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Weekly roundup 01/09/23: events, funding, & opportunities in mental health research

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Weekly roundup 01/09/23: events, funding, & opportunities in mental health research
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SEPTEMBER

5 september

Building your postdoctoral career in mental health research - webinar

Opportunity: Webinar - more details to follow

Organiser: Mental Health Research and NIHR

Date: Tuesday 5 September, 12:30-13:30.

6 September

Refocus on Recovery 2023 international conference

Opportunity: In-person conference

Organiser: The Recovery Research Team at The Institute of Mental Health at the University of Nottingham

Location: Nottingham

Dates: Wednesday 6 and Thursday 7 September

Cost: £280

Starter Grants for Clinical Lecturers

Opportunity: Supplementary grant

Organiser: Academy of Medical Sciences

Eligibility: PhD or MD with medical background, holding a clinical contract in the UK

Deadline: 6 September 16:00hrs

8 September

MQ Mental Health and Wellcome Trust transdisciplinary grant

Opportunity: Short term grant

Organiser: MQ Mental Health

Eligibility: Researchers in any field currently not focused on mental health research

Deadline: 8 September 13:00hrs

BSA MedSco ECR Connecting Early Researchers in Medical Sociology

Opportunity: Webinar

Organiser: BSA MedSoc ECR

Cost: Free for BSA Members, non-members £5

Date: Friday 8 September, 10-12:00

12 September

Let’s talk about Mental Health: economic and policy perspectives

Opportunity: In-person day conference

Organiser: Oxford Psychiatry and Green Templeton College

Location: Oxford

Dates: 12 September 12-5pm

Cost: Free

13 September

RfPB Under-represented disciplines and specialisms highlight notice: Methodologists

Opportunity: Research Funding

Organiser: NIHR

Eligibility: Research methodologists in medical statistics, health economics, clinical trial design, operational research, modelling, bioinformatics, qualitative research, mixed methods and epidemiology

Deadline: 13 September 13:00hrs

MQ and DATAMIND Data Science meeting October 2023

Opportunity: Abstract submission for conference in November  - submit here

Organiser: MQ and DATAMIND

Eligibility: Anyone researching mental health data science

Deadline: extended to 13 September 13:00hrs

14 September

Mental Health Award: Understanding how anxiety and trauma related problems develop, persist and resolve

Opportunity: Research Funding - Informational webinar

Organiser: Wellcome

Location: online

Dates: 1300hrs Thurday 14 September

Learn more about the NIHR Advanced Fellowship

Opportunity: Research Funding - Informational webinar

Organiser: NIHR

Location: online - register here

Dates: 1300hrs Thurday 14 September

20 September

National Mental Health Programme Demand Signalling

Opportunity: Research funding, applications now open

Organiser: NIHR HSDR

Eligibility: Researchers in the UK

Deadline: Apply by 1pm on 20 September

National Learning Disability and Autism Programme Demand Signalling

Opportunity: Research funding, applications now open

Organiser: NIHR HSDR

Eligibility: Researchers in the UK

Deadline: Apply by 1pm on 20 September

23/91 Improving the Organisation and Quality of Health and Social Care Services in Rural and Coastal Areas of the UK

Opportunity: Research funding, applications now open

Organiser: NIHR HSDR

Eligibility: Researchers in the UK

Deadline: Apply by 1pm on 20 September

23/89 Series 1: Overcoming ethnicity-based inequities in access and experience of health and care services

Opportunity: Research funding, applications now open

Organiser: NIHR HSDR

Eligibility: Researchers in the UK

Deadline: Apply by 1pm on 20 September

20-21 September

Brain Connectivity Workshop

Opportunity: Virtual workshop

Organiser: Wellcome Trust and BCW

Location: Online

Dates: 20 September 09:30-18:00, 21 September 09:00-17:00

Cost: Free

21 September

Workshops: Engaging Audiences: The art of presenting and public speaking

Opportunity: Virtual workshop

Organiser: NIHR

Location: Online

Dates: 21 September 1300-1600hrs - register interest by 1 September

Cost: Free

Enhancing Well-Being for the Future

Opportunity: Research Funding

Organiser: CHANSE and NORFACE

Eligibility: Groups of researchers with PI's from multiple European countries covered by the scheme

Deadline: 21 September 14:00hrs CET

22 September

NIHR Three Schools’ Dementia Research Programme

Opportunity: Research Funding

Organiser: NIHR

Eligibility: PI must be a member of one of the NIHR three schools

Deadline: 22 September 16:00hrs 

26 September

Fellowship Application Day - RDS South Central

Opportunity: In-person information day

Organiser: NIHR RDS South Central

Location: Oxford

Eligibility: Anyone within the remit of the RDS South Central - Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight & Oxfordshire

Dates: 26 September

Cost: Free

29 September

NIHR Nursing & Midwifery NMAHP Post-Doctoral Colloquium

Opportunity: In-person Informational Colloquium

Organiser: NIHR Nursing and Midwifery Incubator

Location: London

Dates: Friday 29 September, register interest by end of July

Cost: Free - limited spaces

 

OCTOBER

4 October

Discover how qualitative research creates impact

Opportunity: Webinar 

Organiser: NIHR

Location: Online

Time: 4 October 1400-1530 hrs

5 October

Tackling parental loneliness in the first 1001 days

Opportunity: Networking event 

Organiser: Solutions for perinatal loneliness

Location: Online

Time: 4 October 1300-1630 hrs

10 October

Working on Other Peoples Research - AHP Research Webinar

Opportunity: Webinar 

Organiser: CAHPR 

Location: Online

Time: Tuesday 10 October, 17:30-19:00

16 October

Transdisciplinary Placements in Public Health Research

Opportunity: Research 'work experience' 

Organiser: NIHR SPHR

Eligibility: People in professions currently not associated with public health in any way.

