The Latest Funding Opportunities and Help.
This section of the NIHR RDS NW website provides access to information on peer-reviewed health and social care research funding sources. It also provides self help resources on funding options for your research as well as information on applying for particular funding streams.
You can also contact our advisory service here which provides free expert advice on funding options and all aspects of the Research Design process.
Please note this section is under construction. New pages are being developed. Keep looking back!
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RDInfo - A Research Process Flowchart.
RDInfo, funded by the National Institute for Health Research have made available a "Research Process Flowchart." This flowchart takes you through a number of steps in the research process...access this here.
Also provided is a step (number 5) titled 'Issues about funding'. This describes a number of issues which occur when considering funding for a research project...access this here.
Included is a costings checklist providing information on things to consider when looking at staff, equipment, computing, travel, consumables and other expenses...access this here.
Please don't forget that your local RDS can provide expert advice on every aspect of the Research Design process, including help with finding funding...contact us here.
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The Medical Research Council (MRC) funds research through a range of grants, calls, highlight notices, studentships and fellowships.
RDFunding
RDFunding is part of the RDInfo service, which is a service funded by the National Institute for Health Research. It provides access's to health-related funding opportunities.
You can search an extensive up to date database of funding opportunities and also sign up for targeted regular e-mail bulletins concerning research funding in the areas of your choice.
NIHR Funding Programmes
The National Institute for Health Research Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB) Programme.
The RfPB Programme is a nationally co-ordinated funding stream for regionally commissioned research. There is a North West Committee to commission local health service research in the North West, details of members of that group can be found...more detail.
More information on the RfPB website, visit the RfPB website here.
Other NIHR Funding Programmes
- Programme Grants for Applied Research.
Prestigious awards of up to 2m over a period of three to five years; - Programme Development Grant.
To enable applicants to undertake preparatory work that will position them to submit a successful Programme Grant; - Research for Innovation Speculation and Creativity (RISC).
A response-mode funding programme established to provide research of direct benefit to users of the NHS in England; - Department of Health Policy (DH) Research Programme.
Commissioned and funded by the DH to provide the evidence base for policy development on public health and social care issues; - Invention for Innovation (i4i) Programme.
Aims to provide investment in, and improved identification of, promising healthcare technologies; - NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) Programme.
Aims to improve health outcomes for people; - NIHR Health Services Research (HSR) Programme.
Research to advance and improve health policy, health systems, and health care delivery; - NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) Programme.
Research to improve the health of the public and reduce inequalities in health; - Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Programme.
Broadly aimed at supporting 'science driven' studies with an expectation of substantial health gain; - NIHR Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme.
It produces independent research about the effectiveness of different healthcare treatments and tests for those who use, manage and provide care in the NHS.
Latest Links & Resources
Most Recently Added - Funding Opportunities
The Medical Research Council
The Medical Research Council (MRC) is a publicly-funded organisation dedicated to improving human health. They support research across the entire spectrum of medical sciences, in universities and hospitals, in their own units and institutes in the UK, and in their units in Africa...more detail.
Other Links & Resources
- Wellcome Trust - Funding Opportunities.
- Economic and Social Research Council - Funding Opportunities.
- RDFunding: Seeking Funding - Article.
- RDFunding: Getting Started - Article,
- More Links and Resources available soon.
Project Examples
See What's Been Funded
Research for Patient Benefit Projects.
Are you interested in finding out what sort of projects get funded under the National Institute for Health Research's (NIHR), Research for Patient Benefit Programme?
The NIHR publish details of projects that are funded under the programme. The project details can be found on the
NIHR Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) web site.
Latest NIHR Funding Calls
The Latest
NIHR Service and Delivery Organisation programme: Expedited evidence synthesis to support decision making by managers and leaders in the NHS
Projects will cost between £50,000 and £80,000 and take from six to nine months. This call for proposals is specifically for evidence syntheses and has three main purposes: • To respond to the research needs of NHS decision-makers by commissioning rapid evidence syntheses • To produce short research...
Other NIHR Funding Calls
- NIHR Service and Delivery Organisation Responsive Funding: Call for proposals from researchers for secondary research studies
- NIHR Service and Delivery programme call: Unplanned hospital admissions
- Outline proposals for NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme Clinical Evaluation and Trials
- NIHR Health Technology Assessment programme call for Commissioned Research
Other Funding
The Latest
Funding to boost veterinary research careers.New.
The Trust's clinical veterinary fellowship schemes, which help vets develop research careers, are now open for applications...more.
NIHR Funding Call Deadlines
August.
Septemeber.
- Public Health Research Programme - Researcher-led.
- NHS Physical Environment Research Programme.
- RfPB - Competition 13.
October.
- HTA - Topic focus: Learning disabilities.
- Programme Grants for Applied Research - Competition 9: Stage 1.
- Programme Grants for Applied Research - Competition 8: Stage 2.
- 7th Call for Stream 1 – i4i feasibility study.
- Programme Development Grants - Competition 4.
Please always check the funder's website for the latest information.