Monthly Archives: June 2019

BBSRC data-intensive bioscience Regional Workshops (register by 28 June) and Community Questionnaire (complete by 10 June)

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Dear All

BBSRC is conducting a review of data-intensive bioscience research in 2019.

As part of the review, two regional workshops are planned:

  • London on 4 September 2019
  • Manchester 18 September 2019

If you wish to participate in one of the workshops, please complete the Expression of Interest by 28 June 2019

https://bbsrc.ukri.org/news/people-skills-training/2019/190529-n-data-intensive-bioscience-review-expressions-of-interest-for-community-workshops/

In addition the community questionnaire on data-intensive bioscience research which will inform the workshops will remain open for submissions until 10 June 2019. It can be accessed here:

https://app.keysurvey.co.uk/f/1263851/128b/

The questions in the community questionnaire can be seen in advance here:

https://bbsrc.ukri.org/about/reviews/scientific-areas/review-data-intensive-bioscience/

Expression of Interest for Nomination to apply for an NIHR Research Professorship, C/D Monday 22 July 2019, 1pm

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NIHR Research Professorships Expression of Interest Form NIHR Research Professorships call summary

Expression of Interest for Nomination to apply to

  • NIHR Research Professorship Round 10
  • NIHR Global Health Research Professorship Round 3

Dear All

Each year the NIHR runs an NIHR Research Professorship call. We may nominate a maximum of two nominations. Where two nominees are put forward for consideration, at least one of these must be female.

This year’s call (Round 10) is likely to be launched in September with a closing date in November.

As these are highly competitive and complex applications we need to select our nominees in advance of the call being issued, and possibly even for next year’s call, to give nominees sufficient time to craft their applications and seek the required institutional commitment from the University and their NHS partner.

Occasionally NIHR also runs an NIHR Global Health Research Professorship call.

We think there may be another round (Round 3) this year, so we are also asking for people to express an interest in applying to this call

Those wishing to put themselves forward for this year’s nomination and/or next year’s nomination for the Research Professorship/Glbal Health Research Professorship are requested to supply:

  • A completed Expression of Interest Form (EoI form attached);
  • up to 3 pages of text to cover the study vision; your relationship with your proposed NHS partner; and your prior links and contribution to the NIHR;
  • a short CV (up to 4 pages) to include your publication statistics and H index; any previous significant awards/fellowships and measures of esteem.

Please send the above documents to darren.airey@ncl.ac.uk and cc in gwen.averley@ncl.ac.uk by 1pm on Monday 22 July 2019

Some brief details of the call are below and a summary of the call is attached but please consult the guidance for the previous rounds:

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/our-research-community/NIHR-academy/nihr-training-programmes/nihr-research-professorships/nihr-research-professorships-round-9.htm

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/our-research-community/NIHR-academy/nihr-training-programmes/nihr-research-professorships/global-health-research-professorships.htm

The proposal must have clear potential for benefitting patients and the public.
The research can involve: patients; samples or data from patients; people who are not patients; populations; health technology assessment; or health services research.

NIHR Research Professorships are aimed at those undertaking translational research and do not support basic research or work involving animals or their tissue.

Applicant eligibility

  • For health researchers and methodologists with an outstanding research record of clinical and applied health research (including social care research) and its effective translation for improved health
  • Should display a steep career trajectory over the last 5-10 years, on course to becoming the country’s most outstanding researchers
  • Currently at consultant grade or equivalent, and be at an early career stage having spent no more than 5 years at their current level of seniority at the time of application (whether as Professor, Reader, Senior Lecturer/Fellow, Clinician Scientist, Group Leader or similar
  • They should not already be established leaders in their field (i.e. excludes NIHR Senior Investigators)

Nominees should be working in the fields of experimental medicine, public health medicine, health services research or methodological research

NIHR has expressed a wish for more applications from non-medical healthcare professions, viz.:

Health economists, medical statisticians, methodologists, epidemiologists, nurses, midwives, allied health professionals (speech & language therapists, occupational therapists etc.), dentists, health care scientists, social scientists, clinical psychologists, analytical chemists, anthropologists, pharmacists, research scientists, nutritionists, medical physicists, medical engineers, radiographers, bio-mechanical engineers, bio-statisticians and bio-informatics.

Though for those not directly involved in delivering clinical service, they will need to demonstrate how they will link with clinical colleagues in order to deliver their research for the benefit of patients.

NIHR Research Professors will be funded to continue to spend up to 2 sessions per week delivering service directly or, if the nominee is not a health professional, an equivalent time collaborating with others to facilitate service delivery.

If any queries please consult gwen.averley@ncl.ac.uk

Creating a DMP workshop – 10 July 12-1pm

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Workshop on creating a data management plan (MRC & BBSRC focus) for researchers on Wednesday 10th July.

Workshop overview

Research funders are increasingly requiring evidence of adequate and appropriate provisions for data management and curation in new grant applications. This workshop will introduce how to create a data management plan (DMP) to communicate a project’s approach to managing research data to the funder and collaborators.  This is also beneficial for the project as it establishes the framework and resources to support researchers and the data, which translates to better time management and lower costs during project work.

At the end of the workshop participants will be able to:

– Understand the wider research data management landscape

– Appreciate funder DMP requirements

– Define what to include in a DMP

– Be able to develop a project specific DMP

– Understand what tools the university provide to support research data management (particularly data.ncl)

– Know where to find research data management support

Booking form for interested colleagues: https://elements.ncl.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=873

Key details:

Time:  12- 1 pm

Date: Wednesday 10th July

Location: Devonshire, G. 20

(The booking is being run through OD’s new LMS and this requires a cost centre to be included as part of the booking process.)

I also run two other DMP workshops with a slightly different funder focus on Wed 26th June 12-1pm (https://elements.ncl.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=875) and Wed 3rd July 12-1pm (https://elements.ncl.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=876) that researchers can attend if the date is more suitable as the core content is the same.