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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Professor Andrew Webster, IHT Programme Director
Director SATSU
Department of Sociology
University of York
York YO10 5DD
Tel: +44 (0)1904 434740 (direct)
+44 (0)1904 433043 (Dept office)
Fax: +44 (0)1904 433044
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