The Department of Health has agreed to fund an intern programme to widen access to research awareness and capability for AHPs, nurses and midwives.
Final details are not yet available yet but we have some provisional information which should be useful to anyone who may be able to offer one or more intern placements in their organisation.
The need for an intern programme was identified in the recently published strategy ' Developing the role of the Clinical Academic Researcher in Nursing, Midwifery and AHPs' http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/documents/digitalasset/dh_133094.pdf
The purpose of the scheme is to help clinical staff understand what is involved in a research career and gain research experience prior to undertaking MRes study. The intern placement should be part time for 4 – 6 months, for example, it could be involvement with data collection for a research study for one day a week and should provide mentorship support.
Potential applicants for internships will be graduates with limited research experience. Individuals who already have an MRes would not be eligible but those with an MSc may be eligible depending on how much research experience they have.
The DH are transferring the funding to the SHA clusters to distribute. They are currently discussing final details of the scheme and how it will operate but it is likely that each SHA will have some flexibility to use the funding in ways that suit them locally.
There will be £10K per internship which will go to the organisation offering the scheme not the individual interns but the money should be used to support individuals (salary etc).
There will be 150 internships throughout England.
The funding has been agreed at very short notice and has to be allocated and utilised (internships completed) before March 2013.
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