Date and time: Wednesday 24th and Thursday 25th January 2024
Place: Queens Hotel, New Station Street, City Square, Leeds, LS1 1PJ
Attendees
Funding Committee One members:
- Professor Umesh Kadam, Chair, University of Leicester
- Professor Tim Croudace, Deputy Chair, The University of Dundee
- Professor Matt Sutton, Deputy Chair, University of Manchester
- Professor David Jayne, University of Leeds
- Professor John Cairns, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Professor Cathy Creswell, University of Oxford (Day 2)
- Professor Sheila Greenfield, University of Birmingham
- Professor Jill Manthorpe, King’s College London (Day 2)
- Professor Rupert Pearse, Queen Mary University of London
- Professor Steven Julious, University of Sheffield
- Professor Karina Lovell, University of Manchester
- Professor Monica Busse, Cardiff University
- Professor Amanda Daley, Loughborough University
- Cheryl Gower, Patient and Public Involvement Representative
- Gill Clare, Patient and Public Involvement Representative
Observers
- Hayley Mableson, NIHR Senior Programme Manager (Day 1)
- Lucy Scarisbrick, NIHR Programme Manager (Day 1)
- Amanda Rudczenko, PPI representative (Day 2)
- Faheem Makda, NIHR Senior Programme Manager (Day 2)
NIHR Academy Staff
- Dr Beth Harris, Assistant Director
- Rosie Padley, Senior Programme Manager
- Ryan Wolstenholme, Programme Manager
- Harriet Cox, Senior Programme Officer
- Emily Town, Senior Programme Officer
Funding Committee Two members:
- Professor Eileen Kaner, Chair, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
- Professor Calum Semple, Deputy Chair , University of Liverpool,
- Professor Diana Baralle, Deputy Chair, University of Southampton (Day 2)
- Professor Richard Hooper, Queen Mary University of London
- Professor Karl Atkin, University of York
- Professor Alan Brennan, The University of Sheffield
- Professor Dion Morton, University of Birmingham
- Professor Gill Livingston, University College London
- Professor Max Parmar, University College London (Day 1)
- Professor Rob Poole, University of Bangor
- Professor George Gkoutos, University of Birmingham
- Professor Udai Banerji, Royal Marsden NHS Trust
- Colin Wilkinson, Patient and Public Involvement Representative
- Gina Dutton, Patient and Public Involvement Representative
Observers
- Professor Mona Kanaan, Univeristy of York, Selection Committee Member
- Hollie Leonard, Senior Programme Manager
- Hayley Mableson, Senior Programme Manager
- Lucy Scarisbrick, Programme Manager
- Professor Waljit Dhillo, NIHR Academy Dean
NIHR Academy Staff
- Dr James Fenton, Assistant Director
- Tom Pratt, Senior Programme Manager
- Dr Lauren Eades, Senior Programme Manager
- Sara Qutub, Programme Manager
- Amanda Brett, Senior Programme Officer
Discussion of Applications
61 applications were received for Round 10 of the NIHR Advanced Fellowship and 58 of these proved eligible for assessment by the NIHR selection committee.
Shortlisting took place on 28 th September 2023. The funding committee shortlisted 31 for external peer review and all 31 applications were shortlisted for interview.
31 applicants were interviewed over 2 days on 24 th and 25 th January 2024.
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Action/Activity |
Date |
Total Applications |
| Application window opened | 04 April 2023 | 61 |
| Application window closed | 06 July 2023 | |
| Funding Committee Assessments | 03 July - 20 September 2023 | 58 |
| Shortlisting Meeting | 28 September 2023 | 31 |
| External Peer Review | 01 October - 24 November 2023 | |
| Shortlisting Meeting | 30 November 2023 | |
| Interviews | 24 and 25 January 2024 | 31 |
| Recommended for Funding | 19 February 2024 | 18 |
7 applications were recommended for funding on a conditional basis.
