REQUEST ADVICE
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RDS YH Public Involvement in Grant Applications Funding Award - Call 26
Click above to find out more about applying for a grant to support patient and public involvement in the design stage of your research.

Make it Clear
Click to find out more about the NIHR's campaign to make sure each study it funds has a clear and concise plain English summary.

NETSCC Online Resources Survey
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ScHARRHUD
Click the link to access ScHARRHUD - a free, searchable web-based resource holding bibliographic details of studies reporting health state utility values (HSUVs).

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Checking that a research idea is really novel
Click to view Claire Beecroft's guide to establishing if your research idea is original.
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The National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Research Design Service Yorkshire and the Humber (RDS YH) provides advice and support to applied health and social care researchers to help them to develop and design high quality research proposals for submission to NIHR and other national, peer-reviewed funding competitions. Support is provided free of charge.

The RDS can

• Help researchers to develop their ideas and design high quality research proposals for submission to national, peer-reviewed funding competitions.

• Provide access to a range of specialist expertise in research design, including advice on research synthesis, study design and methodology (quantitative and qualitative), statistics and health economics.

• Signpost researchers to other sources of expert advice on the applied health and social care research system.

Face-to-face advice is available, supported by telephone and email. Complete our online ‘Request for Advice and Support’ form and we will be in touch to arrange an appointment.

Please contact us at rds-yh@sheffield.ac.uk or telephone our general enquiries number on 0114 222 0828 for more information.

This drop-in information event is hosted by the Clinical Research Office (CRO) at STH and the Research Design Service Yorkshire and Humber (RDS YH).
The event is aimed at Allied Health Professionals who are interested in applying to NIHRs Trainees Commissioning Centre (TCC) for a fellowship grant. If you are interested in other types of NIHR fellowships you are very welcome to come along for some informal advice.

You can view the event flyer here and book a place here.

NIHR Fellowship Deadlines and RDS Review Panels

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