In this edition of your member magazine, there's a special focus on supporting children and young people’s mental health, and the role paediatricians can play.
Express your creativity and indulge yourself with a bit of cooking! We're featuring members' favourite recipes, from Justin's Kakuni (pictured) to Katy Rose's plant-based dishes.
Live from this summer, Progress+ builds on the current curriculum, and will be flexible and fulfilling. Our FAQs, resources and updates outline what to expect.
We support our members and the wider child health workforce to be at the forefront of continuous QI, with opportunities to share resouces on our dedicated website, QI Central.
We develop guidelines in line with our NICE accreditation, comment on draft documents produced by NICE and other organisations, and provide a comprehensive directory.
We recognise that taking strike action is a personal choice. We have published frequently asked questions to support members, including advice especially for trainees and SAS doctors.
Members and young volunteers share stories and insights - from climate change action to living well with epilespy, supporting children's mental health to talking about poverty.
Funds tenured and non-tenured researchers, clinicians and non-clinicians to undertake high quality biomedical research and has no priority diseases or restrictions on the research area supported.
Provides five years of funding to enable talented clinicians to pursue academic research alongside their clinical practice.
Award programme/theme
Fellowship
Funding amount range
£250,001 to £500,000
Maximum duration
5 years
Wellcome Trust-MRC - Collaborative Award
Provides support to independent researchers with outstanding track records who want to address important scientific problems through collaborative team effort.
Award programme/theme
Partnership grant
Funding amount range
Over £500,000
Maximum duration
5 years
Submission deadline
Wellcome Trust - Investigator Award
Supports researchers to address the most important questions of relevance to human and animal health and disease.
Award programme/theme
Project grant
Funding amount range
Over £500,000
Maximum duration
7 years
The Henry Smith Charity - Grants
Provides grants for small and medium sized organisations in the UK to support projects and the running costs of organisations.
Award programme/theme
Project grant
Funding amount range
£50,001 to £100,000
Maximum duration
3 years
The Big Lottery - Empowering Young People (NI)
To fund projects that will build the skills and capabilities of young people to better face challenges in their lives.
Award programme/theme
Project grant
Funding amount range
£250,001 to £500,000
Maximum duration
3-5 years
Rosetrees Trust - Project Grants
Funds translational research that will lead to major advances in medical treatment. Priority will be projects addressing a key clinical need and have a good chance of being developed further towards clinical translation and patient benefit.
Award programme/theme
Project grant
Funding amount range
£100,001 to £250,000
Maximum duration
3 years
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) - Rapid Funding Scheme (RFS)
The Rapid Funding Scheme (RFS) offers researchers the opportunity to apply for funds to conduct rapid baseline data collection, as well as other feasibility work, prior to intervention implementation, for time-limited opportunities such as a natural experiment or similar evaluations of a new public health intervention.