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Weekly roundup 31/3/23: events, funding, & opportunities in mental health research

Welcome to your weekly roundup of funding, events, and webinars we’ve shared with our followers over on the Mental Health Research Incubator Twitter. Here's what's coming up on the horizon for mental health research:

March 31, 2023

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APRIL

6 April

Finding the right treatment for the right people at the right time – promoting stratification in global mental health research

Opportunity: Webinar

Organiser: Wellcome Trust

Dates: Thursday 6 April

Cost: Free

11 April

ARC Northwest London Improvement Leader Fellowship

Opportunity: Career development

Organiser: NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Northwest London

Eligibility: NHS and partner organisation staff and others with a role in health and healthcare

Deadline: Apply by 4pm Tuesday 11 April

NIHR School for Primary Care Research PhD Fellowship

Opportunity: PhD Fellowship

Organiser: Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC) at the University of Bristol

Eligibility: Those with a relevant first degree who want to develop a career in primary care research

Deadline: Apply by Friday 14 April

18 April

Virtual taster lecture: Understanding childhood trauma

Opportunity: Webinar

Organiser: UCL Division of Psychology and Language Sciences and the Anna Freud Centre

Dates: Tuesday 18 April

Cost: Free

19 April

Mental Health Research for All Programme

Opportunity: Career development fellowships and funding awards

Organiser: NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North Thames

Eligibility: Mental health staff and researchers working in the North Thames region

Deadline: Apply by Wednesday 19 April

Community engagement in health research: menopause and more

Opportunity: Webinar

Organiser: Centre for Academic Primary Care (CAPC), Bristol

Dates: Wednesday 19 April

Cost: Free

20 April

UKRI Policy Fellowships 2023

Opportunity: Collaborative research funding

Organiser: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

Eligibility: Academics who hold a PhD or equivalent research experience, as well as relevant subject matter or methodological expertise. Experience of working in a policy and knowledge exchange context is beneficial. Policy fellowship funding opportunities with a UK or devolved government host are aimed at early to mid-career academics. Fellowships with a What Works Network centre host are open to all career stages.

Deadline: Apply by 4pm on Thursday 20 April

Maintaining Momentum from doctoral to postdoctoral research: a workshop for nurses, midwives, allied health professionals and their managers

Opportunity: In-person workshop

Organiser: NIHR Research Design Service South Central

Location: Southampton, Oxford, Portsmouth

Dates: Thursday 20 April

Cost: Free

Engaging with policy makers: can your research influence policy?

Opportunity: Webinar

Organiser: NIHR and Professor Annette Boaz, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

Dates: Thursday 20 April

Cost: Free

21 April

Benefits of the Outdoors on Well-Being & Mental Health

Opportunity: Webinar

Organiser: The Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health

Dates: Friday 21 April

Cost: £30 ACAMH members, £45 non-members, £5 ACAMH undergraduate and masters members

NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) highlight notice: nurses and midwives

Opportunity: Research funding

Organiser: NIHR

Eligibility: All applications to this highlight notice must have a nurse or a midwife in an early stage of their research career. They can apply as either the lead or joint-lead applicant together with a senior colleague fulfilling the other role. Both the lead and joint-lead applicants must have a background in nursing or midwifery.

Deadline: Expressions of interest should be submitted by 21st April, with complete applications due by 1pm Wednesday 17 May.

25 April

NIHR School for Primary Care Research Post-Doctoral Fellowships

Opportunity: Post-doctoral Fellowship

Organiser: NIHR School for Primary Care Research

Eligibility: Applicants should have a strong academic record and wish to develop a career in primary care research. Applications are particularly sought from allied health professionals.

Deadline: Apply by 1pm Tuesday 25 April

ECR workshop: Data Management in Mental Health Research

Opportunity: In-person workshop for early career researchers

Organiser: Datamind and MQ Mental Health Research

Location: London

Dates: Tuesday 25 April

Cost: £15

NIHR Fellowships: Developing a competitive application

Opportunity: Webinar for researchers and health professionals who want to develop and submit an NIHR fellowship application

Organiser: NIHR Research Design Service Yorkshire and Humber

Dates: Tuesday 25 April

Cost: Free

Health Inequalities: from evidence to action virtual conference

Opportunity: Online conference

Organiser: The King's Fund

Dates: Tuesday 25 April – Wednesday 26 April

Cost: From £150

26 April

Psychosis; Schizophrenia, Hearing Voices, and the Language of ‘Madness’

