Inequalities research earns second round of grant funding
Our Research and Innovation Team have been awarded a £25,480 grant from the Clinical Research Network/Research Delivery Network enabling them to extend their health inequalities project looking at increasing diversity in research until March 2025. It follows the success of the first phase of their project, for which the team was awarded over £32,000.
Natasher Lafond, Vicky Davison and Tracey Elder originally applied for funding from January 2024 to September 2024 for completion of a public and patient involvement and engagement project. During the first phase of the work, they interviewed 108 people, asking about their experience of research and what the barriers and solutions are to help them to take part.
This new grant, beginning in October and to run until the end of March 2025, will enable them to refine their findings into a set of principles or guidelines to begin to support under-served communities to be included in research that can then be tested in Derbyshire. They said: “Most importantly this extra funding gives us the opportunity to continue working with the amazing people we have met as part of this project.”
The Research & Innovation Team are happy to support other aspiring researchers to start their research journey with help to signpost, apply for funding or support to build a research proposal and much, much more. Please contact the team at research.enquiries@nhs.net or visit Research and Innovation for more information about the ways you can get involved in research at DCHS.