Building capacity for clinicians to develop services for children with acquired brain injuries (ABI) Acquired brain injury (ABI) is a leading cause of disability in the UK, especially amongst children. However, there are major gaps in research and in national health service provision for the children, young people and their […]
Introduction to Evaluation Online Course
Introduction to Evaluation Online Course 7th May – 4th June 2019 Do you need to demonstrate the impact of projects in your organisation? Do you want to improve the implementation of your programmes? Are you tasked with carrying out an evaluation, but don’t know where to start? NIHR CLAHRC North […]
NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) Programme Challenge Awards Call 9 – Real World Implementation
NIHR Invention for Innovation (i4i) Programme Challenge Awards Call 9 – Real World Implementation The NIHR i4i Challenge Awards Call 9 is inviting applications for the assessment of medtech innovations in healthcare settings. The aim is to shorten the evidence gap between the safety/preliminary efficacy typical of a newly CE […]
Funding available for research to improve health care quality in the UK
Funding available for research to improve health care quality in the UK The Health Foundations £1.6m Insight Research Programme 2019 is now open for outline proposal applications – until 16 May 2019. They are inviting researchers to submit proposals for research that advances the development and use of data from national clinical […]
Competitions now open – Doctoral and Advanced Fellowships
Competitions now open – Doctoral and Advanced Fellowships The NIHR Fellowships support individuals with the potential and on a trajectory to become future leaders in NIHR research. Now with increased flexibility and options to include clinical time, they support people at various points of their development from initial pre-doctoral training […]
Quality Improvement in Practice Conference
Quality Improvement in Practice Conference – Workshop Submissions The Royal College of Psychiatrists’ Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI) are holding their annual Quality Improvement in Practice conference at the Royal College of Psychiatrists on 18 November this year. The day will focus on sharing successful examples of quality improvement (QI) […]
Recruitment open for NIHR Academy Associate Dean posts
Recruitment open for NIHR Academy Associate Dean posts The NIHR Academy is recruiting two Associate Dean posts to support the existing NIHR Academy Dean with the development and delivery of the Infrastructure & Capacity Building Structures and Integrated Pathways programmes of work. Each role will focus on a dedicated programme […]
Public committee member opportunites at the NIHR
Public committee member opportunites at the NIHR The NIHR involves patients and members of the public in the work of the advisory committees that prioritise and recommend health and social care research applications for funding. Two of the national coordinating centres, Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) and NIHR Evaluation, Trials and […]
Arts and Humanities Interdisciplinary Seminar 2019: Exploring the Medical Humanities
Arts and Humanities Interdisciplinary Seminar 2019: Exploring the Medical Humanities This interdisciplinary seminar series will critically interrogate the recent turn to the body in the humanities, and the orientation towards ‘medical humanities’. It is co-ordinated by Dr Harriet Cooper, who holds a PhD in medical humanities (critical disability studies) and […]
A toolkit for prison-university partnerships
A toolkit for prison-university partnerships The Prisoners’ Education Trust and Prison University Partnerships in Learning (PUPiL) have published a toolkit to support the continued growth and development of partnerships between prisons and universities. It shares examples of successful models – including many that use creative arts – and is designed […]