Dear ISPRNers,
I am writing to inform you that the following grants are now open:
HEART FOUNDATION GRANTS – NOW OPEN
Future Leader Fellowships
Closing date: Wednesday 15 April 2015 Intending applicants should advise Sharon Clarke clarke@uow.edu.au and provide a draft for review at least 2 weeks before the scheme closing date. The purpose of Future Leader Fellowships is to provide support to researchers to develop as independent researchers and become leaders of cardiovascular research groups. Two levels of Future Leader Fellowships will be offered: Level 1: For researchers three to less than seven years post awarding of their PhD on the application closing date. Level 2: For researchers seven to less than ten years post awarding of their PhD on the application closing date.
Postdoctoral Fellowships
Closing date: Friday 24 April 2015 Intending applicants should advise Sharon Clarke clarke@uow.edu.au and provide a draft for review at least 2 weeks before the scheme closing date.
Available to PhD graduates less than three years post awarding of their PhD on the application closing date. This award helps promising early career cardiovascular researchers further develop research skills and become more competitive for future funding.
Vanguard Grants
Closing date: Friday 1 May 2015 Intending applicant should advise Sharon Clarke clarke@uow.edu.au and provide a draft for review by Monday 20 April.
Vanguard Grants will provide funding to test the feasibility of innovative concepts in public health and/or health services (including clinical service delivery) which may lead to larger rigorous studies in the future.
Funding is available to researchers with an adequate research track record and a concept study with the potential to improve cardiovascular health in the short term.
Eligibility criteria: Open to all cardiovascular researchers (Note: This award does not fund basic clinical or biomedical research)
Duration: 1 year Value: Up to $75,000
Family Medical Care Education and Research Grant
The Family Medical Care Education and Research (FMCER) grants have been offered by the RACGP since 1980. The aim of the grant is to encourage and support general practitioners in the early stages of their research career to conduct research into an aspect of primary health care. The objective of the grant is to advance education in, and research into, medical knowledge and science.
Award Details
The Family Medical Care Education and Research (FMCER) grants are available for a 12 month period to provide new and emerging GP researchers with an opportunity to conduct research. Funding of up to $20,000 (excluding GST) is available for research that benefits primary health care. Two grants are available.
Eligibility
To be eligible for an FMCER grant, the Principal Investigator must be:
- a general practitioner or general practice registrar; and
- a member of the RACGP; and
- an early career researcher.
Additionally, the project must relate directly to general practice.
Selection criteria
Applications will be assessed against the following criteria:
- training potential for applicants 20%
- scientific quality of the proposed research project 30%
- significance and either originality or innovation 20%
- feasibility of carrying out and completing the research in a one-year timeframe 10%
- value for money 10%
- potential to build capacity in general practice research 10%
Applications close 11 May 2015, 5.00 pm, AEST
http://foundation.racgp.org.au/information/familymedicalcare/
RACGP Chris Silagy Research Scholarship
This scholarship is named in honour of Professor Christopher Allen Silagy, AO MBBS PhD FRACGP FAFPHM. At the age of 31 Chris was awarded a PhD by Monash University for his research into the prevention of cardiovascular disease in the elderly. The same year he received the Sir Robert Menzies Memorial Scholarship in Medicine; the first general practitioner to ever receive this prestigious award. Chris worked in the Department of Public Health & Primary Care at the University of Oxford for two years, during which time he became involved with the Cochrane Collaboration, dedicated to the development of evidence-based medicine.
At the age of 32, Chris was appointed as Foundation Professor of General Practice and Head of the Department of Evidence-Based Care and General Practice at Flinders University. He was also appointed inaugural Director of the Australasian Cochrane Centre and was chair of the International Steering Group of the Cochrane Collaboration from 1996 to 1998. He was subsequently appointed as Professor of Public Health and Foundation Director of the Monash Institute of Health Services Research, and as chair of the Board of the National Institute of Clinical Studies. In 1998 he received the Rose Hunt Medal from the RACGP for his exceptional contribution to Australian general practice.
In the 2000 Queen’s Birthday honours list, at the age of 39, Chris was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) for service to medicine, particularly in the areas of research and education, and in developments in the field of evidence-based medicine. He had a distinguished career as a GP and medical researcher and was a key international figure in the discipline of evidence-based medicine.
Award Details
The Chris Silagy Research Scholarship is designed to support a 12 month research project into an aspect of evidence-based primary health care by a general practitioner researcher. The scholarship is to the value of $15,000 (excluding GST) which includes a return economy airfare for the recipient to either attend a meeting of the Cochrane Collaboration, or visit a Cochrane Research Centre during the year of the scholarship.
Eligibility
To be eligible for the Chris Silagy Research Scholarship, the Principal Investigator must be:
- a general practitioner or general practice registrar; and
- a member of the RACGP; and
- currently undertaking a higher degree (Masters, PhD, MD) or have completed such a course in the past five years.
Selection criteria
Applications will be assessed against the following criteria:
- training potential for applicants 20%
- scientific quality of the proposed research project 30%
- significance to an aspect of evidence-based primary health and either originality or innovation 20%
- feasibility of carrying out and completing the research in a one-year timeframe 10%
- value for money 10%
- potential to build capacity in general practice research 10%
Applications close 11 May 2015, 5.00 pm, AEST
http://foundation.racgp.org.au/information/chrissilagy/
Kind Regards
Alyssa Munkman
Illawarra and Southern Practice Research Co-ordinator
Assistant to Roberta Williams Chair of General Practice, Professor Andrew Bonney
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