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Research Evidence Update
June 2016
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Grants / Funding / Opportunities
Alzheimer’s Society Care and public health programme grants
https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=2171&categoryID=200427&pageNumber=15
Applications addressing a priority area: Post-diagnostic support, Independence at home, Advanced dementia, Quality of life
Closing date Stage One applications: 22 July 2016.
Arthritis Research UK
Career Development Fellowship
http://www.arthritisresearchuk.org/research/information-for-applicants/types-of-grant/career-development-fellowship.aspx
This enables a postdoctoral scientist or allied health professional to develop their career as an independent researcher in arthritis and related musculoskeletal conditions. The fellowship is normally awarded for five years and covers salary, reasonable running costs and purchase of small items of essential equipment costing up to £30,000 in total.
Closing date: TBC
Foundation Fellowship
http://www.arthritisresearchuk.org/research/information-for-applicants/types-of-grant/foundation-fellowship.aspx
This aims to retain the best postdoctoral researchers in research areas relevant to arthritis and musculoskeletal disease, and provide an opportunity for fellows to develop independent research ideas at an early stage in their career. The fellowship is normally awarded for three years and covers salary, reasonable running costs and purchase of small items of equipment.
Closing date: TBC
European Respiratory Society - Fellowship programme on guideline methodology
http://www.ersnet.org/index.php?option=com_flexicontent&view=items&id=5068-fellowship-programme-on-guideline-methodology.html
This provides training and placements for researchers to gain theoretical and practical skills for developing high quality guidelines. The fellowship will last six months in total and must be carried out in a full time basis. Funding covers living costs and travels between home and host institutions.
Maximum award: Not known
Closing date: 01 Jul 16 (recurring)
Guarantors of Brain Post doctoral fellowship
http://www.guarantorsofbrain.org/index.php?content=info
The Guarantors of Brain invite applications for their brain entry fellowships. This provides transitional funding support for early career clinicians.
The fellowship may be undertaken on completion of a higher degree and while waiting for a specialist registrar post, or at a later stage in training but before the completion of training. Applicants must be based in the UK.
The scholarship is for up to one year and consists of a full-time salary on the specialty registrar scale of up to £60,000.
Closing Date: No deadline
Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/grants-and-fellowships/fellowships/harkness-fellowships
The Commonwealth Fund's Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice provide a unique opportunity for mid-career health services researchers and practitioners from Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom to spend up to 12 months in the United States, conducting original research and working with leading U.S. health policy experts.
Health Foundation
Efficiency Research Programme
http://www.health.org.uk/efficiencyresearch
The Health Foundation’s Efficiency Research Programme are inviting researchers to submit ideas on the new ways of thinking that generate innovative approaches to support transformational change needed to ensure the long-term sustainability of health and social care in the UK.
Between £250,000 and £500,000 is available for three to five experienced research teams for projects completed over three to five years.
The deadline for all online applications is 23:59 on Thursday 28 July 2016.
Improvement Science Fellowships
http://www.health.org.uk/programmes/improvement-science-fellowships
This senior post-doctoral fellowship offers a unique leadership development programme with three years’ funding for original, applied research dedicated to improving health care in the UK.
We are looking for up to five fellows who will receive a tailored leadership development programme including facilitated action learning sets and individual coaching, funding for full salary and research costs, the opportunity to work with international experts in improvement science.
Applicants must demonstrate leadership skills and significant research or improvement in practice experience, with a PhD, professional doctorate or MD.
We encourage applications from clinicians who wish to combine research with continuing clinical practice.
Closing date: Tuesday 5 July 2016.
Kidney Research UK
Postdoctoral non-clinical fellowships
https://www.kidneyresearchuk.org/research/kidney-research-uk-grants
These enable postdoctoral scientists to specialise in renal research. Awards are for three years. Salary will be based on the appropriate university scale and will include an annual allowance for consumables, worth £15,000.
Closing date: 25 Nov 16 (recurring)
Senior fellowships – non-clinical
These support non-clinical scientists who have conducted independent research in the renal field and wish to build on their history and reputation in this field, deepening their knowledge and experience. The maximum grant available is for a five year period. The salary should be based on the appropriate university scale and in addition an annual allowance of £24,000 is made for consumables costs.
