PeCo is a peer coaching programme – but what is peer coaching? Bea Shelley, a trainee coach, explains… Coaching can be described as an exploratory and practical conversation that supports a ‘thinker’ to do some really good quality thinking on an issue, challenge or goal of their choosing, while the other person in the conversation…
This article is intended as an introduction to large language models (LLMs) and how they might be of use to mental health and addiction researchers. The use of AI is increasing in all walks of life and has been used in various ways in health research for several years now. Their use and implementation will…
Mental health and addiction research are broad fields with many different research areas and foci. One of the things we hear often, particularly from early career researchers and those getting into research for the first time, is that it can sometimes feel lonely and hard to meet researchers sharing your interests and passions. Luckily there…
The health and wider societal costs to society in England of illegal drug use is approximately £20 billion per year, with the harms from alcohol use estimated to cost another £25 billion. These addictions are responsible for huge societal damage, lead to a range of further physical and mental health conditions and to substantial loss…
The government wants to make sure that the NHS uses the latest innovations and creates a prime environment for industry to invest in the Life Sciences sector – its plans for that are summed up in a series of ‘missions’ for certain priority areas. Mental health is one of these areas, and so is addiction….
All mental health researchers are rightly concerned about conducting ethical, valuable and reproducible research. Open science is a movement towards making research not only totally transparent, but also accessible. This can only be a good thing for research, and particularly mental health research, right? In our latest explainer post we briefly talk about open science…
The Mental Health Mission funding supports the existing NIHR Mental Health Translational Research Collaboration of 18 UK research centres to boost research capacity in mental health research. That means the creation of relevant training and and better systems to support industry led research and investment across the UK. Researchers – look out for more opportunities coming up this year.
NIHR has launched a new campaign, working alongside the NHS, to encourage and support healthcare professionals and members of the NHS workforce to develop research as part of their career. These are not mental health research specific programmes, but are highly applicable to anyone in, interested in getting into, or wanting to support others to…
Getting a big grant or fellowship application together takes a very long time – often much longer than you might expect – certainly longer than the active application window. Many people have told us that it took them more than a year to get their application together. These funds are usually open to people from…
Our latest Explainer should be helpful to all mental health researchers, whether early, mid or even late career – what the heck is a narrative CV?! You may have heard that funders and research adjacent organisations are driving a shift towards a resume format called a ‘narrative CV’. This shift is supported by several…
Our GROW programme participants loved Dr Rachael Kelley’s tips on putting together a great funding application for mental health research so we’re really happy to be able to share Rachael’s valuable experience and advice on putting together a great research funding application with the wider community of mental health researchers. In this 16 minute presentation,…
Many of you will have heard of the NIHR Research Design Service – perhaps from our explainer post? – some of you might have used it. It provides help, support and advice to submit an application for research funding to the NIHR or another funder, but there the service ended. But no more! The NIHR…
The DSE award is a post-doctoral level funding opportunity from the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) aimed at supporting early to mid-career researchers in gaining specific skills and experience to underpin the next phase of their research career. In a change from previous rounds, applicants are no longer required to be Academy members.
The Incubator for Mental Health Research is delighted to announce the launch of our acronym jargon buster: an essential guide to common acronyms in UK mental health research for early career researchers, mental health professionals, and the mental health research community
In Part 3 of our NIHR funding series, we outline how the Research Design Service can help mental health researchers develop great research ideas into strong funding proposals.
In Part 2 of our NIHR funding series, we’re looking at the different NIHR Research Programmes and what they can offer to mental health research projects.
In Part 1 of our new NIHR funding series, we’re breaking down one of the most flexible and accessible funding programmes for early career mental health researchers: the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) programme.
We’re delighted to kick off the new year by announcing the relaunch of the Mental Health Research Community Map: an interactive map for mental health researchers to find collaborators and connect mental health research in the UK. The goal of the Mental Health Research Community Map is to build a collaborative, multidisciplinary directory of mental…
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…
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…
‘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…
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