A new National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Research Support Service will launch in October across four Universities, with the QMUL team based at the Wolfson Institute of Population Health. QMUL will collaborate with colleagues at Imperial, UCL, and King’s, to establish new pre- and post- application support for researchers. The RSS, which replaces the previous NIHR Research Design Service, has been awarded funding of £8.7million for five years, £1.7million of which will come to QMUL.
Richard Hooper, PI on the QM section of the Service, will also chair the RSS Methodology and Training Committee across all four Colleges, and from October will co-lead at QM together with Liz Steed and Jill Russell.
Success in this bid helps to confirm the key role of WIPH in enabling and delivering high impact research in health and social care.