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- Title
Building research capital to facilitate research.
- Authors
Green, Gill; Rein, Melanie
- Abstract
The National Institute for Health Research, Research Design Service (NIHR RDS) was set up to increase the number and proportion of high quality applications for funding for applied and patient focused health and social care research. Access to specialist expertise and collaboration between researchers and health practitioners at the proposal development stage is crucial for high quality applied health research. In this essay we develop the concept of 'research capital' to describe the wide range of resources and expertise required to develop fundable research projects. It highlights the key role the RDS plays supporting researchers to broker relationships to access the requisite 'research capital'.
- Subjects
NATIONAL Institute for Health Research (Great Britain); EXPERIMENTAL design; MEDICAL research; MEDICAL personnel; MEDICAL care research
- Publication
Health Research Policy & Systems, 2013, Vol 11, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1478-4505
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/1478-4505-11-12