Will the Health Services Research programme consider funding the UK ‘arm’ of a multi-national study?
The HSR programme has no objection, in principle, to joint funding. The HSR programme would, however, need to be clear about where responsibility lay contractually in terms of publication, copyright, and research governance issues etc. These issues would need to be fully addressed at the full proposal stage by the applicant if the outline proposal was shortlisted. At outline stage it would be sensible to refer to this arrangement briefly with a clear indication that further information would be provided at full proposal stage if shortlisted.