind fundraising of her family and contributions from the Brazelton Centre UK we are able to offer this bursary to a number of individuals in the UK who would like to use the Newborn Behavioural Observations (NBO) or Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale (NBAS) to transform the care of newborn babies and their families in their setting.

Award:

2 day NBO/NBAS course fully funded
All training kit and materials free of charge
Post-training support and certification free of charge

Please note that this bursary does NOT cover any personal costs related to the training such as travel or accommodation.

Submission Deadline:

Bursaries for 2024 are now closed.

Open to:

Any individual professional working with newborn babies and their families in the United Kingdom. The individual will be passionate about using the NBO/NBAS tool to make a tangible difference to babies and their families, especially in promoting an understanding of baby communication and bringing the baby’s voice to the centre of care provision.

Application guidelines:

Applicants will need to fill the bursary application form which includes basic details including name, address, job title and employer.
Applicants will also need to submit a supporting statement outlining why they require the bursary and how their training will be implemented into practice to make a difference to newborns and their families, including the impact anticipated.

View our Bursary Policy for more information here

Requirements of successful bursary winners:

Individuals successfully awarded the bursary are expected to fulfil the following:

Certification within 6 months of attending the NBO training course and within 12 months of attending the NBAS training course.
Submit written reports of impact at 3 months, 6 months and 1 year following certification including details on how you are implementing the NBO/NBAS into your work with families and the impact you are seeing. Reports will preferably include at least one photo and one piece of feedback from a parent and/or manager. Please gain consent for quotes and photos to be used by the Brazelton Centre UK for their website and social media. Please send to ‘kim@brazelton.co.uk’.

How it works:

If you are chosen to be one of our bursary winners you will be informed by email. You will be given a bursary code which you can use when booking any course (either NBAS or NBO, depending on what you have applied to). When applied at the checkout, the code will deduct the full sum of the course value. You will be given a deadline for when need to book onto your chosen course date by.

Any questions please email: kim@brazelton.co.uk

The Reach Beyond Bursary

For practitioners based in countries with low-middle income economies

We were delighted to launch this new bursary in 2022 as part of our 3-year strategy which includes a commitment to expand the diversity and inclusivity of our charity. We believe that NBAS and NBO training should be available to anyone, anywhere. However, we understand there will be many who may struggle to receive or raise the funds to undertake training. We have set up the Reach Beyond bursary for individuals working with newborn babies and their families in countries with low and middle income economies for whom training in the Newborn Behavioural Observations (NBO) and Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale (NBAS) would otherwise be beyond reach.

We hope access to this training will help individuals and pairs bring an understanding of newborn babies’ communication to their programmes and help transform parent-infant relationships in their locality.

Award:

2 day NBO/NBAS course fully funded
Post training support and certification free of charge

Please note this bursary does NOT cover:

NBO/NBAS training kit due to issues with international postage and customs. Trainees will need to source their own items which will be explained in correspondence with our training manager.
any personal costs related to the training such as travel or accommodation.

Submission Deadline:

Bursaries for 2024 are now closed.

Open to:

Any individual professional working with newborn babies and their families in countries with low-middle income economies (see the list here). The individual will be passionate about using the NBO/NBAS tool to make a tangible difference to babies and their families, especially in promoting an understanding of baby communication.

Application guidelines:

Applicants will need to fill the bursary application form which includes basic details including name, address, profession, work address and title.
Applicants will also need to submit a supporting statement outlining why they require the bursary and how their training will be implemented into practice to make a difference to newborns and their families, including the impact anticipated.

View our Bursary Policy for more information here

Requirements of successful bursary winners:

Individuals successfully awarded the bursary are expected to fulfil the following:

Certification within 6 months of attending the NBO training course and within 12 months of attending the NBAS training course.
Submit written reports of impact at 3 months, 6 months and 1 year following certification including details on how you are implementing the NBO/NBAS into your work with families and the impact you are seeing. Reports will preferably include at least one photo and one piece of feedback from a parent and/or manager. Please gain consent for quotes and photos to be used by the Brazelton Centre UK for their website and social media. Please send to ‘kim@brazelton.co.uk’.

How it works:

If you are chosen to be one of our bursary winners you will be informed by email. You will be given a bursary code which you can use when booking any course (either NBAS or NBO, depending on what you have applied to). When applied at the checkout, the code will deduct the full sum of the course value. You will be given a deadline for when need to book onto your chosen course date by.

Any questions please email: kim@brazelton.co.uk

Nidhi Gupta Agrawal

Nidhi was awarded a Newborn Behavioural Observations bursary in 2021. She is a Consultant for High risk Neonates based in the Department of Neonatology at the Sirgangaram Hospital in Delhi, India.

A big thank you to Brazelton Centre UK for granting me the bursary for NBO. Being granted a funded place was a God sent opportunity to do this valuable course, which otherwise may not have been possible. I think NBO is the most wonderful way to demonstrate newborns’ amazing abilities with parents. Being trained in the NBO adds value to my true calling – following up high risk neonates.

Dr Asmaa Sadek

Asmaa became the first practitioner in Egypt to certify in the Neonatal Behavioural Assessment Scale (NBAS)! Asmaa was awarded funding through a Brazelton bursary to undertake the training.

As a neonatology consultant and a Lactation consultant, adding the NBAS experience has expanded my vision of how to understand and deal with neonates; in NICU, post discharge, neonates having difficulties breast feeding and even the apparently healthy newborns.
It has added a new piece in the puzzle of parent- infant relationships, making connections easier, with happier infants, caregivers and doctors. Behavioural assessment, NBAS, paved for me a new channel to better understanding, better connection and better care for newborns and their families. And for that I will always be grateful to the Brazelton Family.