Funding
- Funding opportunities
- Fellowships/studentships
- Current research commissions
- Help with accessing funding
Funding opportunities
Funding administered by the RCN can be found on the Scholarships and Awards pages and the RCN Foundation pages.
Fellowships/studentships
Fellowships/studentships which are targeted predominantly at the nursing, midwifery and health visiting profession, and which have in-built funding attached to them, will now be listed in our career opportunities section. This includes information about the new Clinical Academic Training Pathway for Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals, being implemented under the auspices of the NIHR Research Capacity Development Programme.
Current research commissions
Current Research Commissions for major pieces of work under the auspices of the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) can be found on the NIHR website. They include calls from the following programmes:
- NIHR Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) managed programmes:
* Programme Grants for Applied Research
* Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) programme
* Invention for Innovation Research programme (i4i) This programme incorporates the New and Emerging Applications of Technology (NEAT) programme and the Health Technology Devices (HTD) programme
* Research for Innovation, Speculation and Creativity (RISC) programme
* Department of Health Policy Research programme (PRP) - NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC) managed programmes:
* Public Health Research (PHR) programme
* Health Services & Delivery Research (HS&DR) programme
* Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme
* Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) programme - NIHR Trainees Co-ordinating Centre (TCC)
- National Horizon Scanning Centre
- UK Cochrane Centre
- Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
- NHS Physical Environment Research programme
Website: http://www.nihr.ac.uk/proposals/Pages/default.aspx
Help with accessing funding
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Research Design Service (RDS)
The NIHR has established a new network of Research Design Service (RDS) to help researchers develop and design high quality research proposals for submission to national, peer-reviewed funding competitions for applied health or social care research.
Website: http://www.nihr.ac.uk/infrastructure/Pages/research_design_service.aspx
National Cancer Research Institute Grantsmanship Gateway
The NCRI grantsmanship gateway is a signposting resource directing early career researchers to expert advice on writing successful funding applications.