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Mid-week roundup 17/9/24: events, funding, & opportunities in mental health research

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Mid-week roundup 17/9/24: events, funding, & opportunities in mental health research
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September

The NIHR Doctoral Local Authority Fellowship and Doctoral Clinical and Practitioner Academic Fellowship opens annually in September every year.

Doctoral Local Authority Fellowship (DLAF): three year full time award of which approximately 80% of time is spent working academically and 20% spent working in practice undertaking professional development.

Eligibility: individuals based within local authorities and supporting services who want to undertake a PhD and professional development within their current setting, but on sabbatical from their existing role.

Deadline: Thursday 5 December.

 

Doctoral Clinical and Practitioner Academic Fellowship (DCAF): three year full-time award funding registered health and care professionals (excluding doctors and dentists) to undertake a PhD by research and, concurrently, to undertake further professional development and practice.

Eligibility: health and social care professionals (excluding doctors or dentists) who are registered with an ICA eligible regulatory body

Deadline: Thursday 5 December.

 

Doctoral studentships focusing on dementia-related practice

Opportunity: Doctoral studentships - fifteen full-time PhD studentships focusing on dementia-related practice in England with support from the National Institute for Health and Care Research.

Who's it for: Aspiring PhD students aiming to conduct research relevant to dementia - see the listed projects for more details on available topics.

Organiser: NIHR

Eligibility: See individual project listings for more information on eligibility.

Deadline: Differs per project but studentships will start in October 2024.

 

18 September

NIHR ARCs national webinars: health inequalities

Opportunity: webinar

Who's it for? anyone interested in latest research from across the NIHR ARCs on the topic of health inequalities

Organiser: NIHR ARCs

Date and time: Wednesday 18 September, 1.00pm. Register here.

 

25 September

Patient and Public Involvement in the research cycle

Opportunity: webinar

Who's it for? Anyone interested in how to incorporate public involvement successfully in a research cycle.

Organiser: NIHR

Date and time: Wednesday 25 September, 1.30-2.30pmRegister here.

 

26 September

Application Development Award for Health and Care Professionals

Opportunity: Application Development funding -  funding of up to £150k for up to 10 ADA's to help support work needed to submit a competitive research application for larger funding

Who's it for: Health and Care professionals: Nurses, Midwives, Pharmacists, Healthcare scientists and Allied Health Professionals.

Organiser: NIHR

Eligibility: Applicants must hold or be about to be awarded a PhD or have equivalent demonstrable research knowledge and experience.

Deadline: Thursday 26 September, 1.00pm. 

 

27 September

Engagement grants for research into the scientific study of addiction and its treatment

Opportunity: funding for initiatives that increase the scientific understanding of addiction and its treatment.

Who's it for: varied projects have been successful in the past. Applicants are encouraged to be creative.

Organiser: Society for the Study of Addiction

Eligibility: lead applicant must be an SSA member or associate.

Deadline: Friday 27 September.

 

30 September

Medical Research Council (MRC) Board and Panel Member Recruitment

OpportunityVacancy – the chance to become a member of the Medical Research Council (MRC) boards and panels to help deliver MRC objectives across their portfolio of research.

Who's it for: Clinical and non-clinical researchers and research technical professionals.

Organiser: Medical Research Council

Eligibility: Looking for applicants with expertise in one or more of the following areas: genetics or genomics; clinical psychiatry; childhood and adolescent disorders; translational approaches; and experimental medicine.

Deadline: Monday 30 September.

 

Climate and Mental Health Award: Uncovering mechanisms between heat and mental health

OpportunityFunding – funding for research that brings together mental health and climate research, with a focus on heat as a stressor and anxiety, depression and/or psychosis. Applications will open week commencing 30th September.

Who's it for: Early-career, mid-career or established researchers.

Organiser: Wellcome Trust

Eligibility: Must include relevant lived experience expertise of anxiety, depression and/or psychosis on the project team, unless there is a strong justification for not doing so. Global funding, with the exception of mainland China.

Deadline: Tuesday 21 January 2025.

 

October

The application window for the NIHR Doctoral fellowships and NIHR Advanced fellowships opens twice a year in October (and April)

Doctoral fellowship: Three year full-time award that supports individuals to undertake a PhD in applied health or social care research.

Eligibility: completed any relevant pre-registration training (for clinical applicants); completed first degree for non-clinical applicants.

Advanced fellowship: two-five year funding for those at postdoctoral level.

Eligibility: Recently completed or about to be awarded a PhD but haven't yet established yourself as an independent researcher or established as an independent researcher but not yet an international leader in the field.

 

1 October

Online 6-week course: introduction to implementation science

Opportunity: training course

Who's it for: researchers, service user researchers, and health and social care practitioners, who want to develop their understanding of implementation science

Cost: variable £450 - £1400 depending on your role and context

Organiser: NIHR ARC South London and Maudsley

Booking deadline: Monday 23 September 2024 via the King's College London website.

