Applications are invited for the 2007 practice research awards
The Pharmacy Practice Research Trust is inviting applications for 2007 pharmacy practice research awards worth £55,000 in total.
The practice research awards, which are administered by the trust on
behalf of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, are intended to build research
capacity in pharmacy practice. The trust has granted 11 awards since
the scheme was established and it has funded research covering issues
such as medication safety, patient attitudes, self-care, concordance
and skill mix.
Pharmacists wishing to start or develop a research career are encouraged
to apply. Awards are available for:
• Those requiring funding between PhD and postdoctoral grants
• Those requiring funding to go from MPhil to PhD
• Practitioners new to research
• PhD students requiring “research costs” to enhance their
PhDs
The awards can also be used to fund new areas of research, such as pre-pilot
and feasibility studies that would not be considered by other funding
bodies.
Two types of practice research award are available — Galen awards
and Sir Hugh Linstead fellowships. One or more Galen awards are made
annually to a total value of £10,000 funded by a bequest by Rowland
Henry Williams. One or more Linstead Fellowship are made annually to
a total value of £45,000 funded by a grant from the Leverhulme
Trade Charities Trust to support research relating to community pharmacy.
Dyfrig Hughes, who won a Galen award in 2004, said: “The Galen
award has afforded me unrivalled personal and professional opportunities,
provided both formal and informal training opportunities and enhanced
my experience in the areas of community pharmacy and pharmacy practice
research, an area in which there is a nationally identified gap.”
The deadline for all completed applications for the awards is 25 May
and it is expected that interviews will be held on 10 July 2007 at the
Society’s London headquarters.
Further details, application forms and guidance notes are available from
Beth Allen, Research Programme Co-ordinator, Royal Pharmaceutical Society,
1 Lambeth High Street, London SE1 7JN (tel 020 7572 2466; e-mail beth.allen@rpsgb.org)
or from the practice research awards page in the “Awards
and scholarships” section
of the Society’s website.
Brief information about the Pharmacy Practice Research trust is set out
in the Panel (below). Further information is available from Beth Allen
or the Society’s website
The practice research trust
The Pharmacy Practice Research Trust was established by the Royal
Pharmaceutical Society in 1999 as an independent research charity.
Its broad objective is to promote and develop research relating
to the practice of pharmacy. It aims to promote research that
will enable policy makers, manufacturers, prescribers and others
to
better understand the people who use medicines and the contexts
in which they do so.
As well as offering awards and bursaries, the trust, through
its “Medicines
and people” research programme, commissions research relating
to the place of medicines in society and the practice of pharmacy.
It also aims to stimulate debate and spread knowledge about medicines
and the people who use and take them and to develop a new generation
of academic leaders who can lead the debate and inform thinking,
particularly within pharmacy.
The trust is governed by a board of trustees and managed by staff
from the Society’s research and development division. The
trustees are drawn from among senior health policy makers, leading
academics,
industrialists and retailers.
The Society provides core funding for the trust as part of its
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