Massage Therapy Research Funds

Holistic Health Research announces 2010 Open Research Competition in Massage Therapy

 

The Holistic Health Research Foundation of Canada

A reminder that the Holistic Health Research Foundation competition is open and taking submissions until September 30, 2010. A total funding amount of $50,000 is offered. Grant applications up to $15,000 will be considered.

Through its Massage Therapy Research Fund (MTRF), Holistic Health Research invites applications in:

- clinical research (primary focus)
- mechanisms of action and policy issues (secondary focus)
 
Studies may be qualitative, quantitative, or mixed method. Initially, funding preference will be given to smaller, pilot, or creative study designs. In this way, the MTRF aims to assist the scientific and massage communities in building a foundation for the eventual construction of more complicated research projects. The MTRF encourages applications that also seek funding from other sources.

The principal investigator must be affiliated with a Canadian charitable institution (university or hospital) that is willing to administer the finances of the grant. Funds are awarded to the charitable institution, not to an individual. The research team may include members affiliated with a non-Canadian institution. One member of the research team should be a massage therapist. Students at the masters level and above are encouraged to apply. 

The submissions received by Monday, March 1, 2010 at 5 p.m. ET. Applicants will be notified of the status of their applications by May 1, 2010. 

Deadline for the second 2010 competition cycle is Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 5 p.m. ET. Applicants will be notified of the status of theis applications by November 30, 2010.

Application forms and instructions can be downloaded at www.massagetherapyresearch.ca

New Research Funds available in Ontario, Canada
From the Ontario Health Human Resources Research Network (OHHRRN)
These are small research grants and capacity building grants, minimum application is 10K and the maximum is 25K.

Deadline for 2010 has now past, check back for the deadline for 2011.

The research priorities for OHHRRN include:

1. New professional roles (e.g. physician assistants) and expanded roles for existing professionals (e.g., nurse anaesthetists, prescriptive privileges for pharmacists, etc.),

2. New staffing models involving interprofessionalism, task shifting and improved productivity initiatives,

3. Health worker migration/mobility, internationally and interprovincially,

4. Retention initiatives including those that look at work/life balance of an aging workforce,

5. Better linking training to practice which would attend to the competency vs. credentialism debate,

6. HHR issues of managers, planners, and soft funded health service researchers,

7. The role of unregulated health workers including those considered under the umbrella term, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM); and

8. HHR issues in the community, including public health and mental health sectors.

More  about these research funds are available at:
http://www.rorrhs-ohhrrn.ca.

Announcements:

The  Holistic Health Research Foundation of Canada and IN-CAM (Canadian Interdisciplinary Network for CAM research) and are both well established organizations which aim to facilitate and support CAM research activities in Canada. These organizations are announcing the creation of a joint partnership to carry on an annual CAM research grant competition which will be funded through the Canadian CAM Research Fund to ensure continuity of funding opportunities for Canadian CAM researchers and research trainees.

This competition will replace IN-CAM’s Pilot Research Funding Competition and will be separate from Holistic Health Research Foundation’s Massage Therapy Research Fund competition and other research competitions. This fund will be administered through the Holistic Health Research Foundation of Canada.

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