BASPCAN grants for child protection research

2011 Research Grant Awards

2011 is the sixth year of the BASPCAN Research Grant Awards for individual BASPCAN members undertaking or completing small scale research projects on child protection.

This year BASPCAN will be awarding grants to collaborative applications made by practitioners & researchers (academic and other) working in partnership.

The research must have a clear focus on child protection/safeguarding. Preference will be given to applications that are multi-disciplinary or multi-agency in nature.

The grant can be used to fund new research or to provide a means to extend or develop existing research. The research must not involve work that would normally be undertaken by an organisation as part of its regular monitoring processes. The grant will not cover any university overheads.

BASPCAN encourages members from all UK countries to apply for a grant, up to a maximum of £5,000. It is envisaged that two awards will be made in 2011.

Applications for the awards should be submitted along with a brief summary CV for all applicants (one page for each applicant maximum) to the BASPCAN National Office by email to baspcan@baspcan.org.uk by 5pm on Friday 23 September 2011, marked' BASPCAN Research Awards'.

A signed copy should also be posted to the BASPCAN National Office at 17 Priory Street, York YO1 6ET.

Further information, the Research Grant Application Form and Eligibility Criteria are available here by clicking this link. 

Any enquiries should be directed to  BASPCAN National Office, by email to baspcan@baspcan.org.uk however, due to the small amount of funding no correspondence will be entered into in relation to initial research ideas. It will not be possible to provide feedback to unsuccessful applicants.

All applications will be considered by a BASPCAN Committee which will report to the National Executive Committee. The NEC will make final decisions regarding the awards and applicants will be notified by 18 November 2011.

2010 Research Grant Awards

2010 is the fifth year of the BASPCAN Research Grant Awards for BASPCAN members undertaking or completing small scale research projects on child protection.

There were 44 applications and the decision of the Research Grants Awards Committee (Catherine Powell, Jean Price, Jane Appleton, John Devaney and Nicky Stanley) was that two grants be awarded. A grant was made to Jason Upton, Respond and Dr Isabel Clare, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust to take forward their research on 'Child Victims of Domestic Violence: developing a picture-based resource'. 
The second grant was awarded to Rachel Jones, West Midlands Police and Dr Louise Dixon, School of Psychology University of Birmingham whose submission was entitled ‘Outcome of interventions for child victims of domestic violence, determined by initial multiagency scrutiny of police notifications'. 

2009 Research Grant Awards

The recipients of the Research Grant Award  for 2009 were announced officially at Congress 2009; they were Dr Peter Sidebotham and Professor Brigid Daniel.

 

Update on previous BASPCAN Grant Recipients

Jennifer Harris received a BASPCAN research grant in 2006 and this funded her work on a report which has now been accepted for publication in the British Dental Journal as the second part of a 2-part series. Information as follows:

Harris JC, Elcock C, Sidebotham PD, Welbury RR - Safeguarding Children In Dentistry: 2 Do Paediatric Dentists Neglect Child Dental Neglect