Opportunity: Webinar

Organiser: The Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health

Dates: Wednesday 26 April

Cost: £30 ACAMH members, £45 non-members, £5 ACAMH undergraduate and masters members

MQ and DATAMIND's Data Science Meeting April 2023

Opportunity: In-person conference

Organiser: MQ Mental Health Research and DATAMIND

Location: London EC2N 2DB

Dates: Wednesday 26 April

Cost: £15

28 April

RSTMH 2023 Early Career Grant

Opportunity: Research grant for early career researchers

Organiser: The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Eligibility: Early career researchers and global health professionals based anywhere in the world, who have not had research funding of £5,000 or more in their own name before. Projects can be on any topic related to tropical medicine and global health, from across the research spectrum of lab, translation, implementation and policy, and should take up to one year.

Deadline: Apply by 9am on Friday 28 April

30 April

Wellcome Data Science Ideathon

Opportunity: Data science competition with cash and research grant prizes

Organiser: The Wellcome Trust

Eligibility: Teams of 3-5 postgraduate students or researchers based at a UK Higher Education Institution or research institute with experience in data science and climate and health, mental health, or infectious disease.

Deadline: Apply by Sunday 30 April

MAY

1 May

ARC East Midlands PhD studentships in applied health and social care

Opportunity: PhD studentship

Organiser: Applied Research Collaboration East Midlands

Eligibility: PhD offer holders at a university in the East Midlands

Deadline: Apply by Monday 1 May

3 May

Collaboration across health care communities: New relationships and alliances

Opportunity: In-person conference

Organiser: NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Northwest London (NIHR ARC NWL)

Location: St Paul's Centre, Hammersmith

Dates: Wednesday 3 May

Cost: Free

NIHR Three Research Schools Seminar Series: Collaborating to develop holistic health support for people living with severe mental illness

Opportunity: Webinar

Organiser: NIHR School for Primary Care Research

Dates: Wednesday 3 May

Cost: Free

9 May

Whole School Approach to Mental Health – Pedagogy in practice

Opportunity: Webinar

Organiser: The Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health

Dates: Tuesday 9 May

Cost: Free

11 May

JCPP Advances 2023 Lectures ‘What the research tells us; Anxiety, Neurodiversity, Suicide, and Genetics’

Opportunity: Webinar

Organiser: The Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health

Dates: Thursday 11 May

Cost: Free

16 May

Primary Care Mental Health Research Conference 2023: Digital health and remote care

Opportunity: In-person conference

Organiser: The Centre for Academic Primary Care at the University of Bristol

Location: Bristol

Dates: Tuesday 16 May

Cost: £50

17 May

Child & Youth Mental Health Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Opportunity: Webinar

Organiser: Universities of Manchester, Keele, Exeter and the McPin Foundation

Dates: Wednesday 17 May

Cost: Free

23 May

Mental Health Intervention for Children with Epilepsy

Opportunity: Webinar

Organiser: The Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health

Dates: Tuesday 23 May

Cost: Free

JUNE

7 June

Wellcome Trust Mental Health Award: Finding the right treatment, for the right people, at the right time for anxiety and depression

Opportunity: Research funding

Organiser: Wellcome Trust

Eligibility: Researchers worldwide

Deadline: Apply by Wednesday 7 June

9 June

NIHR School for Primary Care Research PhD studentships in primary care

Opportunity: PhD studentship

Organiser: Queen Mary, University of London

Eligibility: Postgraduates with a first or upper-second class degree in a subject relevant to primary care

Deadline: Apply by Friday 9 June

22 June

7th UK Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) Research Conference: 'PROMs Across the Lifespan'

Opportunity: In-person conference

Organiser: University of Sheffield and NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Yorkshire and Humber

Location: University of Sheffield

Dates: Thursday 22 June

Cost: £50

30 June

HEE/NIHR Clinical Scholar Programme

Opportunity: Pre- and Post-Doctoral Bridging Programmes

Organiser: University of Nottingham

Eligibility: Clinicians in the East Midlands area who have completed a master degree or equivalent postgraduate qualification (Pre-Doctoral Programme) and clinicians in the East Midlands area who have been awarded a PhD (Post-Doctoral Programme)

Deadline: Apply by 5pm Friday 30 June