| From RDS South Central
Welcome to the latest issue of the RDS South central Bulletin.
Since we started in January 2009 we have now supported many research teams with their application for funding.
We are pleased to announce that we have recently started working on our 300th study. From highly experienced teams requiring us to help check through their application to new researchers needing full support to build a research team, the RDS is here to help. |
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| RfPB Deadline
Don’t forget that the deadline for submission to RfPB competition 13 is Friday May 21.
The RDS is pleased to be supporting a number of researchers with their application and wishes them well with their bids for funding. |
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The RDS Statistical considerations for grant applications Masterclass is fast aproaching!
This two-day programme looks at the statistical considerations of grant applications and will be held in Oxford on 26&27 May.It is FREE OF CHARGE to NHS researchers based in the South Central region.
Click here to find out more and to book your place.
SDO annual conference
Delivering better health services: 2-3 June 2010, Manchester Central
The annual SDO research conference has now been announced. Please click here for details and to book your place. |
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i4i funding call
The Invention for Innovation (i4i) Programme wishes to invite outline proposals of up to 36 months to build upon the results of a completed assessment of feasibility to produce a medical device or product through further technological improvements or developments.
The 3rd Call for i4i Stream 2 (Initial product development) opens on Wednesday 21 April 2010. 
Stream 2 outline proposals must be submitted electronically no later than 5pm on Friday 4 June 2010.
SDO funding call
The NIHR SDO programme will has opened a call for research into promising innovations in healthcare delivery. Innovations to be researched are likely to have the following four characteristics:
- Promising innovations in healthcare delivery which have a substantial potential benefit and could be applied more widely in the NHS.
- Being piloted, tested or implemented in a number of healthcare organisations.
- Involving the application of ideas or technologies introduced or transferred from other countries, sectors or settings.
- Have not already been well explored and tested through research.

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| In this issue
RfPB compeition 13 deadline
Stats Masterclass
i4i funding call
SDO funding call
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Research Design Service South Central
Southampton:
Southampton General Hospital, SO16 6YD
023 8079 477
Portsmouth
2 King Richard I Road
University of Portsmouth
Portsmouth, PO1 2FR
023 9284 4406
Oxford
Department of Public Health
Old Road Campus
Headington, OX3 7LF
01865 289442 |
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rds-sc@soton.ac.uk |
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www.rds-sc.nihr.ac.uk |
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