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Philip Poole-Wilson Seed Corn Fund to nurture new research ideas

Applications in 2010

Please read this important information before considering applying for a Bupa Foundation grant.

Future applications for this seed corn fund may be made for exploratory/pilot research projects in any of the Foundation’s areas of interest:

• surgery
• preventive medicine and epidemiology
• health information and communication between patients and health professionals
• health at work
• mental health of older people

If you are a healthcare professional involved in research or university based researcher with an interest in health or social care with a great idea for new research in one of these areas, you can apply for a grant to help you develop your ideas. This could be to support pilot work, for example, or to bring together a team of people to work on a proposal.

The Seed Corn Fund has a total of £200,000 per annum to provide individual seed corn grants of up to £20,000 per proposal. The maximum award is £20,000 and it is expected that activities funded would be completed within a year.

Please note that each application must be made either by a researcher beginning their research career or if a pilot project by an experienced researcher, must include such a researcher on the team and contribute meaningfully to his/her development and training.

High priority will be given to applications from young and/or new researchers who have not previously been funded.

This grant round takes place once a year.

Applications will need to be received by 3 August at 5pm for review at our November Board meeting.

How to apply

Apply online at grants.bupafoundation.co.uk

Standard terms and conditions of Bupa Foundation grant apply

2009 Philip Poole-Wilson Seed Corn Grants

The Bupa Foundation is pleased to announce the results of the inaugural round of the Philip Poole-Wilson Seed Corn Fund.

The Bupa Foundation Board recognises the work that is entailed in preparing an application and would like to thank all those who applied. There was a very good response and an extremely high standard of entries overall.

Grants awarded in 2009 (in alphabetical order)

Dr Sarah Barnes - Univeristy of Sheffield, Department of Public Health (ScHARR)
£19,924.00 for project
'Pre-protocol work to develop a randomised controled trial to enhance patient-professional communication about end of life issues in life limiting conditions other than cancer'.

Dr Katherine Berry - University of Manchester, School of Psychological Sciences
£19,463.00 for project
'Feasibility of a nurse-led psycho-social group intervention for older people with schizophrenia'.

Dr Girish Dwivedi - University of Birmingham, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
£20,000 for project
'Myocardial perfusion usng myocardial contrast echocardiography:relationship to retinal and systemic macro/micro-vascular dysfunction in hypertension'.

Miss Lanxing Fu - University of Manchester, School of Medicine
£3,200 for project
'Psychological distress in people with disfigurement from facial palsy'.

Dr Gunn Grande, University of Manchester, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work
£x19,946 for project
'Piloting a carer support needs assessment tool to facilitate communication in palliative home care practice'.

Mrs Jean Hennings - University of Lancaster, Department of Health Research
£19,982 for project
'Improving end of life care for those in dementia homes: a pilot study'.

Mr David Humes - University of Nottingham, Dept of Surgery
£20,000 for project
'An investigation of the epidemiology of complicated diverticular disease using linked primary and secondary care data'.

Dr Louise Michaelis - University of Southampton, DOHaD
£20,000 for project
'Does ante-natal vitamin D supplementation deviate the neo-natal immune response away from the allergic phenotype?'.

Dr Shilpa Patel - University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School Clinical Trials Unit
£19,866 for project
'Group exercise for community dwelling older adults with osteoarthritis'.

Dr Rami Salib - University of Southampton, Division of Infection, Inflammation and Immunity
£20,000 for project
'Characterisation of bacterial and fungal community diversity in chronic rhinosinusitis using a novel culture-independent technique'.

Ms Fiona Smith - NHS Highlands, Older Adults Community Mental Health Team
£19,952 for project
'Improving mental well-being of well older people through provision of integrated memory stimulation'.

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