Faculty PhD Studentships 2018: Application Process
Further to my recent notification of seven PhD studentship opportunities within this faculty, I am pleased to announce that a further studentship has been added to the competition. This studentship is funded by the Dr W. E. Harker Foundation and will support research in the field of surgical science. Assessment criteria for this additional studentship will be similar to those circulated previously.
This further studentship has been added to the application form, which can be found here:
https://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=2279
Please note that all these studentships are only intended to support non-clinical PhD candidates with an RCUK-level stipend and bench fees of £5,000 per year. The payment of tuition fees is restricted to the home/EU student rate. The closing date for receipt of applications is 5 January 2018 at 5.00 pm.
Please contact me if you have any queries.
With best wishes
John
Professor John A Kirby
Dean of Postgraduate Studies
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Applications to Bridging Funding Scheme
Please note that the most up to date Bridging application form can be found here: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/medicalsciences/research/wellcome/#bridgingfundingscheme
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MRC-led DfID/ESRC/MRC/Wellcome Trust-funded
Health Systems Research Initiative (HSRI) Call 5
https://www.mrc.ac.uk/funding/browse/hsri-5/health-systems-research-initiative-call-5/
Health Systems Research Grants – Outline proposals & HSRI Foundation Grants
Timeline: Research Grants
Outline Grant call opens 8 November 2018
Outline Grant call deadline 30 January 2018
Invitation to submit full proposal June 2018
PI response to reviewers’ comments September 2018
Full stage panel meeting October 2018
Timeline: Foundation Grants
Foundation call opens in Je-S 7 March 2018
Foundation call deadline 5 June 2018
Foundation call panel meeting October 2018
There will be an annual call under this initiative until 2021
This programme addresses key questions on strengthening and improving health systems in developing countries.
The programme’s aims are to fund methodologically rigorous, high quality research that will:
- Generate evidence on how to strengthen and improve health systems for people living in low- and middle-income countries.
- Use a health systems approach to inform the delivery of evidence-based interventions or structural changes. Proposals must demonstrate how interventions relate to and affect wider elements of a health system such as governance, financing, health workforce, information systems, service delivery etc.
- Provide evidence that is of direct relevance to decision makers and practitioners in the field.
Proposals must situate this clearly-defined challenge within an understanding of the broader health system linkages and describe how and why findings from the project have the potential to improve the health of people living in low and middle-income countries.
Funding is available for research only; we will not fund the routine delivery of health services.
Projects with Principal Investigators (P-Is) from LMICs are strongly encouraged and all proposals must include Co-Investigators from the LMIC in which the research is taking place.
Principal investigators can be based in the UK or any LMIC.
it is not permitted for the same person to be PI on more than 2 proposals submitted to this call
Research Grants
£4m is available to fund between 5-10 projects of usually up to 3 years’ duration, with a maximum of 5 years’ duration.
Foundation Grants These will typically be for between 12-18 months, with a maximum of 24 months and up to £200,000 fEC.
The purpose of a Foundation Grant is to conduct preliminary studies needed before a Research Grant proposal can be designed or to explore innovative health systems topics, under researched areas or creative approaches that have the potential to be developed further.
A list of example questions that could be addresses as Research Grants or Foundation Grants are on the call description web page
The funders welcome multidisciplinary applications with strong input from social scientists working in health policy, psychology, anthropology, geography, sociology, economics and/ or political economy and applicants should also ensure they embed research within relevant theoretical frameworks, as evidenced by references, to strengthen applications. Teams should also ensure engagement of researchers with strong health systems expertise and demonstrate knowledge of, and potential contribution to, relevant health systems empirical literature.
Recognising that health systems are complex and multidimensional, this scheme welcomes research that addresses a range of health systems topics including but not limited to questions of governance, institutions, health workforce; financing; private sector, civil society, information systems; products and technologies, service delivery and so on.
Research funded through this call can engage with the contextual dynamics that shape and/or undermine effective health systems in developing countries, but the research must offer practical solutions to implement health care improvements. Where appropriate, studies should illustrate how the findings of this study may contribute to further understanding for other health challenges.
Applicants must identify the potential impacts of their research on policy and practice and outline clear relevance to decision makers and practitioners. Projects should identify and address the key barriers to implementation and uptake of evidence-based interventions at local and national levels, paving the way for their successful adoption into routine practice with improved access and use by the populations in need. A central component of this research programme is to build evidence within health systems.
