Feedback on the second round of applications for the Academy Ignition Fund
Following our second round of Ignition Fund awards we have provided general feedback for those who were unsuccessful.
Grants for academic or clinical research
Call for applications: DMT Academy Ignition Fund
The Dunhill Medical Trust’s latest member-only resource is our Ignition Fund. Academy Members are able to apply for up to £5K which can be used flexibly to support some training or professional development, or to support some impact and engagement …
Engaging people with every step of research
Professor Lindsay Bearne talks about how working with members of the public is key to successful research.
Making the extra years count – Inequalities in disability and dependency with increasing longevity
The International Longevity Centre (ILC) has today published a report, which draws on research led by Newcastle University and funded by The Dunhill Medical Trust, investigating the trends in longevity, disability, and dependence between 1991 and 2011. The research …
Helping care homes to cope with change
Organisational resilience is key to enabling care homes to adapt to the many changes they face, whilst still delivering good care to their residents. In this blog post, Dr Al Ross from the University of Glasgow explains what resilience ‘looks like’ in the context of care homes and what factors contribute to it.
Concordat action plan published
The Trust has published a new action plan, detailing how it intends to meet its commitments as a signatory of the Concordat to Support the Career Development of Researchers.
Making sure that digital innovations in care work for older people
Last month, we published a post about the work being led by Dr Gemma Burgess at the University of Cambridge. Here, Gemma, and colleague Dr Phoebe Stirling talk about their findings, and, in particular, how we define success in providing advanced telecare to older people and how this affects views of outcomes.
From standstill to ‘splatter’ – helping out during the pandemic
Nadia Rostami is a Research Associate at Newcastle University and works on the DMT-funded project A Prebiotic Approach to Control Periodontitis, led by Dr Nick Jakubovics. Here, Nadia shares some of the vital work she has been doing to inform the re-opening of student dental clinics post-lockdown.