Research Award 2024 - Now closed to applications
Prize: £1500
ICHG is pleased to announce the 2024 round of its annual research award. The aim of this fund is to support its members to undertake:
a) Projects on ANY topic related to improving child health & wellbeing, with a global health outlook.
b) Projects which are research or quality improvement focused. There are no restrictions on methodology e.g., both laboratory-based or qualitative work is acceptable.
c) Projects which encourage collaboration, capacity-building, training and/or equitable partnerships
d) Projects which are achievable in a 12-month period.
Applications will be marked on project importance, feasibility, evidence of meaningful partnership and collaboration, and potential impact.
Eligibility
The 'Lead Applicant(s)' must be a member of the International Child Health Group (ICHG) (http://www.internationalchildhealthgroup.org). If you are not currently a member of the organisation you can sign up here: http://www.internationalchildhealthgroup.org/join-ichg. Membership is free to students and to residents of low-or-middle-income countries (LMICs).
Applicants can be from any profession or seniority; however, this award is particularly aimed at students, early career professionals or those who have not received funding in their own name previously. We particularly welcome applications from nationals or residents of LMICs and accept joint submissions from lead applicants from both high and LMICs which demonstrate genuine partnership and collaboration.
The grant holder is required to:
1. Aim to complete the project within 12-months of the funds being received.
2. Submit a 1500-word report to the ICHG on completion of the project (a template will be sent closer to the time).
3. Aim to present the findings, in person or via video link, at the RCPCH UK Annual Conference 2025 and/or one of the ICHG annual meetings (usually the Winter Meeting in December 2024).
4. While publishing the work is not an absolute requirement, successful applicants will be strongly encouraged to do so, in an open access format if possible; they can be supported through this process by the ICHG research leads, if required.
Applications
Please submit an application which completes the sections below (bullet point answers are acceptable):
1. Title and name of lead applicant(s) and the research institution they are based at.
2. Telephone and email contact details.
3. Curriculum vitae of lead applicant(s), max 2 pages, to include Academic & Employment (if applicable) history, any previous research funding and/or academic prizes, any previous abstracts at national/international conferences, any publications, details of 2 Referees (including email address)
4. Title of Research project
5. Proposed Start Date and End Date
6. Proposed project location
7. Please list all supervisors and any collaborators, including contact details and affiliated organisations
8. Explain why this proposed research project is important (max 300 words)
9. Outline the general aim/title of the project and the specific objectives (max 250 words)
10. Outline and explain the research methods, including what the research outcomes are and how they will be measured/evaluated (max 350 words)
11. How will this award contribute to capacity or training in the proposed location? (max 200 words)
12. Does this project require ethical approval and are there any anticipated ethical issues that will be encountered? Please give details of how/from whom ethical approval will be or already has been sought. If not required, please state why this is the case (max 200 words).
13. Please provide a breakdown of projects costs and a short justification for the resources (max. 300 words). The award can be put towards salary(ies), travel or living allowances and/or consumables.
14. Have you applied for or are you in receipt of any existing sources of funding for this project? If yes, please give details (max 150 words).
15. Please provide a short official Letter of Support for your application and project (1-page, pdf), including a confirmation that these costs are required, either from your institutional research support office, senior supervisor, or line manager.
16. Please declare any conflicts of interest.
Please submit your application (as a doc, docx or pdf), or any queries, to ichgawards@gmail.com. Incomplete applications will not be accepted.
Timeline
Date Submission open: 29th January 2024 (9am GMT)
Submission Deadline: 18th March 2024 (9am GMT)
Awards to be announced: Week commencing 1st April 2024
Further Information
Please submit applications or any questions to ichgawards@gmail.com
Previous Winners
WINNERS 2023
Myness Ndambo: "Challenges faced by professional child health workers in Malawi in conducting
research on Post-discharge Malaria Chemoprevention (PDMC) to reduce child
mortality and morbidity among children with severe malaria – A PDMC sub study"
Exhibit Matumbu and Shamiso Fernando: "Unpacking the realities experienced in child health research in Rural and Urban
Zimbabwe"
Winner 2021
Thomas Hampton, Peter Shija, Thadei Liganga, ‘Paediatric Airway Course Outcomes in Moshi (PACOM)’.
WINNER 2020
Susanna Corona 'Shaping Transit: perceptions of migration transit, identity (trans)formation and the impact on mental health of unaccompanied migrant minors in Mexico'
WINNER 2019
Rachel Macleod ‘Two Year Follow up of a Prospective Observational Study of Intraventricular Haemorrhage in a Neonatal Cohort in Uganda’
WINNER 2017
Laura Busert, Child Refugees, Migration and Health