Please find below links to recently announced research grant calls. If you have a research question, or project idea which you think may fit under one of these calls then please get in touch (email: g.scutt@brighton.ac.uk; tel: 01273462123).
17th March 2017
- The BOPA-PRUK research award. Grants will be awarded up to a value of £5,000 and may be used to support an independent research project or research component of a higher degree.
12th March 2017
- PRUK. Personal research awards and research training bursaries 2016
6th January 2017
- Dowager Countess Eleanor Peel Trust. Major (>£50,000) and minor (<£15,000) research grants focused on health and well-being in the elderly. Collaborators in the North West of England preferred.
5th January 2017
- Pharmacy Research UK Funding round opens. Click the link for more details. There are three main categories of award:
- Research Training Bursaries
- Personal Research Awards
- BOPA-PRUK Research Award
- Clinical Grand Round Symposium – British Thoracic Society. This is competition that ‘supports specialist trainees and health care professionals who submit clinical case studies to the society’s annual meeting. Submissions should highlight a case demonstrating aspects of commonly encountered diseases that provide the audience with key learning points, whilst providing a diagnostic or management challenge.’
25th November 2016
- NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme: There are commissioned calls in the following areas:
- preoperative inspiratory muscle training;
- proton pump inhibitor therapy for refractory gastro-oesophageal reflux symptoms
- role of bile duct imaging in gallbladder surgery
- frenotomy for babies with tongue-tie
- responsive versus scheduled feeding for preterm infants
- antidepressants for depression in people with Parkinson’s disease
- oral splints for orofacial symptoms.
- NIHR Health Technology Assessment Programme: There are commissioned calls in the following areas:
- pharmacological management of post-traumatic seizures
- treatments for women with recurrent stress urinary incontinence after failed primary surgery
- delivering babies in or out of water
- long-term impact of pre-incision antibiotics on babies born by caesarean section
- rescue cerclage
- selective gut decontamination in critically ill children
- harm reduction intervention for severe drug or alcohol dependence among people who are homeless
- pramipexole for treatment resistant bipolar depression
- problem solving therapy for depression in older adults with dementia
- improving communication for adults with profound and multiple learning disabilities
- clozapine in the treatment of borderline personality disorder
- reducing the risk of anxiety disorders in children of parents seeking help for their own anxiety
- risk assessment tool to help identify prisoners at further risk of self-harm
- knee braces in the management of knee osteoarthritis
- partial removal of dental caries in permanent teeth
- low-dose antidepressants for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome
- modelling the potential for health gain and cost effectiveness of the NHS health check programme.
11th November 2016
- Sir George Alberti Research Training Fellowship
- Alzheimer’s Society Project Grants
- Health Services and Delivery Research Programme – Commissioned call
- Health Services and Delivery Research Programme – Researcher-led call
4th November 2016
- Patient safety student and trainee prize
- Efficacy and mechanism evaluation programme – researcher-led workstream: 16/126
- People Awards support public engagement projects that encourage the public to consider and debate issues raised by health and wellbeing research. Grants are up to £40,000
- Travel bursaries, BHIVA
- Research grants, Dunhill Trust, care of older people