ARE YOU READY TO:
- Work on your professional goals
- Be part of a network of early career mental health researchers who can support each other in 2022 and beyond
- Be supported to achieve your goals in a fully funded programme
- Develop your professional networks, skills and experience to work across sectors and disciplines and make a difference through mental health research.
TIMELINE:
Apply by: Midnight Tuesday 26 April 2022
Duration: June – December 2022 more detail
What can I expect from the GROW programme?
- 1 to 1 coaching to identify and work on your own professional development goals.
- Monthly virtual workshops including:
- Peer networking and support
- Opportunities to meet and connect with senior researchers/ PIs
- Workshops topics such as: Working across disciplines and sectors, research beyond academia, research and policy & practice, securing funding, building mental health research in underserved areas, collaboration with patients and the public in research, and looking to the future of mental health research
GROW is a fully funded programme that's accessible to early career researchers from across England. Most programme activities will be held virtually but we hope to also bring our researchers together face to face for at least one programme element in November 2022. We will be able to offer bursaries to allow researchers to attend any face to face elements (eg for travel, accommodation and/or childcare costs).
Who can apply to join the grow programme?
Essential criteria
- Working in England
- Early career researcher in any discipline or sector
- Passionate about applied mental health research that has the potential to improve lives
- Curious about working across disciplines and sectors
- Interested to meet peers and form new collaborations and support each other.
- Willing and able to dedicate the equivalent of 1.5 days per month between June to December 2022 to participate in programme activities.
- Be ready to reflect on your professional development and identify and work towards new professional goals.
Desirable criteria
We particularly welcome researchers from backgrounds, disciplines, and regions currently under-represented in mental health research. We are particularly interested to work with researchers who have completed a PhD or have equivalent research experience so we can bring together a group of researchers at a similar career stage.More detail on dates
Applicants may want to set aside the following dates in the diary:
- Virtual workshop 1 (zoom) – Monday 20th of June 2022
- Virtual workshop 2 (zoom) – Tuesday 19th of July 2022
The remaining sessions will resume after a summer break in August:
- Virtual workshop 3 – September 2022
- Virtual workshop 4 – October 2022
- Face to face workshop 5 – November 2022
- Virtual workshop 6 - December 2022
Frequently asked questions
Anyone working in a research role in England who feels they meet our essential criteria as described above can apply. However, we are particularly interested in applications from those who have completed a PhD or have equivalent research experience in any setting. The reason for this is that researchers have told us that they would like to be connecting and working with peers at a similar career stage.
All applicants can use the questions we ask in the application form to set out what they will bring to the programme and how they meet the criteria.
We and our partners have lots of activities planned in the year ahead for researchers at all levels and backgrounds so it is worth subscribing to our newsletter to keep in touch with events and opportunities.
No, if you are working in a mental health research role in any sector and based in England you can apply. For example: you might be working in a research role in a local authority, in a clinical setting, or for a charity or third sector organisation. We would love to have participants from a range of sectors participating in the programme.
No, in fact we are keen to have participants join this programme from a broad range of disciplines and professional backgrounds.
You can email the Mental Health Research Incubator team at mhresearch@psych.ox.ac.uk
The programme is completely free to attend.
GROW is funded under the NIHR’s mental health research initiative. As part of this initiative, GROW is funded via the NIHR School of Primary Care (SPCR) who received additional funding to develop and support a cohort of ECRs, prioritising regions and professional backgrounds where there are particular gaps.