The Health Research Council is delighted to announce its new Health Delivery Research Investment Round, and invites applications for four funding opportunities released today.
In June this year, we began the process of redesigning our investment in health delivery research. We undertook this redesign to enable a broader range of clinical and non-clinical health professionals to engage in health delivery research.
The new funding opportunities launched today as part of Phase 1 of the roll-out, are based on a pipeline approach to supporting and developing both research and researchers. With our project and people-focused pipelines (see diagram below), we will provide support across the whole continuum of health delivery research, from activation to translation, and from entry-level researchers through to research leaders or ‘champions'.
You can now apply for the following funding opportunities on HRC Gateway:
- Health Delivery Research Activation Grants: Up to $30,000 to enable established or prospective researchers/research providers to establish their health delivery evidence needs or research opportunities before applying for larger-scale funding.
- Health Delivery Research Project Grant: Up to $1.4 million for research projects connected to health delivery evidence needs.
- Health Sector Research Collaboration Grants (Pilot): Negotiated funding focused on upskilling and empowering health care or health service delivery organisations to engage in health delivery research, intensify research in health delivery settings, and ensure research adequately responds to health sector, patient and community needs. This pilot will start off with District Health Boards, with a view to expanding to other health providers in the future, including primary care and community, and Māori and Pacific providers.
- Health Delivery Research Career Development Awards: A development opportunity for health professionals (clinical or non-clinical) and academic health researchers to undertake a funded placement in a health delivery research team or health sector setting. Designed as an alternative pathway into health delivery research.
The launch of phase 2 will follow in the fourth quarter of 2020 with the remaining new funding opportunities:
- Health Delivery Translation Grants
- Health Delivery Research Training Fellowships
- Health Delivery Research Advanced Fellowships
- Health Delivery Research Leaders
Please read our Q&A document, which provides answers to some of the most common questions you may have about this redesign and outlines what it means for established researchers and health providers alike. Then head to HRC Gateway for the application guidelines and forms, and all the information you'll need in order to apply for one of our new health delivery research grants.
If you have further questions about the round, please contact HRC Research Investment Manager Luke Garland at lgarland@hrc.govt.nz or on 64 9 303 5214.