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Local Research Funding Committee Grant Schemes

The aim of these grants is to pump-prime larger grants especially to NIHR that will ultimately benefit UHBW patients, staff and the wider NHS. For more details of funding priorities and eligible costs please refer to the guidance document. 

Applications may be made for grants of up to £25,000 or £50,000 and are welcomed from any medical or non-medical UHBW employee or University of Bristol or West of England academic holding an honorary contract with UHBW.  University employees who do not currently hold an honorary contract are eligible to apply if they collaborate with a UHBW employee who is a named co-applicant.

Closing dates for these grants are on 15 OCTOBER and 30 APRIL each year.

Joint RCF/BWHC grants (up to £25,000)

Grants of up to £25,000 will be allocated by the UHBW Research Funding Committee from a combination of:

a) Bristol and Weston Hospitals Charity (BWHC) which has generously allocated monies for research at UHBW.

b) Research Capability Funding (RCF) which is a research funding stream made available by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) to help research-active NHS organisations attract, develop and retain high quality research, clinical and support staff. NIHR RCF allocated to UHBW can be used to fund one or both of the following:

i) Research Sessions/PAs (for medical and non-medical staff), usually for a maximum of 12-months, to allow time to prepare one or more NIHR research grant applications.

ii) The generation of preliminary or underpinning data to support a subsequent NIHR grant application.

Decisions on which is the most appropriate source of funding for a specific project will be made by the Committee, once a decision to fund has been made.

BWHC Legacy Research grants (up to £50,000)

Grants of up to £50,000 will be allocated by the UHBW Research Funding Committee from very generous bequests which have been made to Bristol and Weston Hospitals Charity (BWHC) for research focused around:

  • Cancer (general)
  • Bowel Cancer
  • Breast Cancer
  • Ophthalmology
  • Neuroscience and Mental Health
  • Orthopaedics

Since this funding is for preparatory work only, we would not normally expect that the proposed project will require HRA/NHS ethics approvals. Please provide a justification if such approvals are required and the resulting impact on the timelines to deliver the project.

Please subscribe to our email distribution list to receive announcements of forthcoming calls.  Email research.grants@uhbw.nhs.uk to subscribe.

For any queries on either of these funding streams please contact the R&D Grants Manager, Dr Elinor Griffiths, on 0117 34 29883 or via research.grants@uhbw.nhs.uk.

Downloads

Application form 

Terms and Conditions and Guidance