The Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network will be hosting three calls for applications for small grants to support research in specific areas, to address identified gaps in knowledge, and to improve the knowledge-base in areas of new challenge or changing policy and practice. Grants are available up to a maximum of £25,000 and can be used to deliver a targeted piece of research or to pump-prime larger projects. Each of the three calls (one per year) will be themed: measurement, understanding and intervention.
Small Grant Call 2021: Interventions
This year's VAMHN small grant call will be on the theme of interventions for violence, abuse and mental health.
Applications are now open and close on 2nd June 2021 at 5pm.
To find out the full details of this small grant call please read our application pack (below) which includes:
a) Concept Note on Interventions for Violence which provides guidance on the scope of the call
b) Call for grants: Terms of Reference
c) Frequently Asked Questions on the grant call which can guide you through the application process
d) The Application Form
Also available below is the VAMHN budget spreadsheet. Please fill out both the application form and the budget spreadsheet and email the two completed documents to [email protected] with the email header 'NAME OF PI_Small grant application: Understanding'.
This year's VAMHN small grant call will be on the theme of interventions for violence, abuse and mental health.
Applications are now open and close on 2nd June 2021 at 5pm.
To find out the full details of this small grant call please read our application pack (below) which includes:
a) Concept Note on Interventions for Violence which provides guidance on the scope of the call
b) Call for grants: Terms of Reference
c) Frequently Asked Questions on the grant call which can guide you through the application process
d) The Application Form
Also available below is the VAMHN budget spreadsheet. Please fill out both the application form and the budget spreadsheet and email the two completed documents to [email protected] with the email header 'NAME OF PI_Small grant application: Understanding'.
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To offer additional guidance on the involvement of people with lived experience of violence, abuse and/or mental health issues within applications, please refer to the below document detailing the rating criteria:
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Please note: In these criteria we recommend having at least one co-applicant with lived experience. We appreciate that co-applicants may not be comfortable disclosing that they have lived experience of violence, abuse, or mental health problems and that we would therefore accept a statement in the application form to indicate that one (or more) of the applicants have relevant lived experience but they do not have to specify which applicants have/do not have this experience.
Resources
The network is committed to working with the third sector effectively and engaging with victim/survivors in co-production in meaningful, non-exploitative ways. Applicants may find it useful to refer to the following resources:
- On the 7th May 2021 we ran a webinar with members of our Lived Experience Advisory Group to offer guidance to applicants on lived experience involvement in research. Please find their presentation slides below which you may find useful:
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- VAMHN Consultation Report on Survivor's Priority Themes and Questions for Research available here.
- VAMHN's expectations around lived experience involvement in the Interventions grant call available here.
- The National Survivor User Network (NSUN) 4Pi National Involvement Standards available here.
- Turning Pain into Power: A Charter for Organisations Engaging Abuse Survivors in Projects, Research and Service Development available here.
- NIHR Central Commissioning Facility Reward and recognition for public contributors: A guide to the payment of fees and expenses available here.
- Podcast: Engaging with the voluntary and community sector - Emerging Minds available here.
For enquiries about the application process, please email [email protected]
Small Grant Call 2020: Understanding (call closed)
We'll be updating you shortly on the projects we recently funded as part of our second grant call on understanding violence, abuse and mental health. Click here to read the concept note of our second grant call on understanding click here.