UWE Personal Research Training Awards
The UWE professional research training awards for Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals are open for applications for Autumn 2024. The UWE Personal Research Training awards is for applicants who are involved in delivery of services for one of the following Integrated Care Systems (ICS): Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Partnership, Healthier Together Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire and One Gloucestershire. Applicants from those outside these ICSs that have links to UWE (i.e. placement provider for UWE) may also be considered. Priority will be given to applicants who have not yet completed a Masters degree. The awards provide academic fees for health professionals to complete a Masters level research methods module or dissertation module. Further information about these awards is available from the NIHR ARC West training webpages: https://arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/training-and-capacity-building/ or by contacting Alison Diaper (Alison.Diaper@uwe.ac.uk). The closing date for completed applications is 5pm, Wednesday 13th November 2024.
New Research Internship Opportunities for Health and Care Professionals/Practitioners in the South West region
National Health Service England (NHSE) South West are delighted to offer an expanded research internship programme for health and care professionals and practitioners (HCPs) this Autumn, 2024. These personal development awards are part of extra funding from the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) to help HCPs become skilled researchers and research leaders as part of the NIHR research career funding programme.
The expanded internship awards are for HCPS in clinical or practitioner roles including enhanced and advanced practitioners, in research delivery and as emerging clinical academics. The award can be used build a plan for personal research development for advancing a research positive culture, embedding research into practice, building organisational leadership capacity for research, advancing specialism of research delivery or clinical/practitioner academic development.
To apply for this expanded internship award, you will need to complete the online application form by the closing date of 6pm, Wednesday 18th December 2024. Further information about the award is available on the following webpages: Developing a research skilled workforce (SW), ARC South West Peninsula, ARC West and ARC Wessex or by contacting SW.ICAP@nihr.ac.uk. The guidance notes for the award includes the information about how to apply for this award.