Funding

 

Funding opportunities

The RCN is now working in partnership with RDInfo to provide information about sources of research funding.

 

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.

The RDFunding website has a wider range of information on fellowships and studentships.

 

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:

  1. 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)
  2. NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC) managed programmes:
    * Public Health Research (PHR) programme
    * Health Services Research (HSR) programme
    * Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme
    * Service Delivery and Organisation programme (SDO)
    * Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) programme     
  3. NIHR Trainees Co-ordinating Centre (TCC)
  4. National Horizon Scanning Centre
  5. UK Cochrane Centre
  6. Centre for Reviews and Dissemination
  7. 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) RDInfo

RDInfo provides support services for researchers. These include:

  1. RDFunding - a service dedicated to providing up-to-date information on health-related research funding opportunities. The website holds details of over 5,000 awards from in excess of 1,600 organisations from across the globe.
    Website: http://rdfunding.org.uk/
  2. RDDirect - a telephone help-line for researchers at all levels. The team will find you the best possible source of advice, whether it is via the many useful links or by referral to one of the academic advisors with whom you can discuss your enquiry.
    Website: http://www.rddirect.org.uk/ 
  3. RDLearning - provides details of research related events available to health and social care processionals including research training courses and conferences. If you are running events you can submit the details and advertise them free of charge. 
    Website: http://www.rdlearning.org.uk/
  4. A Research Process Flowchart - maps the different stages of research in to 10 steps, providing hints, tips, checklists and links for researchers at all levels.
    Website: http://www.rdinfo.org.uk/flowchart/Flowchart.html

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/infrastructure_research_design_services.aspx