Curious about research and the difference it could make to the people you work with? Up to £20,000 is available to help as part of an NIHR ARC OxTV research internship. Our funded internships offer an introduction to all aspects and roles across clinical / social academic research, from trial design, data management and analysis…
The McPin Involvement Bulletin is packed full of exciting opportunities to get involved and participate in mental health research. With a focus on lived experience, the (roughly) monthly round-up includes everything we’re involved in or have been sent, from lived experience advisory groups to higher education courses and lots more. For example, February’s bulletin promoted…
Presentations from last September’s NIHR Academy Doctoral Training Camp have now been made more widely available, sharing useful tips for all those preparing research funding applications. Sessions include: • Lessons learned when applying for postdoctoral funding • The art of framing your research question • Get value and benefit from Patient and Public Involvement •…
We are a mental health research charity that believes research is done best when it involves people with relevant personal experience that relates to the research being carried out. We call this expertise from experience and integrate this into our work by: Delivering high-quality, collaborative mental health research and evaluations Helping shape the research of…
DATAMIND works to make the best use of the UK’s rich health records and datasets for mental health research. As part of this work, we are providing training and career development opportunities for early career researchers in the interdisciplinary area of mental health data science. We would like to know what career development opportunities would…
Practical training in digital public engagement & research dissemination skills for anyone interested in communicating mental health science. This is an online social media training day with The Mental Elf founder, André Tomlin. The cost is £75. The workshops are very interactive and problem-based. They help participants to: 1. Become familiar with the range of…
Free webinar from Oxford Academic Health Science Network exploring how patients and health/care professionals can best work together. Hear from patients, relatives and professionals with experience of children & young people’s mental health services. Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/inclusion-for-all-mental-health-children-young-people-tickets-228836936437
The Norwegian Kavli Trust Programme on Health Research will be awarding a total of NOK 20 million (£1.6million) to collaborative research projects addressing selected evidence gaps in child and adolescent mental health in 2022. The pre-proposal form is now open to applicants from Norway, Sweden, Finland or the United Kingdom. Find out more: https://kavlifondet.no/en/2021/12/call-for-proposals-kavli-trust-programme-on-health-research-2022/
The Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for England’s strategic plan for research is for all
nurses working in health and social care, whether they are already or thinking about
getting involved in research, colleagues in academia and the third sector and all those
who support research. It has been developed in partnership with stakeholders across
the health and care system including the Innovation, Research and Life Sciences Group
within NHS England and NHS Improvement specifically to ensure alignment across the
organisation.
Applications are now open for a new PhD Programme in Mental Health Research for Health Professionals. The programme will be based at King’s College London and funded by the Wellcome Trust. How to apply: https://kclmentalhealthphd.co.uk/apply Listen to a Mental Elf podcast on the programme.
Where can I find out about potential charity funding for my study? If you aren’t a well-established researcher, it can be very difficult to know where to start. Even if you are, mental health remains an underfunded area with far fewer charities with either open or themed calls compared to other health conditions. But there are starting points.
There are now over 500 researchers on our map of mental health research, including research-active clinicians, lived experience experts, and mental health academics. It’s great to see broad-based support for this resource which promotes cross-disciplinary collaborations in mental health research. The map of mental health research now has over 500 researchers listed from 20 different…
NIHR Programme Development Grants (PDG) invites proposals to address the challenges within adult social care and aim to improve the evidence base for adult social care. We are particularly interested in applications that include users of social care, focus on populations and communities with high support/care needs, or have historically been under-served by research activity, and…
The Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR) Competition 37 is now open for applications for research proposals to develop individual programmes of applied health research. The application deadline is 24 November 2021. Find out more: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/programme-grants-for-applied-research-competition-37/28718 NIHR Programme Development Grants (PDG) allow researchers to pull together a community to develop a grant application over a…
Fantastic UKRI funding opportunity for mental health researchers at any career stage: Apply for funding to help improve research in the field of ‘adolescence, mental health and the developing mind’ through: methodological innovation capability building. You can be researcher at any career stage who is: within the remit of AHRC, ESRC or MRC based in…
Research for Patient Benefit grants are great options for early and mid-career researchers who are looking for smaller pots of funding to consider. A real strength of the programme is the option to have co- principal investigators where an earlier career PI can be supported by a more experienced PI. RfPB is researcher-led and does not…
The Mental Health Research Matters team has launched a new section of their website dedicated to supporting Early Career Researchers. The new ECR hub brings together resources which have been developed by the UKRI mental health research networks. The new pages bring together videos, content, reflections and learnings from their series of fantastic ECR-focused events…
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What is the Research Design Service (RDS)? We asked that question to Louise Halbert, Business Manager at the NIHR Research Design Service (or RDS for short 🙂 ) She said… “The Research Design Service (RDS) supports researchers to develop applications to the National Institute for Health Research and other national funders of applied health and…