Solutions to strengthening health systems in developing countries must be rooted in, and acceptable to, the institutions, communities, and societies where they will operate. As such, non-academic stakeholders, including potential users of the research, are expected to be included and involved in the design and delivery of projects. Indeed, proposals should demonstrate strong engagement with in-country stakeholders and decision makers from the project inception stage and include appropriate budget for such activities.
Researchers are encouraged to be innovative in the kinds of user engagement, knowledge exchange, communications and research uptake activities they plan to undertake during and beyond the period of research funding. It is important that applicants appreciate that outreach and engagement activities in themselves do not constitute impact.
Priority will be given to research that benefits the most vulnerable populations and/or those in poorly resourced settings. Whilst the funders recognise that many of the world’s poor live in middle-income countries, it is a specific objective of this programme to increase the body of research that is specifically relevant to low-income countries, whether through research in those countries or the ability to demonstrate the relevance of experience from middle income countries to low income countries. Applicants must illustrate how the proposed study will strengthen local LMIC health systems.
The funders aim for a significant majority of research projects within the portfolio to focus on low-income countries.
See DAC List of ODA recipients.
The above description is a summary of the call literature, please consult the documentation including the list of awards previously made in this area.
Please note that all overseas Research Organisations and individual applicants are required to be registered on the Je-S system. They are encouraged to contact the Je-S helpdesk at least 2 weeks before the call deadline to ensure that they are correctly entered onto the Je-S system.
We will be very happy to assist you in applying to these LMICs calls.
If you are interested in applying to the Research or Foundation Grants please inform Gwen Averley gwen.averley@ncl.ac.uk
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GCRF New social and cultural insights into mental, neurological and substance use disorders in developing countries
Deadline: 11th January 2018
Amount: £4m total budget, Max = £1.25m @ 100% fEC
Duration: Up to 30 months
Funding is available for applications which fall under the remit of ESRC, or as cross-disciplinary proposals across the remits of both participating research councils (ESRC & AHRC).
The councils expect to fund a balanced portfolio of proposals of varying sizes and ambitions, with a maximum grant value of £1.25 million at 100% full Economic Cost (fEC).
The research councils will contribute 80% fEC on successful proposals.
It is expected that the portfolio will include grants which are significantly smaller than the maximum value.
Proposals must be led by a researcher at an eligible UK research organisation and should be submitted through the research councils’ Joint Electronic Submission (Je-S) system.
Thematic focus
For this call, a wide definition of mental health is important; this will encompass mental, neurological, and substance use (MNS) disorders.
Proposals should address one of the following themes:
- Socio-economic and cultural contexts of MNS disorders and people’s understanding of them
- Living with MNS disorders in developing countries
- Prevention, worsening of and resilience against MNS disorders.
This may include comparative, cross-regional and cross-sectoral research.
Methods should be interdisciplinary both within and beyond the social sciences, with specific funds available for those which fall in significant part within AHRC remit.
Partnerships, whether with academics, policymakers or stakeholders, are encouraged.
Please ensure to read the Call Specification document as well as the FAQ document, available through the link above.
Rosetrees Interdisciplinary Prize 2018 to stimulate collaborative research between Medicine and either Chemistry or Physics
Rosetrees Trust Interdisciplinary Prize 2018 Call for Applications
ROSETREES TRUST ID_Application_2018
Dear All
The Rosetrees Interdisciplinary Prize is worth £250,000 over 3 years.
Newcastle may submit only one application to this interdisciplinary prize to support collaborative research between Medicine and either Chemistry or Physics.
Applications can relate to any disease or medical condition which affects a significant proportion of the population.
Therefore FMS and SAgE will be jointly holding an internal competition.
Internal competition
The following documents should be sent to gwen.averley@ncl.ac.uk by Friday 15 December 2017, 5pm
- A two-page project proposal suitable for a panel of academics (including any references and supporting figures)
- A CV for the two lead researchers – each CV must be no longer than 2 pages
- An email from the Institute Director and Head of School of the two leads expressing support for the application
Please note that any applications exceeding the specified limits will be rejected.
We will be looking for true and equal collaboration in our selected proposal.
Applicants will be informed of the outcome of this internal competition by Monday 15 January 2018.
The submission deadline to The Rosetrees Trust for the selected academic collaboration is 5pm on 28 February 2018.