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Complete our Speciality Registrar, Nurse and Midwife Committee Member Development Scheme (CMDS) application form to apply for a one-year committee role.
To help you with your application please read the ‘Who we are looking for’ section of the advert along with our become a professional committee member page, to learn more about what is involved in being an NIHR committee member.
To apply you need to be either:
If you feel you are too experienced to apply for these opportunities, you may be interested in applying for one of our other committee membership roles.
We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture by having committees and panels that are made up of diverse skills and experiences. We will work with you to make reasonable adjustments to remove any barriers during the application process. If you have any access needs or would like any support throughout the application process, please email agmembership@nihr.ac.uk.
Please enter the reference number of the role for which you wish to be considered.
ORCID (If providing ORCID please include the full address, e.g. https://orcid.org/0000-0000-1234-5678, and ensure visibility settings for the content relevant to your application are set to ‘everyone’. Note that if ORCID isn’t relevant for you, you may upload a short CV including details of your education and/or career history.)
Please summarise your knowledge, skills and experience using up to five key words or phrases (such as service management, health economics, questionnaire design, paediatrics, obesity etc.) in the spaces below. The words you provide should summarise your subject knowledge as well as any relevant research methods expertise.
Please provide a narrative describing your relevant knowledge, skills and experience across each of the following four sections, referring to the criteria in the advert. Examples are provided under each heading, but you are not limited to these or required to include an example of each. Your narrative will be viewed as a whole, and the panel will draw from examples across all of the sections to make an assessment.
e.g. contributions to research and innovation and skills acquired during your career, key skills you have used and how you have communicated on your ideas. You could highlight information about key outputs and funding awarded. Where outputs have a digital object identifier (DOI) please only include this, this will also help you to save space in the form.
e.g. supervision, mentoring or line management; project management; contributions to the success of a team or team members; establishment of collaborations; providing expert advice; or where you have used leadership skills in shaping the direction of a team, organisation, company or institution.
e.g. committee memberships, editing and reviewing, contributions to the evaluation of research, contributions to increasing research integrity and improving research culture. Note that if you are including details of NIHR and MRC reviewing experience, please provide the name of the research programme, reference number, title and date of the review task(s) where possible.
e.g. engagement with patients and the public, industry, and other non-academic stakeholders. Contributions to policy development or public understanding, impacts across research, policy, practice and business, and other examples of and how you have ensured research reaches and influences relevant audiences.
e.g. career breaks, secondments, volunteering, training, part-time work and other relevant experience (including time spent in different sectors). These details will be used by our reviewers to make appropriate adjustments when considering your background, skills and experience (Maximum 2000 characters)
You may provide a personal statement that reflects on your overarching goals and motivation for the activities in which you have been involved, how they demonstrate your suitability for an NIHR Committee Member Development Scheme role, what you hope to bring to the role, and why you wish to become a committee member. (Maximum 1500 characters)
Have you recently applied for any other committee member positions with NIHR or other funders which may affect your ability to take a role if offered? (Please read our conditions about sitting on multiple committees on our become a professional committee member page).
The NIHR Reviewer Development Scheme is for early career researchers and professionals who are new to reviewing or want to develop their skills further. The scheme offers members the opportunity to gain experience of peer review for NIHR funding programmes and in turn influence research commissioning.
If you would like to join the NIHR Reviewer Development Scheme, please tick here:
Please note: If your application fails to submit, you will need to re-attach your files and re-select any checkboxes.
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