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Professor Cath Sackley's career story and top 10 tips for funding
1. Grant winning-
Why am I qualified to talk about it?
Tips what to do and what not to do
Prof Cath Sackley,
King’s College, London
2. Early years
79-82 Qualified Sheffield City Polytechnic
82-85 Worked Lewisham, Q Mary Sidcup
95-96 Remedial research fellowship DHSS-
Soton Rehab MSC
87-91 Nottingham PhD
4. Personal awards
Senior 1 Community physio- start up garnt
of 3k (equivalent to RCF or FSF nowdays)
NHS EXEC HSR post doc training award –
pt time
National Primary Care Researcher
development award- Oxford Uni
5 Year Career Scientist – Oxford
5. Grants - ~100
Project and programme grants
Personal Awards-for me and others
Equipment grants
Infrastructure grants, Clahrc, Doctoral
Training, NIHR schools, global health.
~50 million
6. Grant Boards/ reviewing
UK
Charities- Professional Bodies- MRC-
EPSRC- BBSRC- NIHR +++- DH-
EU
Other countries- Australia- Canada-
Netherlands- Romania
~ 50 a year for 30 years= 3,000 approx.
7. !0 things to do
1. Is it the right competition? Are you in scope? Know
the process and the remit.
2. Is there enough money to do what you want- why do
you want it?
3. Is it an important question to- patients/NHS/funders?
4. Start as part of a team- be realistic about your place in
pecking order-
5. Composition of team MUST have methodologists
6. Do homework, look up previous award holders, panel
members, etc
8. 7. Think about management/independent oversight/ budget
8. Plain English summary- what does success look like to
non specialist.
9. Peer review prior to submission ++ Dictation notes
remaining in the text of the research proposal e.g.
“Beverley, we need to have a chat about the sample size, I
don’t understand how you got these numbers”
10- Keep trying- but LISTEN to feedback
9. !0 things NOT to do
1. Out of scope-recycled
2. Over ambitious- nobel prize for 12 months and 35k –
recruit 1,00 in a year- average is one per site per month.
3. Background+++, not enough methods- don’t cut and
paste your thesis
4. Not enough on doability- recruitment evidence-
management- data management
5. Fake partnerships
6. Late on the ‘latest idea’ black boxes –tool kits- CBT-
Vit d- exs
10. 7. Poor/angry response to feedback- if HTA ask
you to change it- change it
8. No methodologists – just all clinical specialists-
9 Badly costed -Greedy funding –
10. So what?
13. Barriers to clinical research training
• Difficulty with career structure and appointments
• Timing of training within career
• Challenges at interface between training schools/university
depts/trusts
• University agenda dominated by educational research, not
patient centred.
• Protection of research time for clinicians
• Shortage of appropriate posts on completion of training.
• Inconsistent quality of research and clinical supervision
National Coordinating Centre for Research Capacity Development www.nccrcd.nhs.uk
Notas del editor
By end of Time in Tower House I had a doctorate, a baby, no husband and no career. I went to work for CSP – ended in tears – back to the tools