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IPCRG Research Grants Policy

The International Primary Care Respiratory Group research sub-committee is led by Professor David Price and aims to enable international collaboration in primary care respiratory research by raising the profile and ensuring pragmatic and 'real life' research is conducted across the world.

Our priorities are to conduct research of real practical value to primary care practitioners, policy makers and patients in both developed and developing countries. We expect our research to be conducted by researchers and practitioners with significant experience of primary care and other community settings. We anticipate that our wide international network, and the enthusiasm of our members for such an initiative, will enable studies to be undertaken rapidly, cost effectively and with a high level of applicability. The scope includes prevention, diagnosis and management across the common respiratory conditions managed in primary care: asthma, allergic rhinitis, COPD, and infectious disease; and the most important cross-cutting intervention: smoking cessation.

The IPCRG has been consulting experts in primary care, respiratory research, our members and associate members to develop a comprehensive research strategy that we believe is required in primary care respiratory medicine. To be selected, issues have to be of global importance and not just nationally relevant. This provides a framework for the development of our own research programme and should provide guidance to potential researchers and research funders planning to study priority research areas in primary care respiratory medicine.

The research committee brings together a group of International Primary Care Respiratory Group members who are practising GPs and are dedicated to reviewing and conducting primary care respiratory initiatives. The considerable expertise of the group allows the cross-pollination of ideas and practical help in devising, executing and analysing projects.

We are committed to improving standards in primary care respiratory medicine and as such actively encourage members who are interested in conducting research in this field. To this end we invite members to apply for research grants.

Successful research grants awarded by the International Primary Care Respiratory Group are based upon the relevance of the application to primary care respiratory medicine and specifically how it will help to meet the aims of the IPCRG, as well as the originality, quality, feasibility and educational value of the research. In addition the IPCRG insists that any successful research undertaken is disseminated according to a detailed plan.

Each application will be submitted for independent review and feedback given to each applicant. Successful projects will be registered with our Research Registrar and dissemination of findings monitored according to the original dissemination plan.

Should you be interested in conducting primary care respiratory research in your local area please click here for an online form.

If you require further assistance, please contact Sam Louw on 01224 552427 or sam.knowles@abdn.ac.uk

Approval Process

Step One - Process of application
  • All applicants are required to be members of the IPCRG, please see www.theipcrg.org for details
  • Each application should concur with the template attached and be no longer than 2000 words long.
  • All applications should be submitted to the research sub-committee an online form: click here.
  • Each application will be proof read by one of the research sub-committee members (with no recognised conflicts of interest i.e. personal involvement in the study design, development or proposed implementation) before being sent for independent review
  • If there are issues raised at this stage (e.g. layout, readability etc) the application will be returned to the author with the necessary comments for improvement. The author will be invited to re-submit the application once changes have been made.
  • Applicants will be informed within 6 months if their application has been approved.
  • Please note that the IPCRG does not pay overheads on costings for grant applications.
Step Two - Independent Review
  • Each application submitted will be sent for independent review to a minimum of two clinicians (excluding current committee members)
  • The clinicians will be selected by Prof David Price (or a member of the research sub-committee should there be conflicts of interest as outlined above).
  • Each reviewer will be asked to submit their comments to the research sub-committee within a 4 week period.
  • The reviewers will be responsible for giving each application a grade, recommending to the research sub-committee whether the application is
    1. Not recommended for funding
    2. Only appropriate for funding if changes were to be made
    3. Appropriate for funding
    4. Recommended for funding
    5. Highly recommended for funding
    6. Top priority for funding

Step Three - Recommendations
  1. If additional work is required the author will be informed (and given a copy of all comments) and invited to amend their application and re-submit, applicants will be informed within 6 months if their re-submitted application has been approved.
  2. If the application is recommended for rejection the author will be informed by Prof David Price (or a member of the research sub-committee should there be conflicts of interest) and the reasons given for rejection documented.
  3. If it has been agreed that an application is of adequate scientific merit, then, upon agreement from the research sub-committee, funding will be sought.

Step Four - Issuing Grants
  • External Funding will be sought to cover the costs of all grant applications.

Step Five - Re-submitting Applications
  • Applications returned to authors at Step One will, upon re-submission, be processed from Step Two onwards
  • Applications returned to authors at Step Three (i.e. additional work is required) will, upon re-submission, be presented to the research sub-committee for final review. Original comments from the independent reviewers will be taken into consideration before a final decision to award a grant is made.
  • Grants will be awarded as documented in Step Four.
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