Join us for our next Research Sandpit

Are you from one of our partner organisations?

Do you have a fantastic idea for a health and social care research project?

The next Research Sandpit is taking place on Friday 28 April, at the Thomas Paine Study Centre with a networking lunch provided from 12 midday.

If you have an idea for a health and social care research project, and would like to attend, please submit your idea for the sandpit event here.

Our twice-yearly Research Sandpits help turn your great ideas into fundable projects. These collaborative sandpits act like an 'incubator' for promising ideas for early-stage research and innovation.

• Our research sandpits provide networking opportunities and extended discussion time between researchers and partners to turn good ideas into proposals that can catalyse opportunities for funding practice-led research.
• We provide tailored support to interested individuals and teams from our partner organisations to refine their ideas into workable research proposals that can then either receive seed funding from future partnership funding calls or bigger grants.
• We link researchers together with experienced research facilitators who help to shape proposals with input from citizens and service users drawn from the UEA Citizens Academy. Our expert facilitators are either subject experts in the field or experienced in research design or leading large scale complex programmes of research.
• Where applicable, we also provide support for working out the costings of projects.

Please find out more about about this opportunity here.