Applications Now Open for Step up and Boost Awards

Applications Now Open for Step up and Boost Awards

MAHSC Inflammation and Repair Domain

Applications now open for Step Up and Boost awards:

Facilitating the preparation of grant applications

Closing date: Monday 5 June 2017

Overview

  • The MAHSC Inflammation and Repair Domain is providingawards for clinicians, including allied health professionals, and clinical academics to backfill their time tohelp prepare grant applications. The domain expects that these awards will lead to an increase in high quality successful grant applications.
  • The awardsallowstaff working across the MAHSC partners to buy time fortheir clinical and other sessions. This will free up time for staff to dedicate to the preparation of grant applications.
  • The awards are for short-term funding based on releasing award holders from clinical and other duties for a certain number of PAs per week on a temporary basis.
  • The awards are flexible in how the time is used and are available up to a maximum of four working weeks (40 PAs), either taken as a block or taken as half-days/days.For example, you may require 1-4 weeks on full PAs or 1-2 PAs/week for 1-2 months.

Awards Available

Step Up: These awards are for MAHSC colleagues who have little experience in securing grant applications and who are looking to break into funded research. Step Up will be used to buy time for the award holder to work on the grant application and network with experienced grant holders.

Boost:These awards are for committed clinical academics who have secured significant project funding. The award would be used as an opportunity to move up to larger high value programme grant or Senior Fellowship level. Boost will be used to buy time for the award holder to work on the grant application.

Look here: Case Study of a MAHSC IR Domain Step Up award recipient

Guidance

  • Step Up and Boost are to be used for grant applications consistent with the MAHSC Inflammation and Repair Domain theme and should address one of the domain’s three objectives:

1 / Deliver a stratified and targeted approach to the management of patients with inflammatory and degenerative disease
2 / Improve long-term outcomes for inflammatory disease by enhancing drug safety and minimising co-morbidities
3 / Develop novel approaches to repair and rehabilitation
  • The grant applications should be part of aMAHSC Inflammation and Repair Domain specialty; shown below. Please contact the Specialty Leads if you require informal discussion.

MAHSC IR Domain Specialty / Specialty Lead
MAHSC IR Domain Clinical Lead
MAHSC IR Domain Academic Lead / Phil Turner
Tracy Hussell
Acute Care and Trauma / Paul Dark
Dermatology / Chris Griffiths, Lesley Rhodes, Tamara Griffiths
Gastroenterology and Hepatology / John McLaughlin, ArashAssadsangabi
Infection / Andrew Turner, Jeremy Derrick
Musculoskeletal / Anne Barton
Orthopaedics / Leela Biant
Respiratory and Allergy / Rob Niven
Renal / Sandip Mitra
Tissue Injury and Repair / Judith Hoyland
  • The domain encourages applications that have potential to benefit more than one speciality area.
  • Priority will be given to high value applications, particularly to the NIHR and MRC.
  • Step Up and Boost award holders must submit their applications to MAHSC peer review processes, where they are available, for example for NIHR Research for Patient Benefit.
  • The awards are available to colleagues working at one of the MAHSC partners:

Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Manchester Mental Health and Social Care Trust

Salford Clinical Commissioning Group

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust

The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

The University of Manchester

University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust

Application Process

  • Applications must have the approval of the applicant’s Clinical Director.
  • The deadline for applications to the MAHSC IR Domain is 12 noon onMonday 5 June 2017.
  • Applications should be made on the form on Pages 3-4 and be submitted, as an email attachment (no longer than 2 pages of A4 and font size no smaller than arial ten)to
  • Please contact Zoë Talks on 701 0720 or via email for more information.

Selection Process

  • Selection of Step Up and Boost awards will be made by the MAHSC Inflammation and Repair Domain Operational Group, made up of the Domain Specialty Leads and Domain Executive Leads.

Reporting

  • Step Up and Boost award holders will share with the MAHSC Inflammation and Repair Domain Operational Group the submitted grant application and feedback received on the application.

MAHSC Inflammation and Repair Domain: Step Up and Boost awards

Facilitating the preparation of grant applications

Application Form

Closing date: 12 noon on Monday 5 June 2017

Your details
Name
Role
Institution
Contact details
Which award are you applying for:Step Up or Boost?
Amount of time needed
(up to a maximum of 4 working weeks/ 40 PAs)
Approximate date(s)and time you will work on the grant application / For example: 1 PA/week for 8 weeks or 2 PAs/week for 4 weeks, during September –October 2017
What is the amount of the Step Up or Boost award you would like to apply for? This amount is the costingsfor the time needed (obtain from your clinical department) / For example: 20 PAs for 10 weeks at a cost of £3500.
Clinical Director approval
(insert name and e-signature)
Information on the grant application that Step Up/Boost award will support
Title of the grant application
Continued overleaf
Information on the grant application that Step Up/Boost award will support
Aims and objectives of the grant application
Summary of proposed research
Expected outcomes
Proposed funding body and approximate funding total
Deadline for grant application
Who are your potential collaborators and mentors?

Please return via email to by 12 noon on Monday 5 June 2017

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