Stage 2 proposals
The PHR Funding Committee recommended the following Stage 2 proposals for either immediate funding or for funding subject to certain conditions.
Researcher-led
NIHR128533: What is the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of community water fluoridation in adults?
Lead applicant: Professor Iain Pretty
Institution: Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust
NIHR128477: Community health walks: Pragmatic evaluation of an asset-based approach to address health inequalities
Lead applicant: Dr Sarah Hanson
Institution: University of East Anglia
Commissioned
NIHR128341: Do Safe and Well Visits delivered by the Fire and Rescue service reduce falls among high risk older people? (FIREFLI)
Lead applicant: Mrs Sarah Cockayne
Institution: University of York
NIHR127651: Evaluating the effectiveness of the alcohol reduction smartphone app, Drink Less, for excessive drinkers in the UK: a randomised controlled trial
Lead applicant: Dr Claire Garnett
Institution: University College London
NIHR128148: An interactive digital behaviour change intervention (Wrapped) to decrease incidence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) amongst users of STI self-sampling websites: A randomised controlled feasibility trial
Lead applicant: Dr Katie Newby
Institution: Coventry University
NIHR127422: The Reflective Fostering Programme – improving the wellbeing of looked after children through psycho-education groups for foster carers: a randomised controlled trial
Lead applicant: Dr Nick Midgley
Institution: University College London
NIHR127799: Shared Training and Assessment of Well-being for Looked-After Children: Impacts on mental health and socio-emotional functioning (STrAWB)
Lead applicant: Dr Nikki Luke
Institution: University of Oxford
Further information on the above projects will be provided on the PHR Programme’s website once the project has started.
Stage 1 proposals
The following Stage 1 proposals have been shortlisted to submit a Stage 2 proposal for consideration by the PHR Funding Committee at its next meeting.
Researcher-led
NIHR129064: A randomised feasibility study of a school-based emotional literacy programme (Zippy's Friends) for children with intellectual disabilities
Lead applicant: Dr Biza Stenfert Kroese
Institution: University of Birmingham
NIHR129113: Mental health and well-being interventions for care-experienced children and young people: Systematic review of intervention theories, process, effect and equity
Lead applicant:Dr Rhiannon Evans
Institution: Cardiff University
NIHR128607: Voluntary agreements to improve diet and nutrition in the UK: Evidence Synthesis to inform how to improve these policy mechanisms
Lead applicant: Dr Cecile Knai
Institution: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
NIHR128874: Evaluation of the Universal Infant Free School Meals programme on health, educational, financial and process outcomes for students, their families and schools: a mixed methods evaluation of a natural experiment using the Born in Bradford study cohort and the National Pupil database
Lead applicant: Dr Emily Petherick
Institution: Loughborough University
NIHR129182: The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Assets-based feeding help Before and After birth (ABA) for improving breastfeeding initiation and continuation
Lead applicant: Professor Kate Jolly
Institution: University of Birmingham
NIHR129125: A feasibility study of the clinical and cost-effectiveness of the MATILDA intervention to support older adults with intellectual disability to improve health, wellbeing and social networks
Lead applicant: Dr Laurence Taggart
Institution: University of Ulster
Commissioned – 18/138 - suicide prevention in high risk groups
NIHR129196: Adapted suicide safety plans to address suicidal ideation and suicide behaviours in autistic adults: an interventional single arm feasibility trial and external pilot randomised controlled trial
Lead applicant: Dr Jacqueline Rodgers
Institution: University of Newcastle
Commissioned - 18/147 - Air pollution: outdoor air quality and health
NIHR128833: Evaluating the life-course health impact of a city-wide system approach to improve air quality in Bradford, UK: A quasi-experimental study with implementation and process evaluation.
Lead applicant: Dr Rosemary McEachan
Institution: Bradford Institute for Health Research
NIHR129400: Transport for Healthy Air Quality (TransportHAQ)
Lead applicant: Dr Miranda Loh
Institution: Institute of Occupational Medicine
NIHR129406: The air quality health and economic benefits of a zero carbon UK
Lead applicant: Dr Sean Beevers
Institution: King's College London
Commissioned - 18/148 - Air pollution: non-road traffic-related outdoor air pollution and health
NIHR129440: Assessing Mitigation Pathways to Realise Public Health Benefits of Air Pollutant Emission Reductions from Agriculture (AMPHoRA)
Lead applicant: Dr Stefan Reis
Institution: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
NIHR129449: AIM-HEALTH: Effectiveness of agricultural interventions to minimise the health impacts of air pollution
Lead applicant: Professor Sotiris Vardoulakis
Institution: Institute of Occupational Medicine
Commissioned - 18/162 NETS3 Tobacco
NIHR129074: BabyBreathe Trial (A randomised controlled trial of a complex intervention to prevent return to smoking postpartum
Lead applicant: Dr Caitlin Notley
Institution: University of East Anglia