Minutes of the Research Programme for Social Care (RpSC) funding committee meeting to discuss applications to Competition 1 Stage 1- Committee A
Date and Location
Meeting held Wednesday 20th March 2024 Virtually
In Attendance
Funding committee
Professor Claire Surr (Chair)
Professor Joy Adamson
Dr Jenni Brooks
Dr Sue Caton
Professor Joanne Cook
Dr Laura Cowley
Dr Robbie Duschinsky
Dr Martin Elliott
Miss Jennifer Gibbs
Professor Deborah James
Dr Jennifer Lynch
Dr Reima Ana Maglajlic
Dr Juliette Malley
Dr Gary Mitchell
Ms Elizabeth Monaghan
Mrs Rachel Murphy
Professor Tessa Parkes
Ms Bridget Penhale
Dr Samantha Phippard
Mr Nanik Pursani
Professor Katherine Runwick-Cole
Miss Samantha Russell
Professor Sara Ryan
Mrs Jade Stacey
Professor Helen Weatherly
Professor Martin Webber
Secretariat
Dr Rifat Mahbub (NIHR CCF)
Ms Laura Mason (NIHR CCF)
Mr Ben Morgan (NIHR CCF)
Ms Beth Rowley (NIHR CCF)
Mr Alex Lewington (NIHR CCF)
Mx Charlie Delilkan (NIHR CCF)
Ms Katie Prangle (NIHR CCF)
Mr Ethan Coyne (NIHR CCF)
Ms Lauren McKelvie (NIHR CCF)
Observers
Miss Sophie Kay (DHSC)
Miss Roxanne Smith (DHSC)
Dr Alexander Thompson - Manchester University
Mrs Irina McClean - DA Scotland
Dr Janet Diffin - DA Northern Ireland
Ms Penelope Welbourne - CRN
Programme Director
Professor Martin Knapp
Applications considered
NIHR207569: Future planning by Social Care Older clients who Privately rEnt (Future-SCOPE project): A Qualitative Study
Conflicts: Professor Sara Ryan, Professor Claire Surr, Professor Martin Webber, Professor Helen Weatherly, Professor Katherine Runswick-Cole, Dr Juliette Malley, Mrs Rachel Murphy, Professor Joy Adamson, Dr Jenni Brooks and Professor Joanne Cook
Final outcome: Reject
NIHR207639: Scoping the experiences and needs of carers (friends and family) of people living with suicidal thoughts and feelings in LGBTQ+ communities in England
Conflicts: Professor Martin Webber and Dr Juliette Malley
Final outcome:Invite to Stage 2
NIHR207558: Unseen, unreported, unprotected: disabled Black African/Caribbean and South Asian women’s experiences of domestic violence and abuse in England
Conflicts: None
Final outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR207631: Best practice principles in bereavement support for care home staff, residents, families.
Conflicts: Dr Juliette Malley, Professor Claire Surr, Ms Bridget Penhale and Miss Sophie Kay
Final outcome: Reject
NIHR207596: Matching support to needs: A children’s social care RCT testing a standardised comprehensive assessment of the mental health needs of young people in care
Conflicts: Dr Reima Ana Maglajlic, Miss Samantha Russell, Professor Tessa Parkes, Professor Robbie Duschinsky, Professor Deborah James and Miss Jennifer Gibbs
Final outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR207630: Social Care Linked Data Lab (CARE Lab)
Conflicts: Dr Reima Ana Maglajlic, Dr Juliette Malley, Dr Laura Cowley, Dr Martin Elliott, Miss Sophie Kay and Miss Roxanne Smith
Final outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR207618: Evaluating the Day-Doc: A tool to support day-services to document the views and experiences of autistic people with profound learning disabilities
Conflicts: Professor Sara Ryan, Professor Katherine Runswick-Cole, Dr Sue Caton and Professor Martin Knapp
Final outcome: Reject
NIHR207615: UK THRIVEWISE: Enhancing Older Adults (50+) Preparedness for Transition into Home and Community Social Care
Conflicts: Dr Juliette Malley, Ms Bridget Penhale and Professor Martin Knapp
Final outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR207592: Conversations about intimate relationships in mental health social care (CaIR study)
Conflicts: Professor Sara Ryan, Professor Martin Webber and Dr Juliette Malley
Final outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR207564: Developing a falls-prevention intervention for people with intellectual disabilities in community settings (Defall-ID)
Conflicts: Professor Sara Ryan, Professor Martin Webber, Professor Katherine Runswick-Cole and Dr Sue Caton
Final outcome: Reject
NIHR207571: Understanding the Wellbeing and Support Needs of Carers of Parents with Bipolar
Conflicts: Professor Martin Webber, Professor Helen Weatherly and Professor Joy Adamson
Final outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR207644: A hybrid future? A mixed-methods study to explore how voluntary and community sector organisations could combine in-person and digital service delivery for adults with learning disabilities and/or autism
Conflicts: Professor Claire Surr
Final outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR207561: The implementation of hybrid child protection conferences in England: a scoping and practice development project
Conflicts: Dr Juliette Malley, Mrs Rachel Murphy and Dr Martin Elliott
Final outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR207575: Unmasking Social Care Inequalities: Using Routine Data to Enable Reablement Equity
Conflicts: Dr Juliette Malley
Final outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR207606: Supporting Social Workers’ Decision-Making About Complex Well-Being Problems: Developing and Testing a Training Programme to Improve Legal Literacy and Debias Cognition
Conflicts: Dr Reima Ana Maglajlic, Dr Juliette Malley and Mrs Rachel Murphy
Final outcome: Reject
NIHR207610: Co-producing social and community support resources for family carers of people with psychosis (OSMOSIS
Conflicts: Professor Helen Weatherly and Dr Juliette Malley
Final outcome: Invite to Stage 2
NIHR207591: Understanding the experiences of accessing local authority short break provisions for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities.
Conflicts: None
Final outcome: Reject
NIHR207613: Birth parent’s experiences of Residential Family Assessment Centres: improving practice through meaningful service user feedback.
Conflicts: None
Final outcome: Reject
NIHR207655: Meeting the needs of women experiencing severe and multiple disadvantage: Co-designing trauma-informed guidelines for social care practitioners
Conflicts: None
Final outcome: Reject
Outcomes Table
Funding Committees score applications on a range of 1-6. This table displays the number of applications awarded each score in the committee meeting. The tables exclude applications that were rejected during the scrutiny and triage processes, and no ranking within columns should be inferred.
RpSC will fund applications that score in the range of 4-6, although a score of 4-6 does not guarantee funding. In exceptional circumstances and with approval from the Programme Director, applications may be invited/funded that fall below the fundable range
| Score | Number of Applications Invited | Number of Applications Rejected |
|---|---|---|
| 5.0-6.0 | 3 | 0 |
| 4.0-4.9 | 7 | 0 |
| 3.0-3.9 | 0 | 4 |
| 2.0-2.9 | 0 | 5 |
| 1.0-1.9 | 0 | 0 |