Consultative Advice

The NIHR-RDS will work with clients to strengthen research design so that innovative research ideas become strong research proposals which will attract research funding. This advice and support includes:

• Developing research protocols:
   
  • Turning ideas into projects
  • Literature searching
  • Study design and management
  • Questionnaire design
  • Statistics
  • Outcome measures.
• Information of potential sources of funding;
• Preparing grant applications and costing research proposals;
• Preparation of submissions to research governance and ethics committees;
• Project management;