List members may be interested in making outline applications to this new
ESRC research programme on Innovative Health Technologies, details below.
Please feel free to post this to other lists. Calls in the national press
being made this week and via the ESRC's own web page: www.esrc.ac.uk
Professor Andrew Webster, IHT Programme Director
Department of Sociology
University of York
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CALL FOR OUTLINE PROPOSALS FOR THE INNOVATIVE HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES (IHTs)
PROGRAMME
Innovative Health Technologies Research Programme: Call for Outline
Proposals (First Phase)
The Economic and Social Research Council is inviting outline research
proposals for projects under the first phase of the above Programme from
researchers based at UK Higher Education Institutions and other research
institutes eligible for Research Council funds. This call is being issued
in collaboration with the Medical Research Council.
A budget of up to £5 million will be made available for the whole
Programme. It will advance our understanding of the interaction between
innovative health technologies (IHTs) and wider changes in society. IHTs
might be involved in new drugs, devices, procedures and wider
socio-technical and organisational change. The MRC has agreed in
partnership with the ESRC to co-sponsor the Programme by partly or fully
funding projects on a case by case basis.
The central objectives of the Programme are to:
*explore the ways in which IHTs are related to risk perception and the
social management of risk;
*explore the ways in which IHTs relate to conceptions of the self, identity
and the meaning of health and illness;
*assess how IHTs affect the distribution of knowledge and power between
medicine and the public;
*determine the impact of IHTs on innovation and economic competitiveness;
*examine the cultural and ethical manifestations and dilemmas of IHTs and,
*evaluate the effect IHTs have on patterns of social exclusion and inclusion.
Applicants are invited to submit a research outline, focused on one or more
of these topics, indicating how they propose to address the research
questions outlined in the research specification. Applications from
transdisciplinary research teams, spanning medical and social science are
particularly welcome.
The closing date for applications is Monday, 17th January 1999.
Applications postmarked after 5 p.m. on this date will not be accepted for
consideration.
Further information and electronic copies of the application form can be
obtained from the ESRCs Website HYPERLINK http://www.esrc.ac.uk
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