Closing date: 25 Nov 16
Medical Research Council - Clinical research training fellowship
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/skills-careers/fellowships/clinical-fellowships/clinical-research-training-fellowship-crtf/
This enables clinically qualified, active professionals to undertake specialised or further research training in the biomedical sciences within the UK. At the pre-doctoral level, the fellowship provides salary up to but not including NHS consultant level, and a research training support grant of up to £20,000 per year. At the postdoctoral level, the fellowship covers salary up to but not including NHS consultant level, research expenses and travel costs under full economic costs.
Maximum award: Not known
Closing date: 08 Sep 16 (recurring)
NIHR
Efficacy and mechanism evaluation programme – researcher-led workstream: 16/34
http://www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/funding/eme-researcher-led
Funding supports research into interventions based in or used by the NHS and its partners, including any method used to promote health, prevent and treat disease and improve rehabilitation or long-term care. There is no fixed limit on project duration. All funding should be clearly justified, but there is no upper limit.
Closing date: 05 Jul 16 (recurring)
Health Services and Delivery Research Programme
http://www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/funding/hsdr-researcher-led
16/48 – Evaluating the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme (one stage, straight-to-full)
Closing date: 23 June 2016
16/52 – Researcher led
16/53 – Researcher-led (evidence synthesis)
Closing date: 08 September 2016
HTA researcher-led funding opportunities
http://www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/funding/hta-researcher-led
The researcher-led workstream welcomes proposals on topics or research questions identified by researchers within the programme’s remit.
16/31 - Researcher-led, Expression of Interest to Full
16/32: Researcher-led, Evidence Synthesis Full
Closing date: 10 August 2016
Public Health Research Programme -Commissioned call
http://www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/funding/phr-commissioned
The NIHR Public Health Research Programme are accepting outline applications to their commissioned workstream for the following topics:
15/192 - Interventions to reduce negative health effects associated with noise in the living environment
16/07 - Outdoor green and blue spaces
16/08 - Loneliness and unwanted social isolation
16/09 - Community engagement
Closing date: 15 August 2016
16/39 Mid-life and physical exercise
16/40 Preventing road injuries
16/41 Sedentary behaviour
16/50 Sun exposure
Closing date: 05 December 2016.
Public Health Research Programme - Researcher-led call
http://www.nets.nihr.ac.uk/funding/phr-researcher-led
The NIHR Public Health Research Programme are accepting applications to their researcher-led workstream as follows:
16/37 - standard outline proposal
16/38 - evidence synthesis full proposal
Closing dates: 1 August 2016.
Research for Patient Benefit Programme Competition 30 - invitation for applications
http://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding-opportunities/research-for-patient-benefit-programme-competition-30-invitation-for-applications/3354
The NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) programme invites research proposals which are related to the day-to-day practice of health service staff and is concerned with having an impact on the health or well-being of patients and users of the NHS. As a responsive rather than a commissioning programme, RfPB does not seek to name specific topic areas and welcomes applications on a wide range of issues and aims to fund high quality research that will be directed at achieving benefit for users of the NHS in England. The programme supports applications which are regionally derived and applications which have emerged from interaction with patients and the public, which relate to patient and service user experience, and which have been drawn up in association with a relevant group of service users.
The closing date for applications is 3 August 2016.
Tackling antimicrobial resistance: pre-call announcement
http://www.nihr.ac.uk/research/tackling-antimicrobial-resistance-pre-call-announcement-april-2016.htm4
The Research Councils, along with other UK funders including the National Institute for Health Research, have been working together to identify a number of research opportunities and challenges to tackling the rise in AMR within four themes.
We are planning to announce a call for both smaller pump priming grants and larger collaborative research grants which will address theme 4 of the cross-Research Council initiative: ‘Behaviour within and beyond the health care setting’.
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Training / Events
NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research: Information Events
A series of information events has been set up to offer an opportunity to gain a greater understanding of the NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR) funding stream.
Registration to these events will be FREE and refreshments will be provided.
The events will take place in Newcastle, Nottingham, Stansted and Manchester.
