Alzheimer’s Society – Implementation Grants
The Alzheimer’s Society uses the Implementation grant scheme to move tested evidence based interventions into the real world setting, to translate research into practice. By doing this the Society aims to maximise the benefits of research outputs for people affected by dementia more rapidly. Research-based interventions supported through the implementation grant scheme will have potential to be delivered within the real world in a sustainable way.
Award
Applicants can apply for grants of up to £400,000 over 36 months that will either:
- enable the scale-up of evidence based interventions that have been shown to improve care and are ready to be implemented at a larger scale, or;
- lay the foundations for the scale-up of evidence based interventions; testing the feasibility of bringing dementia research knowledge into the real world.
All applications must:
- demonstrate involvement of appropriate end users of the research in the development and delivery of the proposal
- proposals must demonstrate sufficient evidence, for example from up to date systematic reviews, that the intervention is ready to be moved into the outside world.
- use methods for enabling change that are grounded in theory.
Eligibility
- Principal investigators must have a contract of employment with the host university that exceeds the planned finish date of the research by at least 12 months.
- The Principal Investigator must work in partnership with a decision maker from the organisation where the implementation activity will be taking place and this decision maker must be a named co-applicant on the proposal
- At least one person affected by dementia must be listed as a co-applicant on the project. This can be either someone with dementia, a carer of someone with dementia or a close family member of someone with dementia.
- Applications must also have at least one team member with a strong track record in change management, measurement and an understanding of implementation strategies.
- It is important to underpin proposals with an implementation science framework and incorporate independent rigorous evaluation in order to generate robust evidence of impact and learning. Successful projects will, therefore, need to deliver an evaluation of their implementation work.
- Depending on the nature of the intervention, project teams may need to include an organisation that can influence wider community, social or health care practice and opinion.
- Proposals must demonstrate sufficient evidence, that the intervention is ready to be moved into the outside world, for example citing data from up to date systematic reviews, relevant pilot/feasibility studies or initial efficacy and/or effectiveness research.
Deadline for Outline applications: 12pm Friday 14th October
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