Dear All

I would be grateful if you could circulate this notice of the 2019 Lister Institute Research Prize

http://www.lister-institute.org.uk/launch-of-the-2019-lister-fellowship-applications/

Closing date: Friday 12 October 2018

£250,000 over 5 years

Candidates must have more than 3 and less than 10 years’ postdoctoral experience on 1 October 2019 and

must have guaranteed employment for the first three years of the notional five years of the award

Eligibility

• Any tenured or non-tenured researcher (scientist or clinician) working in an eligible UK or Irish institution is allowed to apply; provided that their personal salary is secure, from another source, and guaranteed for a minimum of the first three years of the award.

• The recipient does not need to be a UK national, but they must have a position in a UK or Republic of Ireland (ROI) institution for at least the first three years of the award.

• There is no age restriction, but the individual must, at the time of taking up the award, have a minimum of 3 or a maximum of 10 years’ research experience (allowance will be made for career breaks).

• The individual may concurrently hold awards, such as a fellowship, programme, or project grant(s), from other organisations, or be employed by them.

• Applicants may be scientifically trained undertaking full-time research, medically qualified still undergoing some speciality training and/or leading a research project with more than 3 but less than 10 years post-doctoral experience (post PhD or MD, whichever is the earlier).

• Prizes are ideal for researchers just starting their own independent research group, or for group leaders looking to research new areas not covered by current awards.

• The Lister Institute seeks diversity in its Prize winners and their research areas. The Institute is delighted that over the years female researches have been well represented amongst its prize-winners, which have been in the same gender ratio as initial applications.
• The Institute is aware that personal circumstances vary and that there are unavoidable factors that limit research time (e.g. maternity leave, family commitments). Please contact the Lister Institute directly if you would like to discuss your eligibility

Those thinking of making an application should contact Gwen Averley gwen.averley@ncl.ac.uk and/or Darren Airey darren.airey@ncl.ac.uk

With many thanks

Gwen

2019 Terms and Conditions.doc

2019 Notice

2018 Prizewinners

Are you a research-active Clinical Lecturer looking to develop and strengthen your research? Round 20 now open for applications

We offer grants of up to £30,000 to cover the cost of research consumables, enabling research-active Clinical Lecturers to gather data to strengthen their bids for longer-term fellowships and funding.

To be eligible to apply you must:

• Be a research-active Clinical Lecturer (or equivalent eligible post for Veterinary Clinicians)
• Have a PhD or MD
• Hold a medical, dental or veterinary undergraduate degree
• Be within higher specialty training (except from GPs who may apply post-CCT)

We welcome applications from clinicians in human, dental and veterinary medicine. For more information on eligibility, please see the Academy’s Starter Grant webpage.

Deadline for applications: 10 September 2018

This scheme is run by the Academy of Medical Sciences with the support of the Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council, British Heart Foundation, Arthritis Research UK, Diabetes UK and British Thoracic Society (through the Helen and Andrew Douglas bequest).

Applications Now Open for Alzheimer’s Research UK David Hague Early Career Investigator of the Year Award 2019

The David Hague Early Career Investigator of the Year Award aims to recognise the contribution of an outstanding early career researcher in the field of biomedical dementia research. Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) also aims to raise the profile of excellence in dementia research through the award.

The award consists of £25,000 in research expenses and a personal prize of £1,500, as well as the winner’s expenses for attending ARUK’s Annual Research Conference which will be held in Harrogate, UK, 19-20 March 2019.

Candidates will be judged by an external panel of prominent researchers, who will look for excellence in scientific research and a significant contribution to the field of dementia research as demonstrated through the candidates’ defining research outputs and essay. Early career researchers from anywhere in the world with less than 10 years post-PhD experience (excluding career breaks) are eligible to apply. Entrants must submit a 1,000 word essay explaining how their three defining research outputs have contributed to their development across ARUK’s Early Career Research Framework.

The winner will be notified in December 2018, and will be required to present at the ARUK Annual Research Conference.

The closing date for entries is 28 September 2018 (12pm UTC+1).