Deadline: Monday 16 October, 4pm

17 October

NIHR PHR informational webinar - sign up via funding programme of interest

Opportunity: Webinar 

Organiser: NIHR PHR

Location: Online

Time: Tuesday 17 October, 11:15hrs

18 October

NIHR Research Programme for Social Care

Opportunity: Informational Webinar

Organiser: NIHR

Location: Online - register here

Time: Wednesday 18 October, 11:00 -13:00 hrs

25 October

South West NHSE-NIHR Integrated Clinical and Practitioner Academic (ICA) programme awards

Opportunity: Short Term Research Funding

Organiser: NIHR ARC South West

Eligibility: All healthcare related professionals within the remit of ARC SW.

Deadline: Apply by 1200hrs 25 October

31 October

UKRI Creating Opportunities Evaluation Development Fund

Opportunity: Research Funding

Organiser: UKRI

Eligibility: UK based researchers looking to increase opportunities and reduce disparities in economic, health and social outcomes for people and places across the UK

Deadline: Tuesday 31st October 14:00hrs

Senior Research Leader - Nursing & Midwifery Programme

Opportunity: Research Funding

Organiser: NIHR

Eligibility: Be a nurse or midwife registered at an institution that receives DHSC funding

Deadline: Tuesday 31st October.

Webinars on: 27 September 2023- 14:00 - 15:00 and 5 October 2023- 11:00 - 12:00

 

NOVEMBER

1 November

Early Career Researcher Bridge Fund

Opportunity: Short Term Research Funding

Organiser: Alzheimers Research UK

Eligibility: Non-tenured ECR established in dementia research

Deadline: Apply by 1700hrs , Wednesday 1 November.

1-2 November

Emergency Care Incubator Symposium

Opportunity: In person event

Organiser: NIHR Emergency Care Incubator

Location: University of the West of England, Bristol- register interest here

Date/Time: 1 & 2 November

Cost: Free

14 November

Mental Health Award: Understanding how anxiety and trauma related problems develop, persist and resolve

Opportunity: Research Funding

Organiser: Wellcome

Eligibility: multi-focal researchers with work in low and middle income countries

Deadline: Apply by 1700hrs , Tuesday 14 November.

23 November

Forensic mental health aspects of intellectual disability and autism: An update

Opportunity: Virtual CPD training

Organiser: The Royal Society of Medicine

Location: Online

Date/Time: 23 November,  09:15-16:45hrs

Cost: Cost varies by RSM membership

29 November

This. Space 2023

Opportunity: Virtual conference

Organiser: This.Institute

Location: Online - register here

Date/Time: 29 & 30 November

Cost: Free

23/97 Pairing a child or young person in care with a non-related adult for regular social meetings and skills training

Opportunity: Research Funding

Organiser: NIHR

Eligibility: researchers in NI and Scotland should contact NIHR about eligibility to apply

Deadline: Apply by 1300hrs , Wednesday 29 November.

23/40 Supporting the mental health of birth mothers at risk of recurrent care proceedings

Opportunity: Research Funding

Organiser: NIHR

Eligibility: researchers in NI and Scotland should contact NIHR about eligibility to apply

Deadline: Apply by 1300hrs , Wednesday 29 November.

DECEMBER

7 December

NIHR Doctoral Local Authority Fellowship (DLAF) scheme Round 2 - opens 5 September

Opportunity: PhD Funding for local authority employees 

Organiser: NIHR

Eligibility: Local authority employees looking for undertake a PhD during a sabbatical from current role.

Deadline: 7 December. Competition opens 5 September

12 December

23/86 Reducing health inequalities related to ethnicity by influencing the wider determinants of health

Opportunity: Research Funding

Organiser: NIHR PHR

Eligibility: Researchers looking to address the wider determinants of health for ethnic minorities in the UK

Deadline: Tuesday 12 December, 13:00hrs. Webinar on October 17th 11:15 - 12:30hrs

23/82 Suicide prevention in high risk groups

Opportunity: Research Funding

Organiser: NIHR PHR

Eligibility: Researchers studying interventions for groups with high risk of suicide

Deadline: Tuesday 12 December, 13:00hrs. Webinar on October 17th 11:15 - 12:30hrs

23/83 Workforce health

Opportunity: Research Funding

Organiser: NIHR PHR

Eligibility: Researchers studying interventions for organisations to improve workforce physical and mental health

Deadline: Tuesday 12 December, 13:00hrs. Webinar on October 17th 11:15 - 12:30hrs

29 December

Public Health Research Programme Rapid Funding Scheme

Opportunity: Research Funding

Organiser: NIHR

Eligibility: Researchers looking for funds to conduct rapid baseline data collection, as well as other feasibility work, prior to intervention implementation, for unique, time-limited opportunities

Deadline: Friday 29th December 2023

 

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