This is a joint funding call about public involvement in research funded by the NIHR through INVOLVE and delivered by the NIHR HSR programme. The three key aims of this call are to collect evidence on:
 
- Impact: to increase knowledge and understanding of the impact of public involvement in research
- Evaluation: to identify methods of evaluating public involvement in research
- Implementation: to identify effective ways of involving the public in research
 
We anticipate funding a range of studies in both size and duration using different approaches and within a variety of areas of NHS, public health and social care research. Applicants are asked to submit an outline for the above call by 1pm on Thursday 6 May 2010. Click below to find out more about this funding opportunity.

The NIHR HSR programme is seeking proposals for its second open call. The remit of this call is broad and will include a range of study designs. Some examples could be:
 
- Effectiveness of innovative services
- Problems of access to services and methods to reduce inequalities
- Variations in provision and outcomes of services
 
Applicants are asked to submit an outline for the above call by 1pm on Thursday 22 April 2010. Click below to find out more about this funding opportunity.
 

The Office for Life Sciences invites applications from NHS/academic centres that are interested in forming part of Therapeutic Capability Clusters in two key areas: Inflammatory Respiratory Diseases and Joint and Related Inflammatory Diseases. 
An Open Meeting is being held on 3 March 2010 to provide more information about the concept of Therapeutic Capability Clusters.
The deadline for submitting applications is 29 March 2010.

The SDO programme invites proposals on aspects of patient safety particularly in the following topic areas:
•  translating knowledge about patient safety into service delivery
• patient/user involvement in safety improvement
• financial costs and benefits and trade-offs in patient safety
• boundaries between care processes, services and organisations.
 
Approximately £2 million funding is available. The closing date for outline proposals is 24 March 2010.

The SDO programme invites research proposals in three main areas:

• Follow-on studies to existing SDO or NIHR HTA research
• Evidence synthesis (which draw on past primary research within the SDO programme and/or on research funded elsewhere)
• Scoping reviews for future research needs (aimed at identifying and tackling major topic areas of future research need relevant to the SDO programme and its mission).
 
Projects will be funded up to 24 months duration and up to £300,000 in cost. The closing date for outline proposals is 18 March 2010.

The NIHR Public Health Research programme (PHR) invites research proposals in the following areas:

•  Regeneration programmes.
•  Relationship between reduction in alcohol availability and measures of community alcohol health related harm and/or consumption.
•  Community engagement approaches to improve health and reduce health inequalities.

The closing date for applications is 14 April 2010, 1.00 pm.

Applications are invited from leading research groups for an NIHR Programme Grant for Applied Research award, of up to £2m over a period of three to five years. Each programme grant funds a coherent series of related projects to tackle high priority health issues. Proposals should comprise health services research and/or innovation (e.g. introduction of new technologies), where there is potential gain for patients within the relatively near future, i.e. 'near market' research with application in the NHS within 3-5 years of the end of the funding period. Potential applicants are required to complete a stage 1 grant application form summarising their proposed research programme (in stage 2, full applications will be invited from those meeting the assessment criteria and shortlisted at stage 1).
The deadline for submission of stage 1 applications is 15 March 2010.

The EME programme is funded by the MRC and managed by the NIHR as the lead organisation for clinical trials and evaluation.

The EME programme is broadly aimed at supporting science driven studies with an expectation of substantial health gain. The clinical studies are likely to be mostly randomised controlled trials but other forms of evaluation appropriate for the intervention under study will also be supported.

The EME programme is an ongoing research funding opportunity. Applicants are welcome to submit a preliminary application at any time, however there are three submission deadlines each year. The submission deadline for consideration in the next round is Tuesday 16 March 2010 (before 1pm).