NIHR – PHR – Local Authority Research System Call

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NIHR recognises that innovation is happening in some local authorities and wants to explore how current, or new, systems could be developed, at a local level, to support sustainable and influential research activity.
This call provides specific funding (up to £50,000 per site) for up to 10 sites across the UK. This funding will be available between May and September 2020 and is to fund the exploration of how a local authority might form the basis of a research system that will enable that authority to become research active.

Applications are welcomed from throughout the UK and may be from an individual or group. Applicants need to be able to:

  • contract with NIHR via a host institution or other organisation.
  • demonstrate that they have the support of the local Director of Public Health, or equivalent, in the geography proposed to undertake this work.
  • demonstrate that they have the skills and time to undertake the work in the timeframe stipulated

The deadline for the call is Friday 24 April at 1pm. For more information on the call please see the NIHR webpage