North Mid announce new research award in memory of former consultant
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is thrilled to announce a new award that will encourage new important research to be carried out within the Trust.
The Jonathan Grieve Ainsworth Award is in honour of Jonathan Grieve Ainsworth, a well-loved and missed consultant in HIV who worked for the Trust for 24 years. He sadly passed away in 2019.
Named after Jonathan due to his passion for research, the JGA award will primarily encourage new research and will be funded by the Research Capability Fund from the Department Health and Social Care.
Applications will only be open to North Mid staff holding a full contract of employment. The grant – up to a maximum of £5,000 – will fund the generation of preliminary or underpinning data (qualitative or quantitative) to support a National Institute for Health Research application known as ‘pump priming’.
Support to develop grant applications can include such activities as undertaking literature searches, planning patient and public involvement and determining recruitment feasibility.
Equal weighting will be given to quality clinical research projects, laboratory-based projects and qualitative studies. Applicants maybe medically qualified or non-medically qualified professionals, but will need to play the principal role in the project.
Evaluation will be carried out on the same principles of all research, namely:
- Potential to lead into future work through external grants
- Originality of work based on a sound background
- Quality of study design/methods
- Proposed statistical analysis
- Feasibility within a timescale and within Trust facilities
- Relevance to Trust objectives
- An estimate (at this stage)of the sum needed.
Jeronimo Moreno Cuesta, research and development director, said: “It’s fantastic news that North Mid staff will get the opportunity to undertake new research that will solely be sponsored by the Trust.
“To be able to support our staff research with a bursary in Dr Ainsworth's name, who we all dearly miss, makes it even more special as he was passionate and driven by research.”