The BRC, with funding from the Wellcome Trust, is inviting applications to a new Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) bursary fund.
In a groundbreaking scheme, researchers are invited to apply for up to £2,000 for initiatives that actively involve lay people in the planning, design and execution of biomedical research at UCL and UCLH. There is also one bursary of £4,000 available for cutting-edge and innovative PPI. A total of £10,000 is available in this round.
The aim of the fund is to not only embed PPI in the research process across UCL/UCLH biomedical research but also to make sure PPI has a beneficial impact on research and is a good experience for both the public and researchers.
Priorities of the bursary fund are to:
- enable researchers to involve patients and the public at an early stage in their research
- promote PPI that has a demonstrable and meaningful impact on research
- improve the quality and effectiveness of PPI activities already taking place
- find imaginative and innovative ways of involving patients and the public
- encourage the active involvement of patients and the public in setting research priorities and the strategic development of research.
Deadline for applications, which can be for PPI in one particular project or group of projects, or in setting research priorities at departmental or divisional level, is 5pm 21 October 2013.