The direct link to this scheme is: https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/for-researchers/research-opportunities/early-career-award/

There is also a very detailed 3 page summary here: https://www.alzheimersresearchuk.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Draft-David-Hague-Early-Career-Investigator-Award-Description-2018-19.pdf

Expressions of interest by leaderships teams for a network plus as part of the Transforming Construction challenge has been announced under the ISCF.  Network plus are intended to create a new community linking together other investments made under the ISCF Transforming Construction Challenge with the broader research base, relevant business and wider stakeholders.  It will engage the network membership through events, communications and small scale funding call.

A single network plus will be funded for up to £2.5 million at 100% fEC – for further information please see the ESRC website.

If you are interested in this call please can you contact Fiona McCusker (fiona.mccusker@ncl.ac.uk), Business Development Manager, to discuss further as there has been discussion in developing a proposal.

Innovation in Social Care Collaborative Grants

ESRC invite outline application for large collaborative grants on Innovation in Social Care.  Grants are expected to be between £1 million and £2 million (100% fEC), for a duration of up to 60 months and to be submitted by 16 October 2018.

Through this call, ESRC will fund social science-led research and knowledge exchange activity to understand how, why and where innovation happens in social care, to best understand how to improve people’s lives.  Each grant should be highly collaborative involving a range of disciplines and stakeholders through the research process, as well as including researchers with a strong track record.

Proposal should reflect the reality of how social care is experienced by care recipients and providers, their friends and families, and care professionals, as well as exploring the relationships between those involved.  All applicants should also consider the following, and clearly state how these will be addressed in their case for support:

• Social care system
• Theoretical and methodological approach
• Impact of inequality
• Place
• Outcomes

Proposals are particularly welcomed that focus on one or more of the following (see page 3 of the call specification for further details):

• Housing
• Workforce
• Relationships
• Wider political and economic backdrop to social care

Timetable:

Closing date for outline proposals – 16 October 2018

Proposals shortlisted – December 2018

Closing date for full proposals – February 2019

Funding decisions – June 2019

Grants start – from 1 September 2019

Please could you circulate this information to researchers in your Institutes.It will be of interest to those working with Lower and Middle Income Countries.

The Wellcome Trust has recently revised their International Fellowship schemes. https://wellcome.ac.uk/news/update-public-health-and-tropical-medicine-fellowships

The Wellcome has amended the remit of the three schemes to now include everything within its remit (https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/guidance/science-remit). They no longer just focus on Public Health and Tropical Medicine.

3 levels of fellowships are offered: International Master’s Fellowships, International Training Fellowships & International Intermediate Fellowships. They are open to clinicians and non-clinicians.

These schemes offer nationals of Lower and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) the chance to work in an LMIC and research a health priority in the setting.

This may be of interest to researchers who have LMIC partners or wish to develop LMIC relationships. Although the award could not be held at Newcastle University, a period of training / collaboration could be undertaken here.

New £multi-million initiative announced for ageing research: CALL FOR PROPOSALS NOW OPEN

A new £multi-million initiative of the British Council and the British Embassy in Israel investing in world-leading research jointly undertaken by scientists in Britain and Israel has been announced.

The partnership (which previously focused on Regenerative Medicine to which it committed almost £8 million to 19 cutting edge projects directly involving over 100 researchers in both countries) is supported by the Dunhill Medical Trust and is now turning its attention to ageing and has opened to proposals.

The Call is divided into two strands:

·         The effect of ageing on human health: preventive,  disease modifying and regenerative medicine approaches to medical conditions and the ageing process. BIRAX invites proposals addressing diverse effects of ageing on human health, exploring the basic mechanisms underlying ageing-related disease. The research proposals can address these issues using its environment. Multidisciplinary research plans based on synergising collaborations between the partnering researchers are recommended.

Proposals under this category should be relevant to at least one of the following research fields: cardiovascular disease, diabetes, neurodegenerative diseases, arthritis, age related frailty and other geriatric syndromes and age related multimorbidity.