Professor Paul Little, Director of the PGfAR programme will be joined by staff from the NIHR Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) and a local PGfAR funding panel member to give a presentation followed by a Q&A session
For more information and booking details please visit:http://www.rds.nihr.ac.uk/latest-news/programme-grants-for-applied-research-information-events/
NIHR Research for Patient Benefit programme information event
Date: 28th June
Venue: Trent Vineyard Conference Centre Unit 1 Easter Park, Lenton Lane, Nottingham, NG7 2PX
Time: 12:30 - 3:30pm
Cost: Free
This event is aimed at health researchers and will offer an opportunity to gain a greater understanding of the renewed NIHR RfPB programme. It will provide information about the changes to the programme and the types of proposals that NIHR are keen to encourage.
Researchers currently developing, or considering developing, a proposal for submission to RfPB have the opportunity to book a one to one session to discuss specific research issues with the speakers and RDS advisers. Those wishing to book a one to one session should state this when they reserve a place for the event.
Full details and booking form at http://www.rds-eastmidlands.nihr.ac.uk/rfpb-information-event
Other RDS EM events:
Realist Reviews and Realist Evaluation
14 – 18 November 2016, Rewley House, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford, UK
www.conted.ox.ac.uk/realist
This course will provide an understanding of realist review (or synthesis) and realist evaluation. Participants should then be able to apply their new knowledge and skills to their own realist research project, regardless of which field of research they come from.
In health care and many other fields of research, interventions are often described as being complex and have outcomes that are dependent on context. When these complex interventions fail to achieve their desired outcomes, the explanation frequently provided is because they are both complex and context dependent.
Realist research approaches (realist evaluation or realist review) can help make sense of these types of interventions or programmes. The approaches are theory driven – developing structurally coherent explanations of interventions and test these against empirical data.
Remixing Research - Methods for Increasing and Measuring your Scholarly Output on the Web
http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/shortcourseunit/remixing_research
1 day short course, Thursday, 23rd June 2016
Halifax Hall Hotel and Conference Centre, Sheffield, S10 3ER
This 1 day short course is aimed at a wide range of health professionals including (but not exhaustive of): Early Career Researchers, Information Professionals, Research Support Staff, PHD Students, NHS Researchers, Academics, Established Researchers, Librarians
Cluster Randomised Trials Design and Analysis
http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/shortcourseunit/cluster_randomised_trials
1 day short course, Thursday, 7th July 2016
Halifax Hall Hotel and Conference Centre, Sheffield, S10 3ER
This 1 day short course is aimed at a wide range of health professionals including (but not exhaustive of): Clinicians who need to design CRT’s, New researchers who want to appreciate the benefits, Statisticians who want to understand how to design and analyse CRT’s.
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Research News
Good Clinical Practice Inspection Metrics (MHRA)
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/good-clinical-practice-inspection-metrics-2007-to-present
Annual Review of Good Clinical Practice Referrals (MHRA)
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/annual-review-of-good-clinical-practice-referrals-2011-and-2012
Clinical trials data for medicines (MHRA)
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clinical-trials-for-medicines-authorisation-assessment-performance
Data on the number of applications for clinical trials, commercial or non commercial, approved by the MHRA
RAND Europe Report highlights the positive changes resulting from NIHR’s support of research
http://www.nihr.ac.uk/newsroom/featured-news/rand-europe-report-highlights-the-positive-changes-resulting-from-nihr%E2%80%99s-support-of-research/3452
100 examples of positive change from NIHR Research
The Research Design Service East Midlands April newsletter is available at http://www.rds-eastmidlands.nihr.ac.uk/rds-newsletter-april-2016.
Guardian - How the role of clinical research nurses in the NHS has changed - http://www.theguardian.com/healthcare-network/nihr-crn-partner-zone/2015/jun/05/how-the-role-of-clinical-research-nurses-in-the-nhs-has-changed
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Articles
The New England Journal of Medicine has started a series called “The changing face of clinical trials”. This is a series examining challenges in the design, performance, and interpretation of clinical trials. The editorial, and references to articles published so far, is at http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1601510
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Resources used:
BMJ
CASP UK
Community Tool Box
Equator Network
International Committee of Medical Journal Editors
Journal of Patient Safety
The King's Fund
Medical Research Council
National Institute for Health Research
University of Oxford
Links checked: 20/06/2016
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