Looking to the future with our new Director of Programme Grants
Professor Marian Knight, new Director of Programme Grants for Applied Research, updates us on her plans for the programme over the next year.
- Published: 19 October 2023
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Working together to rebuild lives after stroke
Richard Francis, Head of Research at the Stroke Association, writes about the charity’s new funding partnership with NIHR’s Programme Grants for Applied Research (PGfAR). He explains how together, we’re opening a funding competition for research that can improve rehabilitation and long-term care for stroke survivors.
- Published: 17 March 2022
Diverse and innovative research approaches are needed to tackle complex health and social care challenges
COVID-19 has demonstrated the importance of novel and ambitious research designs. Programme Director of NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research Professor Elaine Hay explains why bold methodologies should come to the fore as we face another pressing health issue: multiple long-term conditions.
- Published: 01 November 2021
How our journey through NIHR funding has improved care for people with heart failure
Dr Hasnain Dalal and Prof Rod Taylor describe how they’ve used several consecutive funding awards from the NIHR to develop, test and implement a new home-based approach to rehabilitation that is now improving lives for people with heart failure.
- Published: 10 August 2021
Programme Grants for Applied Research - Achievements during a challenging year
Professor Elaine Hay, Director of NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research, reflects on the achievements of the funding programme over the past year and outlines ambitions for 2021.
- Published: 28 January 2021
Evolving NIHR's Programme Development Grants
Professor Elaine Hay, Director of NIHR’s Programme Grants for Applied Research, explores how Programme Development Grants are evolving to support further work based on previously funded programmes of research.
- Published: 27 July 2020
Seeing through the rain: How research is adapting during the pandemic
Dr Rakesh Modi, a GP and researcher on a landmark NIHR-funded trial investigating screening to detect an undiagnosed heart condition responsible for one-in-ten strokes, writes on how the study has launched an additional feasibility study to test the ability to deliver their intervention remotely following the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Published: 15 July 2020
The pandemic data collection challenge
John Gibson and Debra Richards are part of an NIHR-funded trial looking at improving collaborative mental health care. They explain why they decided to continue the trial during lockdown as the UK responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Published: 23 June 2020
Top NIHR blog picks from 2019 - Part One
It’s been another very busy year for the NIHR. As we draw to the end of 2019, we take a look back at some of our most popular blogs over the last 12 months.
- Published: 19 December 2019
Increasing diversity in design to accelerate research into practice
The hallmark of NIHR Programme Grants for Applied Research is supporting interrelated research projects that develop and test complex interventions. But Programme Director Elaine Hay wants to encourage more varied and novel research designs.
- Published: 09 August 2019