RoSPA / BNFL Scholarship Scheme
Scholarship to Save Lives and Reduce Injuries
BNFL has endowed RoSPA with a special fund to finance a scholarship scheme over the next ten years to enable students; 'to carry out research into safety and accident prevention that will produce defined, practical and influential outcomes to help save lives and prevent injuries.'
Applications are now being invited for the fourth round of funding available through the RoSPA/BNFL accident prevention scholarship.
About RoSPA / BNFL Scholarship Scheme
The scheme provides support for safety-related research that will produce defined, practical and influential outcomes to help save lives and prevent injuries in the UK and around the world. It was established with £500,000 of legacy funding following the winding up of BNFL (British Nuclear Fuels).
The RoSPA / BNFL scholarship is a unique accident prevention scheme. Up to three projects are awarded grants annually
The Scheme is being guided by an Oversight Group comprised of:
Tom Mullarkey MBE and Roger Bibbings MBE (nominated by RoSPA)
Rear Admiral Paul Thomas CB and Dr Richard Taylor (nominated by BNFL)
Research Areas
Applications for funding this year are invited for projects in the following areas:
Work safety
- A comprehensive review of strategy in relation to the management of occupational road risk as a basis for making recommendations for action to help sustain progress made and drive the MORR agenda forward.
Road safety
- Research to establish why such unusually large drops in road deaths occurred in 2007 to 2010 and what lessons can be drawn to help continue the downward trend over the next 5 to 10 years.
Home safety
- Research to establish the nature and extent of home and leisure injury prevention activities in England, Wales and Scotland with a particular focus on levels of investment, programme delivery and outcomes in each Nation.
Water and leisure safety
- Research into the effectiveness of safety & risk education programmes such as LASER.
Safety education
- Research, development and evaluation of new safety and risk education resources for use in schools.
How to enter
Applicants should be made on no more than two sides of A4 setting out the case for the proposed research;
- Aims and objectives
- Methodologies to be employed
- Timescales
- Anticipated costs
- Benefits
- And supervisory arrangements.
Summary biographical details of researchers and supervisors should also be included (additional A4 can be used for this information).
The closing date for applications is 2nd April 2012.
Winners will be announced at the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards in Birmingham next May.
For further information about the scheme please contact me at RoSPA (Email rbibbings@rospa.com Tel 0121 248 2095).
2011 Award Winners
Update on 2010 Projects
Update on 2009 Projects
2011 Scholarship Award Winners
- What are the challenges to engaging stakeholders in fall prevention?
Nicola Isaacs, Dr Karen Whittaker, Dr Bev French, Dr Christina Lyons, School of Health, University of Central Lancashire
Awarded £3,250
Aim:
To build on the work of a recent Knowledge Transfer Partnership project that developed and piloted a fall prevention intervention to explore factors which may affect a stakeholder involvement with a fall prevention strategy and intervention programme.
2 year part time study
- An investigation into the medium-long term effects of the National Home Safety Equipment Scheme for pre-school children (three year project)
Gail Errington, Dr Michael Watson and Dr Catrin Evans, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Queens Medical Centre, University of Nottingham
Awarded £65,172
Three year project.
- KISS – Kiosk Injury Surveillance System
Thomas Hughes, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford and Dr Edward Norris-Cervetto, Oxford Deanery
Awarded £20,000
Aims:
This study will compare injury data collection provided by patients through kiosk computer terminals with that obtained from direct focused interviews.
One year project
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