The Stroke Foundation’s Research
Program funds annual research grants to promote stroke research capacity and
generate new stroke knowledge.
The 2021 Grant Round will fulfil three
distinct purposes of the Stroke Foundation’s Research Grants program:
- Continue building capacity in the research community through Early Career Researcher Seed Grants, with a focus on feasibility and implementation studies.
- Providing
a targeted call for young adult research through the second grant offered
by the Tim Glendinning Memorial Fund for Young Adult Stroke. This grant is
available to researchers of any career stage.
- Providing
a 2-year grant to further primary and/or secondary stroke prevention and
target specifically on the areas of stroke education, research and public
awareness, including consideration of evidencebased integrative health
care. This grant is available to researchers of any career stage and stems
from the Nancy and Vic Allen Stroke Prevention Memorial Fund.
Across
all the grants offered Stroke Foundation welcomes applications focusing on
telehealth models of care.
- Early
Career Researcher Seed Grants: Four (4) Early Career Researcher Seed
Grants are offered, up to $50,000 in total per grant, addressing (at
least) one of the following 2021 Research Priority Areas.
- Feasibility
or efficacy studies of long term community support (e.g. continuity of
care, health services, and primary care) with outcome measures beyond 6
months.
- Feasibility
or efficacy studies of interventions for long term psychosocial recovery
(i.e. recovery of cognition, communication, and emotional and social
wellbeing) with outcome measures beyond 6 months.
- Implementation
studies of health services and pathways of stroke management that have
already been shown to have efficacy (i.e. studies on how to translate
these processes into acute and subacute practice).
- Implementation
studies to improve the support of Carers.
- Tim
Glendinning Memorial Research Grant for Young Adult Stroke: One (1) Grant
of up to $75,000 in total over 1.5 years available to researchers of any
career stage to address research in Australia that:
- "Identifies
enablers and barriers to engagement with young adult stroke survivors and
tests novel strategies to engage with young adult stroke survivors to
achieve optimal outcomes (e.g. Peer support, continuity of care).
- Proposals
must demonstrate collaborative partnership with consumers, be
transformative and solutions-based with national reach."
- Prevention
Grant - Nancy and Vic Allen Stroke Prevention Memorial Fund: One (1) Grant
of up to $100,000 in total over two (2) years available to researchers of
any career stage to address research in Australia that:
- "Furthers
primary and/or secondary stroke prevention and targets specifically on
the areas of stroke education, research and public awareness, including
consideration of evidence-based integrative health care (e.g. meditation,
yoga)."
Eligibility
Criteria
- One
submission per Principal Investigator per grant category will be accepted
(i.e. a Principal Investigator may apply for the Memorial Research Grants
and also the Early Career Researcher Seed Grant). A Principal Investigator
may be successful in each grant category in which they apply.
- The
research must be carried out in Australia.
- Applications
must directly address the research priority area(s) identified in the
grant offered.
- The
project timeline does not exceed the grant period. The grant period
incorporates ethics approval. Proposals building upon existing work such
as consumer involvement in study design, pending or existing ethics
approvals can apply where all other conditions are met. Pre-work relevant
to the proposal may be indicated in the project timeline, without altering
the effective start date of grant period.
- Applicants
are required to justify their proposal’s inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Proposals that provide considered inclusion methods, such as for people
with communication impairments and from marginalized and disadvantaged
populations relevant to the study, will be highly regarded.
- Grant
funds can be used for support personnel such as research assistants or
casual help, consumables and small items of equipment or other assistance
necessary to carry out a specific project. Salary on-costs can be included
in the project budget. The project budget must be justified and meet the
grant criteria for funding.
Post Date
- 09-Jul-2020