Funding for education research mini-projects
The trust
The Pharmacy Practice Research Trust is an independent research
charity established in 1999 to promote and develop pharmacy practice
research.
The Society provides core funding as part of its investment in
practice research. The trustees are drawn from senior health
policy makers, academics, industrialists and retailers.
The grants for education research are offered as part of the
trust’s “Learning
from innovation in pharmacy education” programme, which aims
to promote research that will enable policy makers, manufacturers,
prescribers and others to better understand people who use medicines
and the contexts in which they use them.
Information about the trust can be obtained from Zoe Whittington
at the Society (tel 020 7572 2276; e-mail zoe.whittington@rpsgb.org). |
The Pharmacy Practice Research Trust, which is supported by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, has made £50,000 available to fund mini-projects to investigate the development of pharmacy education.
Project proposals for up to £5,000 are invited for research that
will be completed by October 2006 from pharmacy education providers (undergraduate,
preregistration and post-registration) to undertake research evaluating
any aspect of pharmacy education.
As well as funding research costs the trust will host a learning event
in 2006 to share the results of the mini-projects with key stakeholders.
The trustees welcome proposals that could attract matched funding from
the host university.
The main purposes of the mini-project scheme are to support dissemination
of good practice to a wider audience, to promote collaboration to enhance
new and existing projects and partnerships and to pump-prime feasibility
studies in innovative areas. A longer-term aim is to promote evaluation
and high quality educational research studies, including systematic review.
Proposals on any aspect of pharmacy education are welcome, but the trustees
have identified three priority areas in which they are particularly interested.
These are the development and evaluation of work-based learning (for
example, in placements), the development and validation of assessment
methods and the selection of entrants to pharmacy education.
Sue Ambler, trust director, said: “The pharmacy education R&D
reference group report identified that while several schools of pharmacy
had been involved in innovation in education provision — integrated
curriculum, workplace learning, inter-professional learning — on
the whole the learning from these developments was not shared by pharmacy
academics. There is a need to undertake research on developments in pharmacy
education in order to contribute to the evidence base, to develop research
capacity and to encourage dissemination of innovation in this area.”
Further details and application forms are available from Beth Allen,
Research Administrator, Royal Pharmaceutical Society, 1 Lambeth High
Street, London SE1 7JN (tel 020 7572 2466; e-mail beth.allen@rpsgb.org).
The deadline for applications is 18 July.
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