In a wide-ranging discussion, Professors Lucy Chappell and Cathy Creswell discuss the rationale behind the launch of a number of new NIHR funding schemes for mental health research that have been announced, including region-specific schemes. They go on to discuss the importance of research into co-occurring physical and mental health conditions, capacity issues in certain…
A new website promoting the value clinical academic careers is a useful resource for clinicians with interests in mental health research CATCH, the Clinical Academic Training & Careers Hub, aims to be a one stop shop for information on academic careers. The website promotes the role of clinical academics and supports health professionals beginning their…
Members of the Mental Health Research Incubator Advisory Group were behind the brand-new video series in which researchers and experienced public contributors discuss patient and public involvement (PPI) in mental health research. Dr Emma Černis and Dr Simon Hackett highlighted that support and direction with PPI was an area that mental health researchers would welcome…
Funded by NHS England and NHS Improvement in collaboration with the AHSN Network, SBRI Healthcare announces a Phase 3 funding competition open to innovations in an advanced stage of development. The aim is to accelerate these innovations into relevant health or social settings, and to facilitate the generation of evidence in Real World settings required by commissioners…
The NIHR Schools for Primary Care Research (SPCR), Public Health Research (SPHR) and Social Care Research (SSCR) have launched a new programme to address the challenges faced by front line health and care professionals. The Mental Health Practice Evaluation Scheme aims to support the three NIHR Schools work in partnership with professionals across a range…
The Mental Health Research Incubator is a broad-based community of mental health researchers at all career stages, mental health professionals, lived experience experts and public contributors to mental health research. We are committed to building mental health research capacity. Sign up to our newsletter on the homepage (big orange square, top right) to keep up…
Free online course This free open access course explains simply how medical treatments are discovered, tested and evaluated. If you’re curious about research, this might be a great place to start: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/clinical-research
‘Your path in research’ is a new NIHR campaign which is championing the careers of research-active health professionals. Although the content is mainly aimed at clinical professionals – or people who work with patients in clinical contexts, there are lots of useful resources we want to shout about for researchers who work in non-clinical contexts…
An all-day masterclass on how to improve your chances of success when applying for an NIHR Fellowship. This online event is open to any researcher, clinician and/or academic from across the South Central region (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Oxfordshire) who is considering an NIHR Fellowship application. Find out more and register via…
Online webinar from NIHR for those wishing to pursue an PCAF application. Webinar topic: Find out how to develop a competitive PCAF application The HEE/NIHR ICA Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship (PCAF) supports health and social care practitioners (excluding doctors and dentists) to develop a competitive doctoral fellowship application. The award funds a bespoke training and…
The Beneficial Changes Network is now open for a second round of transformation, innovation or improvement submissions from the frontline. This is a fantastic opportunity for mental health researchers and professionals with relevant experience. This round of submissions is not specific to changes which occurred during the pandemic, rather a general invitation for submissions in…
Nurse and senior research fellow at Leeds Beckett University, Dr Rachael Kelley, got some great chat going in her twitter week with us – good food for thought! Thanks Rachael. Here’s her twitter week to catch up on if you missed it! https://wakelet.com/wake/psxVd-_rrAhLjx2oIw3nA
Psychologist and researcher Dr Emma Černis highlighted her career inspirations did some research career myth-busting in her takeover week with us. Here’s her week to catch up on if you missed it! https://wakelet.com/wake/eb54uyRzTFn6VBvktRCwn
A huge new investment in mental health research offers significantly more funding opportunities for mental health researchers in the year ahead. The broad range of programmes will offer opportunities for both early and mid/late career researchers. They specifically target key geographical regions with the most need and include opportunities for researchers in fields not traditionally…
Mental health in the North of England Research for Social Care is running an additional call focusing on important social care questions around mental health in Northern England. This additional call is an important part of the Department of Health and Social Care’s ongoing interest in strengthening mental health research in less well supported areas….
Apply now for Launchpad Grants for mental health research from the Medical Research Foundation. The closing date is 27 September. The Medical Research Foundation’s Launchpad Grants will support early and mid-career researchers and clinical academics, whose research will increase understanding of mental health, and improve diagnosis, treatment and recovery. The funding should be used to…
This online workshop organised by the South Central Research Design Service is for researchers who are applying for a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Fellowship. The workshop covers the following NIHR schemes: • Doctoral Research Fellowship • Advanced Fellowship • Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship • Clinical Lecturer • Senior Clinical Lecturer There will be…
This workshop organised by the South-Central Research Design Service is for those who are interested in research but don’t know how to get going. It may be of particular interest to those applying for a research-related internship or pre-doctoral fellowship to start a clinical academic career. This workshop will cover: • What makes a good…
The Centre for Society and Mental Health (CSMH) has launched their new course in ‘Research methods: a practical guide to peer and community research’. In the 10-week practical course hosted on FutureLearn, participants will identify how to conduct their own research and develop their own ethical research project. It is designed to introduce research methods…
The NIHR Programme Development Grants (PDGs) programme has launched a funding call inviting proposals for research to address the challenge of mental health. Deadline: 4 August 2021 Find out more on the NIHR website: https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding/programme-development-grants-mental-health-call/27995