·         Ageing and Technology: precision medicine and big data in ageing research. Proposals under this theme will aim to identify innovative biomarkers, algorithms, computational and measurement techniques and to promote advances in precision medicine that would allow the prevention or mitigation of age related conditions or harmful effects associated with ageing. Proposals that build on effective collaboration between basic and clinical research and big data and those facilitating the translation of basic research to clinical practice will be prioritised.

The call’s documents and the online application form can be found on the British Council’s website.

The deadline for applications is 15 October, 22:00 GMT.

Please do circulate to colleagues who may be interested and monitor the King’s College London website to register for the upcoming BIRAX Ageing conferences (3-6 September).

Frequently asked questions

NIHR Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation (RIGHT) – Call 1

https://www.nihr.ac.uk/funding-and-support/funding-opportunities/research-and-innovation-for-global-health-transformation-right-call-1/8641

Delivering challenge-led research that will primarily benefit the health and wealth of the poorest individuals living in low and middle income countries (LMICs), the incoming NIHR Research and Innovation for Global Health Transformation (RIGHT) programme is part of the nation’s commitment to Official Development Assistance (ODA) and complements recent investment in NIHR Global Health Research Groups and Units.

The initial challenges announced by this new programme are in three areas of unmet need and underinvestment in LMICs –

• epilepsy,
• infection-related cancer and
• severe stigmatising skin diseases.

Full information will be released when the call opens on 21 June 2018.

Interest can be registered in advance by email.

Note that likely also to be announced on 21 June are NIHR calls in:

• Digital Medicine
• End of Life Care and
• Precision Medicine

https://acmedsci.ac.uk/grants-and-schemes/grant-schemes/gcrf-networking-grants

Applicants can be from any discipline, and applications should focus on building a collaborative network. Therefore proposals should be submitted jointly by a lead overseas researcher from a developing country and a lead researcher based in the UK.

It is mandatory for the overseas researcher to be resident in a country on the DAC list. See the DAC list for a full list of eligible countries. As Chile, Seychelles and Uruguay graduated from the DAC list in 2017, they are not eligible to apply for the scheme.

Each application must have only one UK based core partner in the network and they should be the UK researcher who jointly submits the application.

There will be funding for 40 awards per year (20 per round) of up to £25,000.

This scheme is targeted at experienced researchers who are looking to form new international collaborations.

The aims of the networking grants are to:

• Pump prime new interdisciplinary partnerships between research communities, policy makers and practitioners in developing countries and in the UK.
• Provide opportunities for researchers drawn from a wide spectrum of disciplines and backgrounds, particularly those who may not previously have considered the applicability of their work to development issues, to forge new links and generate new research ideas and innovative approaches to addressing global challenges.
• Establish sustainable partnerships between UK researchers and those in developing countries to serve as a foundation for sharing knowledge and skill transfer to allow them in the future to conduct excellent research with impact.
• Strengthen research and training capacity and capability in developing countries across a range of different disciplines.

The Networking Grants are broadly themed and the main activities that will be supported through these grants include hosting collaborative meetings, visits or workshops.

A proportion of the grant can focus on building pilot data or conducting archival research or fieldwork.

These networking activities will be problem-orientated and solution focused and will generate new ideas and innovative approaches to addressing global challenges.

The networks formed through these grants can be newly constructed collaborations, or may build on an existing network but focusing on a new project.

The networks must be interdisciplinary in nature and the primary benefit must be to promote growth and development in developing countries.

To be eligible to apply, both applicants must:

• Have completed a PhD or have experience at an equivalent level
• Have proven research experience in their field
• Hold a permanent position at an eligible institution (in the UK or a DAC-listed country), or a fixed term contract for the duration of the award
• Lead applicants must not be affiliated to a private or commercial organisation. Applications will not be considered if there is more than one UK co-applicant or an overseas applicant not from a DAC-listed country.

