Deadline: 04-Sep-20
The Stroke Foundation’s Research Program funds annual research grants to promote stroke research capacity and generate new stroke knowledge.
The 2021 Grant Round will fulfil three distinct purposes of the Stroke Foundation’s Research Grants program:
- Continue building capacity in the research community through Early Career Researcher Seed Grants, with a focus on feasibility and implementation studies.
- Providing a targeted call for young adult research through the second grant offered by the Tim Glendinning Memorial Fund for Young Adult Stroke. This grant is available to researchers of any career stage.
- Providing a 2-year grant to further primary and/or secondary stroke prevention and target specifically on the areas of stroke education, research and public awareness, including consideration of evidencebased integrative health care. This grant is available to researchers of any career stage and stems from the Nancy and Vic Allen Stroke Prevention Memorial Fund.
Across all the grants offered Stroke Foundation welcomes applications focusing on telehealth models of care.
- Early Career Researcher Seed Grants: Four (4) Early Career Researcher Seed Grants are offered, up to $50,000 in total per grant, addressing (at least) one of the following 2021 Research Priority Areas.
- Feasibility or efficacy studies of long term community support (e.g. continuity of care, health services, and primary care) with outcome measures beyond 6 months.
- Feasibility or efficacy studies of interventions for long term psychosocial recovery (i.e. recovery of cognition, communication, and emotional and social wellbeing) with outcome measures beyond 6 months.
- Implementation studies of health services and pathways of stroke management that have already been shown to have efficacy (i.e. studies on how to translate these processes into acute and subacute practice).
- Implementation studies to improve the support of Carers.
- Tim Glendinning Memorial Research Grant for Young Adult Stroke: One (1) Grant of up to $75,000 in total over 1.5 years available to researchers of any career stage to address research in Australia that:
- “Identifies enablers and barriers to engagement with young adult stroke survivors and tests novel strategies to engage with young adult stroke survivors to achieve optimal outcomes (e.g. Peer support, continuity of care).
- Proposals must demonstrate collaborative partnership with consumers, be transformative and solutions-based with national reach.”
- Prevention Grant – Nancy and Vic Allen Stroke Prevention Memorial Fund: One (1) Grant of up to $100,000 in total over two (2) years available to researchers of any career stage to address research in Australia that:
- “Furthers primary and/or secondary stroke prevention and targets specifically on the areas of stroke education, research and public awareness, including consideration of evidence-based integrative health care (e.g. meditation, yoga).”
Eligibility Criteria
- One submission per Principal Investigator per grant category will be accepted (i.e. a Principal Investigator may apply for the Memorial Research Grants and also the Early Career Researcher Seed Grant). A Principal Investigator may be successful in each grant category in which they apply.
- The research must be carried out in Australia.
- Applications must directly address the research priority area(s) identified in the grant offered.
- The project timeline does not exceed the grant period. The grant period incorporates ethics approval. Proposals building upon existing work such as consumer involvement in study design, pending or existing ethics approvals can apply where all other conditions are met. Pre-work relevant to the proposal may be indicated in the project timeline, without altering the effective start date of grant period.
- Applicants are required to justify their proposal’s inclusion and exclusion criteria. Proposals that provide considered inclusion methods, such as for people with communication impairments and from marginalised and disadvantaged populations relevant to the study, will be highly regarded.
- Grant funds can be used for support personnel such as research assistants or casual help, consumables and small items of equipment or other assistance necessary to carry out a specific project. Salary on-costs can be included in the project budget. The project budget must be justified and meet the grant criteria for funding.
For more information, visit https://strokefoundation.org.au/What-we-do/Research/Research-grants