The Bradford Institute for Health Research (BIHR) opened in April 2007 at Temple Bank House (Bradford Royal Infirmary), and is an exciting landmark in the development of health research. It aims to improve health through high quality research that is locally relevant and internationally significant through becoming a national centre for excellence in health research forging unique research collaboration between the people of Bradford, the NHS community and the Universities of Leeds and Bradford.
In creating a health research system in which partners support outstanding individuals and teams, working in high quality facilities, conducting important leading edge research, focused on the needs of patients and the public five goals for the BIHR have been identified.
As part of the Institute’s aim to develop and attract the best researchers the BIHR Board wishes to encourage key research individuals to become members of the BIHR.
Membership of the Bradford Institute for Health Research will be available to all staff employed by the BIHR partners and who are involved in research. Three types of membership will be available:
Membership will be awarded to Institute investigators who are directly engaged in doing research or support research led by others. This includes all research staff working on research projects including lead researchers, other senior researchers and research assistants. It also includes all clinical and clinical support staff, and scientific, laboratory and technical staff who are involved in research led by others.
Associate status: will be awarded to those staff that are undertaking an academic qualification and/or small research project and have no previous research experience but would benefit from the experience and expertise of the BIHR staff.
Honorary Fellowship of the Institute will be offered to highly regarded researchers who are not employed by any of the partner organisations. This includes researchers employed by organisations such as charities or industry or those who have a track record of high calibre research collaboration with researchers in the Institute.
Academic staff from the University of Bradford and the University of Leeds with honorary contracts with the BIHR NHS partners will be eligible for Institute membership.
Membership will bring with it a number of benefits:
The Institutes aims to have a strong national profile for excellence in research and to be self funded. Membership will therefore require a number of obligations.
Membership of the Institute will be for three years in the first instance with potential for renewal for a further three years and every three years thereafter.
Application is via a short CV Proforma (see attached). As the eligibility for membership is based on the individual being actively involved in research then it is this evidence that is being considered when the application is reviewed.
Once completed the application should be sent to:
Sadia Khaliq, PA to General Manager, Bradford Institute for Health Research, Temple Bank House, Bradford Royal Infirmary, Duckworth Lane, Bradford BD9 6RJ or emailed to sadia.khaliq@bthft.nhs.uk
Membership will be awarded based on the following criteria:
Associate status will be considered for those who may not fulfil all of the above criteria.
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