NIHR’s quick-response scheme, UK intelligence fellowships, Galton Institute, why research managers are needed

This week, we learn what the NIHR is looking for in bids to the rapid response section of its public health programme that was introduced in 2018. We also hear about the UK Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowships and some small grants on offer at the Galton Institute. Meanwhile, in our Know How section, Adam Golberg explains why academics need the input of non-expert research managers.

This week in Funding Insight

Public health researchers can now get funding to acquire baseline data for urgent projects thanks to the NIHR’s Public Health Research Programme Rapid Funding Scheme. In the first of two articles on the scheme, Andrew Cook, consultant adviser to the NIHR, tells Ashleigh Furlong how some early bids to the scheme fell down.