Faculty webinar - How the NIHR prioritises research: meeting the needs of evidence users with Dr Claire Kidgell

In this webinar, Dr Kidgell focussed on the way in which the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funds and supports research. Dr Kidgell looked at the differences between the researcher-led and commissioned calls and will describe how researchers have the opportunity to feed ideas and suggestions into the process of identifying topics for commissioned calls. Dr Kidgell also looked at the process of developing an NIHR application - What are NIHR looking for?

This webinar explored NIHR initiatives and priorities around EDI and research inclusion and discussed NIHR expectations about research that it funds being undertaken in under-served communities and in ways that improves people's health and wellbeing and promotes economic growth. 

Dr Claire Kidgell

Dr Claire Kidgell is an Assistant Director at the NIHR leading on the identification and development of opportunities to guide future NIHR research investment. She is also currently Head of Programme for the NIHR Public Health Research programme responsible for the implementation of new strategic initiatives aimed at tackling wider preventable risk factors and determinants of health.

She has extensive experience working across the UK health research system having both worked previously for Cardiff University as a Strategic Research Coordinator and for the Wellcome Trust as a Science Portfolio Advisor. She completed a PhD in microbiology and undertook postdoctoral research at the Scripps Research Institute, San Diego, USA.