Advanced Fellowship Round 10 Interview and Discussion of Applications
Funding Committee One Recommendations
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Reference |
Research Title |
Outcome |
| NIHR303663 | Rape and Sexual Assault: developing a trauma-informed framework to providing health and social care support to survivors. | Fund |
| NIHR303622 | Exploring estimates of effectiveness of surgical and non-surgical interventions in pragmatic orthopaedic trials | Fund |
| NIHR303544 | Turn-PD: A Co-designed Rehabilitation Programme To Improve Turning And Reduce Falls In Parkinson’s Disease | Fund |
| NIHR303609 | OPTIMISing personal care assistance for people with advancED DEMentia to reduce refusals of CARE in care homes (OPTIMISED-DEMCARE): intervention co-development and feasibility testing | Fund |
| NIHR303621 | Adverse Drug Events in Ageing Populations (ADDRESS-AP): Who, why and which drugs to stop? | Fund |
| NIHR303606 | Missed Opportunities for improving outcomes in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in underserved populations. | Fund |
| NIHR303628 | Rethinking hEalth policy in MultimorbidITy (REMIT): a population-based approach | Fund |
| NIHR303662 | Improving prevention and management of stroke at younger ages | Fund |
| NIHR303615 | Understanding and Preventing Cardiovascular diseases in people taking AntiPsychotic medications: a data-driven mixed methods study (PreCAP) | Fund |
| NIHR303617 | A national platform trial to improve outcomes after surgery - the PROTECT project. | Decline |
| NIHR303643 | Development and evaluation of an evidence-driven vaccination promotion intervention for people with immune-mediated inflammatory diseases | Decline |
| NIHR303608 | ImProving Outcomes after Postpartum PsYchosis (POPPY): A mixed-methods study to develop and test the feasibility and acceptability of a psychological intervention to improve recovery following Postpartum Psychosis | Decline |
| NIHR303629 | Utilising high-dimensional information in clinical trials to improve patient outcomes | Decline |
| NIHR303645 | A multi methods study to improve our understanding and decision making when switching high cost drugs for Psoriatic Arthritis: Switch PsA | Decline |
| NIHR303633 | Characterising health inequalities in clusters of multiple long-term conditions and their associated health conditions to support policy interventions. | Decline |
Funding Committee 2 Recommendations
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Reference |
Research Title |
Outcome |
| NIHR303605 | Understanding and addressing variation in Emergency Department attendances and inpatient admissions from care homes: a mixed methods study. | Fund |
| NIHR303644 | Measuring the impact of enhancing care provision in cervical screening for women in Wales, England and Australia who have experienced sexual violence and abuse. | Fund |
| NIHR303620 | Beyond remission: novel strategies to optimise shared decisions on drug tapering in rheumatoid arthritis | Fund |
| NIHR303647 | Improving mental health peer support for children and young people: A mixed methods realist modelling study | Fund |
| NIHR303648 | VORTIS – remote VOlunteering via smaRTphone to support people with psychosIS | Fund |
| NIHR303636 | Addressing critical gaps in childhood-onset hyperkinetic movement disorders: Towards evidence-based interventions and personalised rehabilitation. | Fund |
| NIHR303661 | Operationalising anti-racism policy and practice to reduce ethnic inequalities in end-of-life care: a participatory approach | Fund |
| NIHR303600 | Understanding the policies that led to food reformulation to reduce sugar in the top contributors to sugar intake in children in the UK. | Fund |
| NIHR303671 | Improving the care of people with diabetes-related ketoacidosis (DKA): The DEKODE (Digital Evaluation of Ketosis and Other Diabetes Emergencies) study | Fund |
| NIHR303658 | Improving the management of children's respiratory infections in primary care in the post-COVID era | Decline |
| NIHR303641 | Mind The Gap: Improving Mental Health Services For Young Adults With Common Mental Health Problems | Decline |
| NIHR303638 | OPTIMISing sport for mental health in underrepresented young peoplE (OPTIMISE) | Decline |
| NIHR303601 | A feasibility and safety study of Tocilizumab in acute traumatic brain injury | Decline |
| NIHR303670 | PRECLUDE study-PReventing Endometrial Cancer using a Levonorgestrel-releasing intra-Uterine system, Diet and Exercise | Decline |
| NIHR303640 | Overcoming methodological barriers to digital endpoints in clinical trials | Decline |
| NIHR303611 | Medical intervention in pregnancy: strengthening the evidence-base for clinical practice and INFORMed decision-making using routinely-collected UK health and education data (INFORM) | Decline |