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 providing awards for clinicians, including allied health professionals, and clinical academics to backfill their time to help prepare grant applications. The domain expects that these awards will lead to an increase in high quality successful grant applications.
The awards allow staff working across the MAHSC partners to buy time for their 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 1 The grant applications should be part of a MAHSC 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 Phil Turner MAHSC IR Domain Academic Lead Tracy Hussell Acute Care and Trauma Paul Dark Dermatology Chris Griffiths, Lesley Rhodes, Tamara Griffiths Gastroenterology and Hepatology John McLaughlin, Arash Assadsangabi 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 on Monday 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 zoe.talks- [email protected] 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.
2 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 For example: 1 PA/week for 8 weeks or 2 PAs/week for 4 weeks, time you will work on the during September –October 2017 grant application
What is the amount of the For example: 20 PAs for 10 weeks at a cost of £3500. Step Up or Boost award you would like to apply for? This amount is the costings for the time needed (obtain from your clinical department) 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
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3 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 [email protected] by 12 noon on Monday 5 June 2017
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