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Research Funding

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 30 November 2021

Tuesday, 30 November 2021

Ceisteanna (688)

Claire Kerrane

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688. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Health the funding streams available for research purposes that could be accessed by a PhD student in research concerning children with intellectual disabilities and autism in tabular form. [58970/21]

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The Health Research Board (HRB) is the largest funder of health research in the state. The HRB is committed to training, supporting and developing academic researchers and health and care practitioners along the journey from doctoral training to research leadership. There are two separate research career pathways; each one is underpinned by a specific set of funding schemes.

1. Health and care practitioners (This refers to anyone providing clinical care including medics, allied health professionals, dentists, nurses and midwives.). Doctoral training is through the ICAT Scheme and Collaborative Doctoral Awards www.hrb.ie/funding/funding-schemes/health-research-career-paths/health-and-care-practitioners/

2. Academic researchers. The research career path for academic researchers aims to support and develop people along the journey from doctoral training to research leadership. Doctoral training is through the Structured Population and Health-services Research Education (SPHeRE) PhD Scholars Programme and Collaborative Doctoral Awards: www.hrb.ie/funding/funding-schemes/health-research-career-paths/academic-researchers/

Please note that these are PhD structured programme and not individual scholarships. Recruitment of PhD students is done through the funded programmes, not directly by the HRB, to match the focus of the programme.

Individual project and program grants may also recruit PhD students, although this is not their primary focus. In terms of the specific interests of the PQ, the program that is the closest in interest, and which is currently being renewed for a further phase of activity is IDS-TILDA (Intellectual Disability Supplement to TILDA, the national Longitudinal Study on Ageing). However, this program is focused on adults with ID, as opposed to children.

The Irish Research Council, through its Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship Programme (research.ie/funding/goipg/?f=postgraduate) supports individual awards for excellent research in the name of the applicant. This scheme funds across all disciplines, from archaeology to zoology and awards are for bottom-up, non-directed research.

Question No. 689 answered with Question No. 687.
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