Digital Collaborative Awards: Funding call open for researchers and digital healthcare SMEs
A new funding award will support two small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to develop a collaboration with academics or clinicians in an NHS or social care setting, leading to a study on the NIHR portfolio.
The award is being funded by the four local Clinical Research Networks (CRNs) in the south east of England, which are part of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). That includes:
- CRN Kent, Surrey and Sussex
- CRN North Thames
- CRN North West London
- CRN South London
The money can be used to fund sessional times for academics or clinicians, research assistance, or to facilitate meetings.
One of the key priorities for the NIHR CRN is to deliver research within under-served communities, specialties and key areas of health inequalities.
The collaborations must lead to the development, refinement or optimisation of an innovation that fulfils the following three criteria:
- involves a digital technology
- addresses an unmet clinical and/or social care or community need
- improves outcomes for under-served communities
Improving outcomes for under-served communities could be in the form of:
- developing a robust evidence base to better understand impediments in health systems and biases that have resulted in the under-representation in our research of some communities
- improving the diversity of research participants in the studies the NIHR supports and the voices of those who shape our research agenda
- embedding diversity and inclusion in the NHS and social care processes
- helping to improve the health and social outcome or wellbeing of under-served communities
Applications close 31 July 2023.
