Do you need funding for safety research?
Applications are currently being invited for the third round of funding under the RoSPA/BNFL accident-prevention scholarship.
The scheme provides support for safety-related research that will produce defined, practical and influential outcomes to help save lives and prevent injuries in the UK and around the world. Grants of up to £20,000 per project per year are available.
Candidate projects can address any of the following themes:
- work safety: to raise standards of health and safety management (particularly in relation to small firms, accident investigation, director and team leadership, workforce involvement, or costing accidents)
- safety education: to enhance risk understanding and awareness (particularly risk awareness in preparation for work)
- road safety: to improve standards of driving behaviour (particularly young drivers, older drivers, speeding, fatigue-related accidents, or motorcycle safety)
- water and leisure safety: to reduce injuries in water and leisure activities (particularly safety in outdoor education)
- home safety: to reduce home accidents (particularly data collection/analysis, poverty and deprivation, or child safety)
- general safety: to increase public awareness of safety and accident prevention (particularly safety and risk literacy among key decision makers and communicators) or to identify and tackle wider social determinants of injury such as deprivation.
Applications for projects that evaluate existing or planned safety schemes are also welcome. Previously-funded projects have considered: the scale and impact of child injuries in Nepal; the threat posed by cold-water immersion; the effectiveness of a learner-driver coaching programme; the impact of child safety interventions; and perception of approaching vehicles by older motorists.
Tom Mullarkey, RoSPA chief executive, said: “Accidents remain a huge problem, not just in the UK but around the world, wrecking lives and wasting billions of pounds. Our objective in administering the scholarship scheme is to encourage and support groundbreaking research that will produce results capable of translation into action that will save lives and reduce injuries.”
The closing date for applications for the 2011 round of funding is 1 April. To find out more, contact Roger Bibbings at RoSPA on 0121 248 2095, or e-mail [email protected] Alternatively, visit the RoSPA site here.
Do you need funding for safety research?
Applications are currently being invited for the third round of funding under the RoSPA/BNFL accident-prevention scholarship.
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