Four BUPA Foundation Prizes totalling £60,000 – application deadline 1 July

This is the last week you can apply for the BUPA Foundation awards for 2011. The awards focus on recognition for excellent completed work by aspiring and promising new researchers in the early phases of their careers.  There are four awards for 2011, each worth £15,000, for completed research and/or development conducted over the past three years into one of four themes that are:

 

1. Healthy lives prize
   Enabling sustained behaviour changes on physical activity and/or nutrition amongst children, families or in the workplace

2. Patients as partners prize
   Utilising or developing shared-decision making tools for better patient decisions for use amongst disadvantaged or diverse groups

3. Vitality for life prize
   Promoting and encouraging healthy ageing through physical activity and other behaviour-based and social solutions for the older age group (65+ years)

4. Technology for healthy outcomes prize
   Using new technologies to cheaply and effectively organise and interpret health outcomes data - for better design of community health activities and to improve patient decision-making.

 

The awards are open to clinicians, researchers and health care professionals who are UK residents only.  Only completed projects are eligible for submission. The closing date for applications is 1 July 2011.

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