APCP SW Research Webinar 10th December 2020 - Introduction to Research Funding Pathways - Mary Cramp

APCP SW Research Webinar
               10th December 2020

  Introduction to Research Funding Pathways

                          Mary Cramp

        Associate Head, Research and Knowledge Exchange

NIHR ARC West Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professions Lead

Starting off…
                Many questions
                & many pathways

                - What do you want to do?

                - Is it about a problem related
                  to practice and/or your
                  development?

                - Why?

                - What do you want to
                  achieve?

                - Do you have a timescale?

Determining what is research…

                             Designed and conducted to generate generalisable or
     Research              transferable new knowledge to answer or refine relevant
                                  questions with scientifically sound methods

                               Designed and conducted to define or judge current
     Service
                               care/services and whether they are achieving their
    Evaluation
                                                 intended aims

                             Designed and conducted to examine practice/services
  Clinical Audit             against predetermined standards to inform delivery of
                                                  best care

                          Designed and conducted to measure care/services, take
    Quality
                          specific actions to improve and monitors ongoing
  Improvement
                          changes against agreed standards or benchmarks

  Twycross A & Shorten A (2014) Service evaluation, audit and research: what is the difference? Evid
  Based Nurs 17:3:65-66
  http://www.hra-decisiontools.org.uk/research/

Commonalities                 Differences
Addresses defined questions
                              Intent
Involves data collection to
                              Governance requirements
answer questions
                              Scale/scope of the work
Use of a systematic
approach/methodology
                              Patient choice
Similar methods can be used
                              Applicability
e.g., interviews, surveys,
clinical measures etc

Personal Training & Development
          Opportunities

NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs)
                   What are ARCs?
                   Partnerships between NHS providers,
                   universities, charities, local authorities,
                   Academic Health Science Networks and
                   other organisations
                   • To support applied health and care
                      research that responds to, and meets the
                      local needs
                   • To undertake implementation research
                      to increase the rate at which research
                      findings are implemented into practice
                    NIHR ARC South West Peninsula (PenARC)
                    NIHR ARC West
                    NIHR ARC Wessex

                    Provide free courses/training materials for
                    those working in health, public health,
                    research, and commissioning.

PenARC
https://www.arc-swp.nihr.ac.uk/training
e.g.
• Making Sense of Evidence Workshops
• PPI Advice Clinic
• Searching and Review Clinic

                                                     ARC West
https://arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/training-and-capacity-building/
e.g.
•  Introduction to service evaluation
•   Basic statistics and data interpretation
•   Writing for a lay audience
•   How to win at Twitter

HEE-NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Programme
https://www.nihr.ac.uk/explore-nihr/academy-programmes/hee-nihr-integrated-clinical-academic-
programme.htm

Research training awards for healthcare professionals, excluding
doctors and dentists, who wish to develop careers that combine
clinical research and research leadership with continued clinical
practice and professional development

Regional (South West)
• Internship & Bridging Awards

National
• Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship (PCAF)
• Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship (CDRF)
• Clinical and Senior Clinical Lectureships

HEE-NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Programme
Internship & Bridging Awards
                                                           Opens in Spring
Information about last year’s call (2020) is               2021…..
available on PenARC webpages.
https://www.arc-swp.nihr.ac.uk/training

Internship: For individuals early in their clinical academic career, thinking about
doing postgraduate academic study at master’s level and beyond, and applying for
the NIHR Pre-clinical academic Fellowship award (PCAF).

Pre-doctoral: For individuals who have plans to develop a doctoral fellowship for
NIHR Clinical Doctoral Fellowship (CDRF) or similar.

Post-doctoral: For individuals to advance an independent post-doctoral research
programme through a structured period of training and development.

HEE-NIHR Integrated Clinical Academic Programme

Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship (PCAF) Round 4:
Expected to open late Jan (28th)
Two distinct funding offers
1. Funding to support the submission of a doctoral fellowship application and to
undertake a programme of academic training at Masters level
2. Funding to support submission of a doctoral fellowship application and to
undertake a small amount of academic training at Masters level (PCAF Bridge)

                              Success rate in 2019 ~ 48%

Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship (CDRF):
Expected to open in Feb/March
•    Funding to undertake a PhD by research and further professional development and
    clinical practice.
                              Success rate in 2019 ~ 30%

Other opportunities to support doctoral programmes

More competitive funding opportunities for nurses, midwives and
AHPs through clinical research training fellowships e.g.
• Action Medical Research for Children
https://action.org.uk/research/apply-research-grant/apply-research-training-fellowship/research-training-
fellowship
Call for outline applications in summer 2021

• Medical Research Council
https://mrc.ukri.org/skills-careers/fellowships/clinical-fellowships/clinical-research-training-fellowship-crtf/
- Includes jointly funded awards with charities such as Cystic Fibrosis Trust, Epilepsy
   Research UK, Juvenile Diabetes, Muscular Dystrophy
Three calls per annum: next deadline January 2021(Success rate of 21%)

• British Heart Foundation
https://www.bhf.org.uk/for-professionals/information-for-researchers/what-we-fund/research-training-
fellowships-for-nurses-and-allied-health-professionals
Two calls per annum: next deadline April 2021

Research Project Funding

Professional Bodies/Charities
Physiotherapy Research Foundation:
•   4 schemes from £25,000 to £200,000
     • Scheme B: grants of up to £25,00 for novice researchers
     • Novice paediatric awards (as above) for research related to
        paediatric non-acquired brain injury and paediatric cerebral palsy
•   Annual call: usually March deadline

SPARKS:
• National funding call, open to independent researchers/promising early
  career researchers
• Focus on complex or rare diseases in 20/21

Local NHS Trusts
Some trusts have funding awards to support small research
projects (pump-prime funding) to generate information to
inform a further grant application

Research Capability Funding (RCF)

Contact your local Research and Innovation Dept to find out
about available support

NIHR Funding Streams

Learn by doing…
                  Have an idea?

                  ….. work as part of a team

                  • Link with other researchers/academics

                  • Contact your local NHS Research and
                    Innovation department

                  Other organisations to support health research

                  • Research Design Service

                  • Clinical Research Network

                  • Clinical Trials Unit

Final comments

• Consider the options and what pathway you want to
  pursue

• Network and seek appropriate support

• Explore what funders want and what the standard is
  for successful awards

• Allow time (++) to develop a competitive funding
  application - patience and perseverance required!

https://cahpr.csp.org.uk/

     Southern Central                       South West England
   sccahpr@soton.ac.uk                  CAHPRSouthWest@uwe.ac.uk

Mission:
• To develop AHP research, strengthen evidence of the
  professions’ value and impact for enhancing service user and
  community care, and enable the professions to speak with one
  voice on research issues, thereby raising their profile and
  increasing their influence.

For more information or make further
enquiries, please contact me

Mary Cramp

Email: mary.cramp@uwe.ac.uk