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 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 2000.
They should be submitted to the Registrar, ESRC,
Polaris House, North Star Avenue, Swindon SN2 1UJ. Applications postmarked
after 5pm on this date will not be accepted for consideration.
Further information and electronic copies of the application form can be
obtained from the ESRC's Website www.esrc.ac.uk/fundops.htm or by sending
an e-mail to: [log in to unmask]
Professor Andrew Webster - IHT Programme Director
Department of Sociology
University of York
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