Health and Care Research Wales is pleased to announce a new call for research proposals: the Health Research Fellowship award. Once again this will be managed by the Wessex Institute.
The following opportunity is now open for applications:
Health Research Fellowships
This scheme will close to applications on Wednesday 16 December 2015 at 1pm, late applications will not be considered.
Please visit the Health and Care Research Wales website for further information.
To access the online application form and register on the electronic grants management system (eGAS) please click here.
Remit of the call
The Health Research Fellowships aim to support individuals to become independent researchers and to undertake high-quality research. Applications are invited from individuals working across any sector or scientific discipline to undertake research which will benefit patients, public, service users and/or carers in Wales. The fellowship offers 3-years full-time funding (or 4 or 5 years part-time) to individuals who have no more than 36-months FTE postdoctoral research experience at the time of applying. Applicants are expected to show evidence of a clear commitment to a research career and demonstrate how the award will support the potential to become an independent researcher.
Projects supported under this scheme should aim to provide robust evidence with clear relevance to patients, the public, service users, carers and/or the organisation and delivery of effective healthcare in Wales. The scheme will support the early stages of intervention development where knowledge obtained from these preliminary studies will provide the underpinning evidence for future pilot testing and evaluation.
All applicants, including those wishing to undertake earlier translational research, should state clearly the likely impact of their findings in the short to medium term and how these will lead to improvements in healthcare or patient/public benefit.
As part of the Health Research Fellowship Call 2015, Health and Care Research Wales would particularly welcome applications addressing health and social care integration questions of relevance to public, patient and service user health and well-being. Assuming sufficient scientific quality, it is Health and Care Research Wales’ intention to make at least one fellowship award in this area. Further information is provided within the theme brief document found here