In this blog by Chair of the NIHR Doctoral Fellowship and RDS London Fellowship information session guest speaker, Professor Gary Frost, he outlines what he thinks makes an excellent application.
This guide will help you to start the process of transforming your idea into a research question.
Tips and resources on how to write a research proposal.
Here you'll find guidance on how to source and create a research team.
A list of websites that provides information about UK funding for health and social care research.
This information is about how to conduct a brief, systematic review in support of a primary research grant application.
Systematic reviews are essential components of the research funded by NIHR and other organisations. This guide provides information about how to apply.
A free course from the NIHR for those wishing to pursue a career in health research
A comprehensive list of resources compiled by Jill Russell and Christie Cabral
In this RDS blog, Michael Grayling from RDS NENC defines Innovative Designs, when to use them and how the RDS can help.
Information about health economics and how to apply it to your research and grant application.
Information and resources to support your Research for Social Care funding applications.
This podcast series from the NIHR aim to inform, educate and answer the common questions around the management and delivery of complex and innovative design trials.
New approaches for designing, conducting and analysing clinical trials are playing an important role in improving their efficiency. Find out more about how Platform Trials are doing this in the RDS blog by James Wason with contributions by RDS London's Directer and Deputy Director.
This document provides practical insights for researchers on how to engage more diverse participants in health research.
The NIHR INCLUDE Impaired Capacity to Consent Framework is a tool for researchers to ensure that their trial is designed to be inclusive of people with impaired capacity to consent, as well as improving the quality of the trial design and funding application.
This resource has been developed by the to support you to better understand how to embed EDI in your research design and to meet the NIHR’s requirements. The toolkit advocates for best practice which also goes beyond the NIHR's current requirements.
The EDI strategy 2022-2027 will ensure we deliver on our commitment to EDI through the collaborative implementation of inclusive practice in our research, culture and systems. It will at once enable us to address issues across the entire NIHR people framework, whilst empowering better health outcomes for the national and global community.
In this event video series you can watch talks on: COVID-19 in minority ethnic populations, reframing diversity and inclusion, research involving the LGBTQ community and involving people with disabilities in research.
The transgender population has been subject to a troubled history of ethically and methodologically flawed research practices. Whilst interest and ethical standards have both risen, there remains little specific methodological consideration of research with transgender participants. This article draws on practical experiences of doing research with transgender communities, and insider group status, to construct six categories to consider when working on trans-focused research.
This student-led training provides advice on engaging with marginalised groups and understanding secondary data on these groups with a specific focus on the LGBTQ+ community.
This letter seeks to synthesise methodological issues encountered in a cohort of Wellcome Trust-funded research projects focusing on sexualities and health.
How can intersex people be included effectively in research studies and surveys? Clinical research is subject to implicit and explicit assumptions and methodological issues that adversely affect the quality of clinical evidence. The following principles set out Intersex Human Rights Australia's policy and guidance on studying this population.
In this NIHR blog find out more about how the INCLUDE initiative will help trials better reflect all members of society.
A toolkit for increasing participation of BAME groups in health and care research.
Improve trial delivery for under-served groups using this framework to help trial teams think carefully about which ethnic groups should be included, so results are widely applicable.
What are some of the things to think about to become more inclusive in public involvement in health and care research? How do we develop inclusive research communities? This document is intended to be a helpful series of prompts for researchers and for those whose job it is to support public involvement in research.
In this guidance from the INCLUDE project, you can find information on what an under-served group is, a roadmap suggesting intervention points to improve inclusion, examples of under-served groups, example barriers to inclusion, a suggested framework of questions to guide the deliberations of funders, researchers and delivery teams, and examples of good practice.
This toolkit aims is to ensure that you understand impact and that impact planning, knowledge mobilisation and implementation issues are considered and embedded into your research design and application development process.
Against the background of societal and institutional demand, and the proliferation of advice and discourse on research impact, the authors of this paper introduce their key set of principles or tools for researchers - “7Cs for Impact”: Context, Communities, Constituencies, Challenge, Channels, Communication and Capture.
This guidance is for researchers, chief investigators, funders, and sponsors who are responsible for sharing findings to participants. All types of research studies should consider communicating study findings to participants.
RIC's resources focus on dissemination and capacity building for knowledge mobilisation, providing tools and support that promote best practices and innovative approaches. The resources are freely accessible.
Generating impact from research is highly context dependent, takes time, involves serendipity, and, often, comprises a series of small incremental changes carried out collaboratively. Find out more and access toolkits.
In this RDS London handbook, we to address some of the common questions and misunderstandings about public involvement that we have come across over the years helping researchers apply for research funding.
An RDS brief guide to public involvement.
The UK Standards for Public Involvement are designed to improve the quality and consistency of public involvement in research.
In this video, Charlotte explains the role of patient and public involvement in research and how RDS London can support you.
In this national blog, RDS advisers and public contributors address what you need to consider when undertaking PPI during lockdown.
Co-producing a research project is an approach in which researchers, practitioners and the public work together, sharing power, knowledge generation and responsibility from the start to the end of the project.
This new training and resources page for public involvement from the NIHR replaces the INVOLVE website: invo.org.uk
The NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals's toolkit gives a step by step guide to help you implement PPI in your research.
This publication provides an introduction for researchers who are new to PPI.
NIHR INVOLVE's pack details how to get actively involved in NHS, public health and social care research.
The Patient Experience Research Centre at Imperial College London specialises in participatory approaches to health care and research. They have developed some new PPI resources for researchers to use.
Read our tips for writing the lay summary of your research proposal.
Find insight into the issues of PPI with children and young people.
Information about payment when involving patients and the public in research.
A joint ethics study conducted by the National Research Ethics Service (NRES) and NIHR INVOLVE.
This paper looks at approaches to setting priorities with patients and the public.
This report details the work of senior investigators and the different ways they include the public across all stages of the research process.
This document addresses the difference that public involvement makes to the research process, the impact of involvement on researchers and the public, and gaps in PPI in health and social care research drawing on the use of case study examples to illustrate the advantages and pitfalls.
If you’re interested in taking part in health research or discovering how to get involved in supporting health research, this course will help to answer your questions before you make the decision.
This guidance from the Office for health improvement and disparities helps public health practitioners conducting evaluations developing a logic model to represent how your intervention works.
Useful templates for logic models from University of Wisconsin-Madison.
The CHAIN network is open to anyone working in health and social care, in the public, voluntary, educational or private sector.
Sam Norton explains how to use statistics methods in your research application.
This guide explains how to calculate sample size for a clinical trial.
Prof Richard Hooper explains how to justify sample size for a feasibility study.
This guide explains what clustered data is, when it occurs and how to deal with it.
We supported Dr Afia Ali when she applied for a NIHR Public Health Research Programme
We first helped Dr Naaheed Mukadam when she approached us for assistance with her NIHR Doctoral Research Fellowship
A national Research Design Service collection of resources created by our teams across the country, covering EDI, Public Involvement, Impact, our blogs and more...