NIHR RfSC research is expected to have a high degree of involvement from relevant users of social care and social care practitioners throughout the research.

RfSC welcomes high quality proposals from researchers and practitioners which are focused on:

• Social care needs and relevant outcomes (which could be quality of life, social or health care related, as appropriate to the study, population etc.)
• Developing a more robust evidence base for current ways of working
• Developing and evaluating new ways of delivering social care
• Secondary data analysis, record linkage and reviews
• Research methods development
• Care users’ and carers’ circumstances and needs
• Those who deliver social care including unpaid carers and the staff and professionals involved in the delivery of social care e.g. social workers.

Applicants considering submitting a Stage 1 application should consider submitting an outline of their proposal for guidance before official submission. This can be done using the pre-submission form. This is non-mandatory and purely aimed at helping potential applicants to engage with the requirements of the call (e.g. eligibility and remit). For other questions, contact rfsc@nihr.ac.uk

Submission deadline for application is 1pm on 19 January 2022.

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