Social Care Research Fellowship
The Social Care Research Fellowship scheme aims to support individuals to become independent researchers through leading and undertaking high-quality research.
The project element of the Fellowship should have clear relevance to social care service users, carers, practitioners and policy makers. Projects should provide robust evidence to support the efficient and effective organisation and delivery of social care services in Wales, and/or improved service user or carer wellbeing. Projects focused on pilot and feasibility work, or the early stages of intervention development, where knowledge obtained from these preliminary studies will inform larger future bids, are eligible.
All projects meeting the general remit in the call guidance are eligible for consideration. However, Health and Care Research Wales particularly welcomes applications addressing the following priority areas:
1. Children who are looked after, and reducing the need for children to be in care
2. People with dementia
3. Care and support at home
4. COVID-19
– the impact of COVID-19 on non-COVID-19 care service provision;
– learning from the COVID-19 pandemic that can be applied to the organisation and delivery of non-COVID19 social care services.
The fellowship offers up to three years full-time funding (or four or five years part-time).
The fellowship offers up to three years full-time funding (or four or five years part-time).
Applications are invited from individuals working across any sector or scientific discipline to undertake research which will benefit social care and support services, service users and/or carers in Wales and to individuals who have no more than 60-months Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) postdoctoral research experience at the time of applying.
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