PIHR Researcher support services

Useful links to help you discover potential funding opportunities.

Support and guidance to help you through the application process.

PIHR has been working with other parts of the University to offer specific small-scale funding for seed-corn projects to University of Plymouth academics. These initiatives include:

• Health Pump Priming Fund: this provides seed-corn funding for small research projects with the aim that they will subsequently be scaled-up and attract additional external funding. The 2020/21 fund supported 17 such projects and a further 8 projects are currently being funded in the 2022/3 round. The fund has also been supported by the Faculty of Health.

• Arts-Health Collaboration Fund: jointly funded with the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business, this fund supports collaborative research between academics from health backgrounds and those from the arts, humanities and business. Further details can be found here.

• QR Policy Support Fund: funding from Research England has been used to support a number of projects to help academics better engage with policy-makers. Details of the projects funded in the 2021 can be found here.

In addition, PIHR members have also collaborated with local businesses to receive support from the University's Research and Development Solutions Fund. This fund was established by the University to support businesses through the pandemic providing grants of up to £20,000. Details of the previous round can be found here.

If you have any questions about future internal research funding opportunities please contact PIHRSupport@plymouth.ac.uk

Links and downloadable guides to guide you towards effective research and data management.

All research by staff, research students and taught masters students which involves human subjects and/or human tissue will always require ethical approval by a properly constituted ethics committee.

It‘s considered good practice to involve members of the public as early as possible in the research design process. Funding public involvement at the grant application stage can be challenging. The NIHR Research Design Services' ‘Public Involvement Funds’ aim to bridge that gap. Funds are available to help facilitate public involvement in the development of research ideas and research grant applications. You can contact the RDS directly to find out more about the funding here. 

Below are links to various external resources which could help you with public and patient involvement, either as part of the planning and/or dissemination of research. This includes a repository of PPI training and resources developed by NIHR, as well as guidance from MRC about how to feedback findings to study participants. 

Help, advice and support in undertaking a systematic review, including resources on meta-analysis. Please note the meta-analysis resources require a UoP login. 

Your guide to the essential considerations when preparing journal publications and handling editorial feedback.

Ensuring our research findings make a positive impact on people and communities, not least through influencing policy-makers, can be as challenging as it is critical. In early 2021 PIHR funded the ECR Forum for Health-related researchers to organise a series of workshops for both early career and other researchers on engaging policy-makers. Below are links to some of the workshop resources together with other useful impact-related links. These additional links include a policy engagement toolkit developed by our colleagues in the University's Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business. Please note: you will need a UoP login to access some of this content. 

The Plymouth Institute of Health and Care Research (PIHR) runs a mentoring programme to support junior researchers in the University of Plymouth's Faculty of Health in the development of their research careers. The benefits for mentees include enhanced confidence, career direction, an expanded network, and a supportive environment to discuss ideas. If you are a junior health researcher within the University's Faculty of Health and would like to find out more please email: fohstaffmentoring@plymouth.ac.uk

PIHR has also set-up some guidance and training resources for mentors and mentees. University of Plymouth staff members can access these using the links below.