Funding Opportunities

A collation of funding opportunities relating to primary and emergency care research are listed below.

The Health and Care Research Wales website also includes a comprehensive list of funding opportunities at: https://healthandcareresearchwales.org/researchers/funding-opportunities

NIHR funding opportunities

You can find all the links to the funding opportunities below on the Health and Care Research Wales website.

Themed call    

• Early action to prevent poor health outcomes

Efficacy and Mechanism Evaluation (EME) Programme

• NIHR James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships Rolling Funding Opportunity (EME Programme)   
• NIHR NICE Rolling Funding Opportunity (EME Programme)
• Novel non-pharmacological approaches for diagnosis and treatment of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Prevention and/or management of lymphoedema following Breast Cancer Resection   

Health and Social Care Research (HSDR) Programme

• Care, support, and rehabilitation for patients with brain tumours (HSDR Programme)
• HSDR Programme Researcher-led
• Improving health and social care services for working age people with multiple long-term conditions   
• NIHR James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships rolling funding opportunity (HSDR Programme)
• HSDR Programme researcher-led
• NIHR NICE rolling funding opportunity (HSDR Programme)

Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme

• Care, support, and rehabilitation for patients with brain tumours (HTA Programme)  
• HTA Programme researcher-led evidence synthesis
• HTA Programme researcher-led primary research
• NIHR James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships rolling funding opportunity (HTA Programme)   
• NIHR NICE rolling funding opportunity (HTA Programme)
• The effectiveness of technologies for people living with deafblindness in social care settings   
• A behavioural intervention for anxiety disorder in adults with a moderate to severe learning disability   
• A behavioural intervention to treat anxiety disorder in children with a moderate to severe learning disability
• Compensatory interventions to facilitate swallowing in adults with dysphagia to fluids 
• Earlier stopping of NAC following paracetamol overdose
• Evaluating interventions for foster/kinship carers of looked-after children with behavioural difficulties   
• Improving diagnosis of Urinary Tract Infection in older adults
• Initial management strategies for children and young people presenting with post-appendicectomy collections: a feasibility study
• Increasing social support and parenting skills for parents with learning disabilities 
• Lidocaine infusions for refractory neuropathic pain
• Nebulised therapy in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and disabling breathlessness   
• Optimal dosing for cancer treatments
• Pharmacological treatment with and without cognitive behaviour therapy for gambling that harms   
• Prehospital cardiac troponin testing to rule out NSTEMI
• Studies evaluating the clinical and cost-effectiveness of fundamental nursing interventions   
• The effectiveness of interventions to support children and young people affected by sexual abuse   
• The use of thickened fluids in children and young people with oropharyngeal dysphagia  
• Transabdominal ultrasound surveillance for gallbladder cancer in patients with gallbladder polyps
• Tranexamic acid for heavy menstrual bleeding in patients on anticoagulation for thromboembolic events

Public Health Research (PHR) Programme

• Healthy Homes
• Increasing uptake of vaccinations in populations where there is low uptake
• Interventions to support men in prison or post-release 
• Interventions to deliver inclusive economies   
• Suicide prevention
• Mass media content
• Unstructured activities (play) for children and young people  
• Continuing areas of research interest to the PHR Programme
• NIHR James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnerships rolling funding opportunity (PHR Programme)
• NIHR NICE rolling funding opportunity (PHR Programme)
• PHR Programme researcher-led
• Public Health Intervention Responsive Studies Teams (PHIRST) – EOI for local government interventions
• Greenspace and natural environments
• Children and young people's mental health
• Coastal communities
• Uptake of population screening programmes
• Transport poverty
• Development Award – Period poverty and menstrual support
• Serious violence
• Midlife interventions
• Advice services

Top tips for winning research funding

PRIME Associate Director, Professor Helen Snooks has produced this helpful reference guide for researchers: 'Top tips for winning research funding' and is available to view in PDF.

Clinical Innovation Hub - Accelerate projects

The Clinical Innovation Hub is a partnership between Cardiff University and Cardiff and Vale University Health Board.  The Clinical Innovation Hub is a partner of the Accelerate project, Clinical Innovation Accelerator (CIA). Accelerate is a consortium £24M programme led by the Life Sciences Hub Wales in collaboration with Cardiff University, Swansea University and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.  

It is funded by the Wales European Funding Office (WEFO) and will utilise EU Structural Funds to identify innovation projects that meet an unmet clinical need.

The awards are open to academia, industry, students and healthcare professionals. Innovations could take the form of new technologies, products, processes or services to deliver economically viable solutions for adoption into routine health and social care delivery, for patient benefit, health economic benefit and to stimulate economic growth with attendant socio-economic benefits in Wales.

Support that Accelerate can offer:

• Funding for “Pilot” (6-12 months and <£20K) and “Platform” (12-18 months and < £150K) projects
• Access to future funding opportunities/initiatives
• Clinical input - Buy out and attract in kind NHS staff R&D time
• Human resource - Clinical Innovation fellows, project management, business management, cost benefit analytics and  research technologist assistance
• Collaborations  - Industry/Academic/Clinical partner
• Advice & Guidance - A Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) of Clinical Innovation experts, including devices and intellectual property experts
• Access to leading Welsh University, University Health Boards and Trusts - patients, facilities and personnel
• Funding /deadlines: Support and awards operate on an always open basis with funding anticipated until 2021 so you can apply at any time.  If you would like further information on submitting a proposal or have an innovative idea that you think would benefit from the advice or support for Cardiff University applicants, please contact Barbara Coles: colesb2@cf.ac.uk

Further information: 

• http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/innovation/our-partnerships/cardiff-and-vale
• https://lshubwales.com/accelerate

Royal College of General Practitioners

RCGP support for researchers

The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is supporting researchers to implement academic primary care findings into practice for GPs.

The Research programme includes:

• Scientific Foundation Board grants
• RCGP Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Fellowship
• RCGP Research Ready®
• RCGP Impact from Research
• Influencing research
• Research awards

The new Impact from Research programme offers to partner on research projects and support impact and dissemination through a range of activities.
Further information: www.rcgp.org.uk/research