 

2 October

Success in scaling: lessons from leaders in digital mental health

Opportunity: Webinar

Organiser: Wellcome Trust

Date and time: Wednesday 2 October, 5.00pm - 7.30pm

 

23 October

The British Academy Visiting Fellowships 2025

Opportunity: Fellowship - a postdoctoral fellowship of up to £40,000, enables academics from any country overseas to be based at a UK higher education or other research institution of their choice for up to six months.

Who's it for: Academics overseas looking to collaborate with colleagues in UK universities.

Organiser: The British Academy

Eligibility: To be eligible you need to:

  • be at postdoctoral level or above (or have equivalent research experience)
  • be on a permanent or fixed term contract
  • make contact with your host institution ahead of applying

Deadline: Wednesday 23 October, 5.00pm

 

Fellowship Application Day

Opportunity: Webinar, with the opportunity to have a one-to-one advisory session with RSS team members from 3pm.

Organiser: NIHR Research Support Service (RSS) in partnership with University of Southampton and Partners Hub.

Sign up here!

Date and time: Wednesday 23 October, 9.15am - 3.00pm.

 

24 October

Data Science Meeting

Opportunity: Forum for the mental health data science community to share findings and best practice.

Organiser: MQ and DATAMIND

Tickets cost £15 – sign up here.

Date and time: Thursday 24 October, 10.00am - 4.00pm, London

 

29 October

Different avenues for funding digital mental health innovation

Opportunity: Webinar

Organiser: Wellcome Trust

Date and time: Tuesday 29 October, 9.00-11.00am

November

1 November

Harkness fellowship

Opportunity: Fellowship - funding to spend a year in the US for internationally comparative healthcare research.

Who's it for? Mid-career researchers with a clinical or non-clinical healthcare policy background

Funder: jointly funded from NIHR and the Commonwealth fund

Deadline: Friday 1 November

 

6 November

Research for Patient Benefit programme

Opportunity: Research funding for high quality quantitative and qualitative research with a clear trajectory to patient benefit.

Who's it for: ECRs

Funder: NIHR

Deadline: Friday 6 November

 

12 November

The Churchill Fellowships 2024

Opportunity: Fellowship - funding to spend up to two months discovering new ideas and best practice among leading practitioners anywhere in the world. This can be in person or online, and the idea is that you gain insights that will help inform UK practice in your chosen area. Applications will open on 4 September.

Who's it for: UK citizens aged 18 or over, no particular qualifications.

Organiser: The Churchill Fellowship

Eligibility: Proposed topic areas must be beneficial to UK society, and must meet eligibility criteria.

Themes for 2025 are:

  • Arts and communities.
  • Caring for our natural environment.
  • Children and young people with experience of care.
  • Climate change.
  • Supporting engagement in education.
  • Promoting lifelong health.
  • Resilient economies and communities.
  • Tech for all.

Deadline: Tuesday 12 November.

 

27 November

CBT adapted for autistic adults with a mental health problem

OpportunityResearch Funding - Research question: What is the clinical and cost-effectiveness of a NICE-recommended high intensity cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) protocol which has been adapted for autistic adults compared to the un-adapted equivalent?

Who's it for? Researchers focused on autistic adults with symptoms of anxiety disorder or depressive disorder.

OrganiserNIHR

Eligibility: Researchers in the UK

Deadline: Wednesday 27 November, 1.00pm.

 

Earlier stopping of NAC following paracetamol overdose

OpportunityResearch Funding - Research question: What is the clinical and cost effectiveness and safety of stopping N-Acetylcysteine (NAC) infusions even earlier in those with paracetamol overdose presenting to NHS hospitals?

Who's it for? Researchers focused on post-overdose adult and young people's recovery.

OrganiserNIHR

Eligibility: Researchers in the UK

Deadline: Wednesday 27 November, 1.00pm.

 

December

5 December

Wellcome mental health award: Scaling digital mental health interventions

Opportunity: Research Funding

Organiser: Wellcome Trust

Eligibility: This is a funding call for team awards – applications must include a lead applicant and coapplicants, as well as people with lived experience of mental health problems. Global funding (with the exception of mainland China).

Full application deadline: Thursday 5 December

 

 

January

8 December

Research in Mental Health Nursing (HTA Programme)

OpportunityResearch Funding – This is a cross-programme funding opportunity aimed to fund high quality health and social care research to increase and improve the evidence base about mental health nursing and the mental health nursing workforce.

Who's it for? Researchers focused on post-overdose adult and young people recovery.

OrganiserNIHR

Eligibility: Researchers in the UK. As this is a cross-programme funding opportunity, research proposals must fall within the remit of one of the participating programmes:

  • Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) Programme
  • Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme
  • Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB)

Deadline: Wednesday 8 January, 1pm.

 

 

Associate Principal Investigator (PI) Scheme

Opportunity: Training opportunity - the Associate Principal Investigator Scheme aims to develop health and care professionals to become the Principal Investigators (PIs) of the future.

Who's it for: Healthcare professionals just starting their research career, particularly those who would not usually have the opportunity to take part in clinical research in their day-to-day role.

Organiser: NIHR

Eligibility: The scheme is open to any health and care professional willing to make a significant contribution to the conduct and delivery of a study at a local level over a period of six months.

 

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