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NIHR: Public Health Research Call

NIHR has released the next cut-off date for outline proposals for its Public Health Research call. The deadline is 11th January 2010. Following this proposals will be assessed and shortlisted applicants will have 8 weeks to complete a full bid:
The programme evaluates public health interventions, providing new knowledge on the benefits, costs, acceptability and wider [...]

NIHR Calls For Health Technology Research Topics

If you’ve got an idea for future research topics for the Health Technology Assessment programme, run by the National Institute for Health Research, you can submit them using the electronic form on their website:
Suggest a research topic
The HTA programme commissions research on the effectiveness of different healthcare treatments and tests through a variety of funding [...]

NIHR Funding: Tips from East Midlands Research Design Service

I attended a very useful meeting yesterday led by the NIHR-funded East Midlands Research Design Service (RDS). The local RDS is there to help researchers in the region increase the quality and success rates of bids to NIHR programmes. They specialise in bids to Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB), but are willing to comment and advise [...]

The NHS Research Passport: An Overview

Do you undertake research in the NHS? Does your research involve contact with NHS patients or service users? Will your research have a direct impact on patient care?
The NHS Research Passport is a new system designed to streamline the approval process for researchers. The main benefit is that researchers now usually require only one set [...]

Qualitative Research Analysis Training at CCAWI

Title: Qualitative Research Analysis
Location: CCAWI- Room MC 3208, University of Lincoln
Date: 5th June 2009, 10am
Description: A one day workshop for health researchers provided by the NIHR Research Design Service for the East Midlands.
To register please complete the registration form and return to: Stacey Corlett at Clinical Governance, Audit & Research, Cross O’Cliff Court, Lincoln, LN4 [...]

Africa Caribbean Pacific Science and Technology Programme

UK Research Office has news of a scheme which will fund networks, establish research-industry links and engage in relevant policy consultation.

The ACP (Africa Caribbean Pacific) Science and Technology Programme will facilitate the creation or strengthening of frameworks for regional and sub-regional co-operation, and of inter-institutional co-operation in the ACP region in the field of science [...]