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Teresa M MorrisRegistrar
Bupa Foundation
Background
• The Bupa Foundation is an independent medical and health research charity that funds research to prevent, relieve and cure sickness and ill health
• The Foundation aims to fund high-quality research with the potential to improve the health of individuals across the UK and internationally
• £3 million annual donation from Bupa• Small legacies/individual donations• Independent Board chaired by Professor Parveen Kumar
Aims and objectives
The Foundation’s objectives are to offer grants to fund research into identifying and evaluating solutions with the potential to improve health
outcomes at a population-level as well as reducing health inequalities.
The funding will be for the following areas:
• achieving sustained behaviour changes in relation to smoking, diet, physical activity and alcohol consumption
• facilitating wellbeing and preventing mental ill health • improve patient decision-making through, for example,
shared decision-making interventions • improving the design of community health activities by
using new technologies to cost-effectively organise and interpret health outcome data
Programmes
• Medical research grants
• Philip Poole Wilson Seed Corn Fund
• Multi-country grants
• Annual prizes
Eligibility
Medical research grants
• UK-based research into one of our areas of funding.
• Not a pilot project.
• Not led by a young researcher.
• Funding of up to £100,000 per year for a maximum of three years.
Eligibility
Multi-country grant
• Research based in two or more of the following countries: United Kingdom, Spain, Australia, New Zealand, the United States or India.
• Not a pilot project.
• Not led by a young researcher.
• Funding of up to £600,000 for a maximum of three years.
Eligibility
Philip-Poole Wilson Seed Corn Fund
• UK-based research into one of our areas of funding.
• Either a young researcher or a pilot project.
• Maximum of £20,000 for a maximum of 12 months.
Eligibility
Not eligible• Research outside of the UK that doesn’t fit into a
multi-country grant. • Funding for a seminar or conference. • Funding for a systematic review. • Course fees, medical elective funding or
payment of academic fees for a higher degree.• Students.• Product development. • Pre-clinical research.
Grant Tracker
• Online forms - both short and full forms
• List of rounds open for applications
• Allows you to save your application and go back in at any stage before the deadline
Stage 1 – short form
• eligibility• project title • duration of project • estimated amount requested • brief rationale • objectives • design and methodology to be employed• relevance to Foundation objectives and potential for public health benefit • sustained impact beyond funding period • project outcomes and deliverables • details of any partners involved
Complete a short form application of just 500 words including information about:
This is then reviewed by a sub-scrutiny panel
Stage 2 – full application
• The full application needs to include detailed costs
• All applications are sent for external peer review• Applications are reviewed internally by the Board• The Foundation uses the MRC scoring system• Shortlisted applications scoring 8/10 and above
are reviewed at the Board meeting
How to apply
• Check eligibility and information on programmes via the website – www.bupafoundation.co.uk
• Register on the Grant Tracker website• Check content and costs with fellow applicants,
head of department, finance officer and/or your research manager
• Check your form carefully before validating it • Submit your form online• Post one copy of the PDF with original
signatures
Common reasons for not being shortlisted
• Not reading the guidance on the website
• Ineligible applications (too long, overpriced)
• Not meeting the Bupa Foundation objectives
• Inadequate information on methodology
• Overinflated costs to cover various external consultant fees, development costs, hidden overheads
• Application is for PhD, salary for a member of staff, piece of equipment or development
Annual prizes
• For completed research
• Must meet the eligibility criteria for application
• Can be from any funder, not just the Bupa Foundation
• Each prize is £15,000
• Given out at a black tie VIP prize giving dinner
2011 Prizes – Healthy Lives
Seminar
Future focused health11 October 2012
1.30pm to 5.15pm
The aim of the seminar is to promote the Bupa Foundation funding available for research towards a
healthier society. We have invited leaders in this work to expand on current ideas through masterclass talks. We
aim to inspire researchers to design the excellent projects needed to make a real difference to public
health in future and to talk to us about funding them.
Speakers for this event include: • Dr David Pencheon, Director of the NHS Sustainable Development
Unit (Keynote speaker) • Dr David Ogilvie, UKCRC Centre for Diet and Activity Research
(CEDAR), MRC Epidemiology Unit, Cambridge • Dr Simon Griffin, Assistant Unit Director, MRC Epidemiology Unit,
Cambridge • Professor Graham MacGregor, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
at the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine and Honorary Consultant Physician at St George's Hospital, London.
• Professor Ann McNeill, Professor in Health Policy and Promotion, Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nottingham
To register, visit the website - www.bupafoundation.co.uk/seminar
Who to contact
Kate Brown
Grants Officer
Telephone: 020 7656 2591
Teresa Morris
Registrar
Telephone: 020 7656 2536
Louise Maclachlan
Assistant Registrar
Telephone: 020 7656 2509
Iona Chessells
Prizes’ administrator
Telephone: 020 7656 2246
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