This grant forms part of the UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA), which promotes economic development and welfare in developing countries. In order for applications to be eligible for this grant, applicants must clearly show that their proposal’s aims are in-line with those of the ODA. These include strengthening global peace and security, promoting global prosperity and tackling extreme poverty. The delivery partners for this scheme have provided some ODA guidance for applicants, which can be downloaded from the right side of this page.

Projects must start between 1 January 2019 and 31 March 2019, and the funding will last for one year.

The maximum amount available is £25,000 of which £5,000 can be used for consumables for obtaining pilot data, archival research or fieldwork.
The remainder can be used to contribute towards travel and subsistence costs, costs associated with networking events, administrative support and access to technical support.

Grants cannot be used to pay for salary costs or to employ research assistants, PhD students or postdoctoral staff.

Please see full terms and conditions and sample form and previous awards at the URL above.

8 August 2018

Academy of Medical Sciences / British Academy / Royal Academy of Engineering / Royal Society

Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Networking Grants Round 3 (of 5)

https://acmedsci.ac.uk/grants-and-schemes/grant-schemes/gcrf-networking-grants

Applicants can be from any discipline, and applications should focus on building a collaborative network. Therefore proposals should be submitted jointly by a lead overseas researcher from a developing country and a lead researcher based in the UK.

It is mandatory for the overseas researcher to be resident in a country on the DAC list. See the DAC list for a full list of eligible countries. As Chile, Seychelles and Uruguay graduated from the DAC list in 2017, they are not eligible to apply for the scheme.

Each application must have only one UK based core partner in the network and they should be the UK researcher who jointly submits the application.

There will be funding for 40 awards per year (20 per round) of up to £25,000.

This scheme is targeted at experienced researchers who are looking to form new international collaborations.

The aims of the networking grants are to:

• Pump prime new interdisciplinary partnerships between research communities, policy makers and practitioners in developing countries and in the UK.
• Provide opportunities for researchers drawn from a wide spectrum of disciplines and backgrounds, particularly those who may not previously have considered the applicability of their work to development issues, to forge new links and generate new research ideas and innovative approaches to addressing global challenges.
• Establish sustainable partnerships between UK researchers and those in developing countries to serve as a foundation for sharing knowledge and skill transfer to allow them in the future to conduct excellent research with impact.
• Strengthen research and training capacity and capability in developing countries across a range of different disciplines.

The Networking Grants are broadly themed and the main activities that will be supported through these grants include hosting collaborative meetings, visits or workshops.

A proportion of the grant can focus on building pilot data or conducting archival research or fieldwork.

These networking activities will be problem-orientated and solution focused and will generate new ideas and innovative approaches to addressing global challenges.

The networks formed through these grants can be newly constructed collaborations, or may build on an existing network but focusing on a new project.

The networks must be interdisciplinary in nature and the primary benefit must be to promote growth and development in developing countries.

To be eligible to apply, both applicants must:

• Have completed a PhD or have experience at an equivalent level
• Have proven research experience in their field
• Hold a permanent position at an eligible institution (in the UK or a DAC-listed country), or a fixed term contract for the duration of the award
• Lead applicants must not be affiliated to a private or commercial organisation. Applications will not be considered if there is more than one UK co-applicant or an overseas applicant not from a DAC-listed country.

This grant forms part of the UK’s Official Development Assistance (ODA), which promotes economic development and welfare in developing countries. In order for applications to be eligible for this grant, applicants must clearly show that their proposal’s aims are in-line with those of the ODA. These include strengthening global peace and security, promoting global prosperity and tackling extreme poverty. The delivery partners for this scheme have provided some ODA guidance for applicants, which can be downloaded from the right side of this page.

Projects must start between 1 January 2019 and 31 March 2019, and the funding will last for one year.

The maximum amount available is £25,000 of which £5,000 can be used for consumables for obtaining pilot data, archival research or fieldwork.
The remainder can be used to contribute towards travel and subsistence costs, costs associated with networking events, administrative support and access to technical support.

Grants cannot be used to pay for salary costs or to employ research assistants, PhD students or postdoctoral staff.

Please see full terms and conditions and sample form and previous awards at the URL above.