Applications Invited for PIECEs Small Scale Research Grant

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About the Organization

Approximately 5-8% of the world’s population suffer from a Severe Mental Illness (SMI) presenting a major challenge worldwide.

SMI causes significant distress to affected people, families and wider communities, generating high costs through loss of productivity and ongoing healthcare use. The burden is greatest in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where there may be a lack of financial resources and qualified staff to provide extensive specialised services.

PIECEs’ research programme will explore, adapt and test a low-cost, generic approach (DIALOG+) that makes use of existing resources to improve community-based care for patients with psychosis and reduce the need for institutionalisation in India and Pakistan. DIALOG+ is an app-mediated intervention that has been shown to improve mental health outcomes. The research will also develop a participatory arts work which will focus on giving voice to people with psychosis and their experiences as well as engage local communities, opening conversations about mental illness.

About the Grant

The Small Scale Research Grants is offered as part of the programme for research capacity building and community engagement development of the PIECEs research, a collaborative research that aims to explore, adapt, and test a low-cost, app-based approach (DIALOG+) that makes use of existing resources to improve community-based care for patients with psychosis and reduce the need for institutionalisation. The overall aim of PIECEs is to improve the quality of community-based care for people with psychosis in India and Pakistan by adapting and testing this approach, and up-scaling through the use of participatory arts methodologies and community engagement.

Nature of proposals

• The aim of this grant is to help develop and strengthen the skills, instincts, abilities, processes and resources of early career researchers to adapt, and grow in the areas of research, clinical, community engagement, community care of people with experience of psychosis, their carers and health workers.
• Research Proposals focussing on psychoses are invited from Early Career Researchers in the fields of Mental Health, Arts and Community Engagement, Health and Mental Health Evaluation, and Health Economics. Research Proposals focussing on psychoses are preferred.
• Community treatment of psychosis – development of projects or resource oriented approaches that  provide community day-to-day support and strengthen local awareness around people with experience of psychosis, their carers and health workers to ensure they have resources or pathways of care within their local community.
• Arts, Community engagement and Mental Health – Projects or activities that enable public participation and involvement to promote relationship building through learning, action, and the expression of needs and values through the arts, culture or community led activities for people with experience of psychosis, their carers and health workers.
• Evaluation methods – Proposals that enable the creation of innovative criterias, approaches and methodologies around evaluating the success of a given program or project in the field of research, clinical interventions, community engagement and the arts involving people with experience of psychosis, their carers and health care workers.

Who can apply

The Small Scale Grants is open to support individual or collectives who work as academicians, researchers, health workers, clinicians and persons with lived experienced who are currently working/partnering with SCARF. We encourage particularly researchers, health workers, practitioners and facilitators on early career or junior positions.

How to Apply

Thank you for showing interest in applying for the PIECEs Small Scale Research Grant. Make sure you read the guidelines before you apply. Please fill in the application form below along with the project proposal, completed budget  (template attached) and submit with your CV (2 pages max; CV should give details of previous research experience, if any) to Dr. Padmavati  (padmavati@scarfindia.org).

Download Application form and budget template here.

Deadline for application: 1st October 2022 (11.30 pm)

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