NIHR South West Research Design Service (RDS)
A bespoke service to help you design studies and successfully apply for grants
The RDS South West, which is hosted by University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust (UH Bristol), supports researchers to develop applications to the NIHR and other applied health and social care research funders.
Whether you're at the beginning of your research design journey or you're one click away from submitting your funding application, the RDS is here to support you, free of charge.
The RDS can help you:
- develop a research questions and start your public involvement consultation;
- consider the funding programme, build the team and alert organisations;
- decide on study design, develop methods;
- write the research proposal;
- submit the research application and
- provide post-award support.
RDS advisers can even get involved as full collaborators on projects.
Who is it for?
Researchers and clinicians who are developing a research application to national funders of applied health and social care research, especially the NIHR
Geography
The RDS is based in universities and the NHS across the whole of the South West with its main centres in Bristol, Exeter, Plymouth and Bournemouth.
