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News and Funding Opportunities

Welcome to the festive December edition of the Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) monthly e-newsletter.

Keeping you updated with the latest news, events, communications and call date reminders from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).
 
Office hours over the Christmas period

The CCF offices will be closed from 1pm on Tuesday 24 December until 9am on Monday 5 January.

Wishing you a fabulous Christmas and New Year.
New NIHR Blood and Transplant Research Units announced

Following an open competition the NIHR is investing £12.1 million in three new Blood and Transplant Research Units (BTRUs) that support the future needs of donors, patients and NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT). 

Read the NHSBT press release.
 
New membership for the NIHR School for Primary Care Research

The membership for the NIHR School for Primary Care Research from 1 Oct 2015 to 30 Sept 2020 is confirmed as the universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Keele, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham, Oxford, Southampton and UCL.

Read more.
NIHR Dean for Faculty Trainees

The Department of Health wishes to contract with an institution for the part-time services (2 to 2½ days per week) of a clinical academic with experience and interest in clinical or applied research to be appointed NIHR Dean for Faculty Trainees. The individual will replace Professor Jim Neilson who will retire in the summer of 2015.

Find out more and apply.
INVOLVE social media guidance published

The guidance provides information on: 
  1. different types of social media currently being used to involve the public in research
  2. examples of how social media is being used
  3. benefits and challenges
  4. risks and ethics
  5. top tips and things to think about
  6. jargon buster and useful reading
Download: Guidance on the use of social media to actively involve people in research

View: Nine examples of public involvement using social media
 
Join in the Twitter conversation.
#SoMePI @NIHRINVOLVE 
Young people lead on developmentally appropriate healthcare DVD

One of our Programme Grants, the Transition Research Programme,is developing a DVD on developmentally appropriate healthcare.

Read more.
Around the NIHR

Cross NIHR collaboration results in high quality funding proposals
The collaborative work of the NIHR Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure (NOCRI) supports the transformation of research across the NHS, and together with programmes such as the NIHR Efficacy and Mechanism (EME) Programme works to accelerate the translation of basic science discoveries into tangible benefits for patients and the economy. Read more.

Newsletters and blogs
Read the NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) community e-newsletters on diabetes and patient safety.

The NIHR Great Ormond Street Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) highlights it's notable activities in their November 2014 newsletter.

Read the latest blogs from NIHR CLAHRC West Midlands:
- social change; and international response to Ebola
- reducing road traffic incidents
- preventing obesity and economic effects of low fertility

RESEARCHTALK: the new e-newsletter from the NIHR Royal Brompton Cardiovascular and Respiratory Biomedical Research Units (BRUs)
 
Funding opportunities
CCF-managed NIHR programmes

Invention for Innovation (i4i)
9th call for i4i Product Development awards
4th call for i4i Challenge Awards
NOW OPEN. Closing date: 1pm on 14 January 2015

Programme Grants for Applied Research
Competition 18
NOW OPEN. Closing date: 1pm on 3 March 2015

Programme Development Grants
Competition 13
NOW OPEN. Closing date: 1pm on 10 March 2015

Research for Patient Benefit
Competition 26
NOW OPEN. Closing date: 1pm on 21 January 2015

The NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre's (NETSCC's) calls and competition open dates and deadlines can be viewed on their website.

The Career Development Opportunities page provides information on NIHR funding for research training.
NIHR Research Design Service (RDS)

Free design and methodological support to health researchers
Find out more.
New media competition 
Round five

Now open
Deadline for entries:
31 March 2015
Find out more.
i4i Accelerator

Designed to help researchers maximise their chances of success when applying for funding.
More info.

Did you know?

The first edition of the NIHR Clinical Research Network's corporate magazine - Insight - is out now.
 
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