The Della Fish Foundation : Charity number 1204680 enquiries@thedellafishfoundation.co.uk

Grants

GRANT APPLICATIONS 2024/25



Desired aims of teaching learning and research for grant application

The objects of The Della Fish Foundation are to promote, help develop and advance medical education for the public benefit. The founders want a (but not exclusive) focus on postgraduate medical education guided by the understanding of worthwhile education in the Moral Mode of practice.



The research should be collaborative and aim to advance the knowledge and education of the medical profession with a view to improving service and outcomes for patients, service users and their families and carers and the general public. The research must be creative and push boundaries for the betterment of practice. There are two levels of GRANTS, SMALL GRANTS and LARGE GRANTS.

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Small Grants Award

These GRANTS will aim to fund educational research projects including funding to cover expenses for participation in meetings, lectures, seminars, conferences, and education courses. The grants are not intended to supplement the natural support that institutions should give to individuals such as salaries.

All recipients of the Small Grants Award will be contractually obligated to produce an end-of-project report to TDFF Board of Trustees and to make, via open licence, any teaching/learning resource produced available for open access on TDFF website. Any published work resulting from this Grant must contain reference to the funding source of TDFF.

The maximum award per individual or project under the scheme will be £20,000. Bids for smaller amounts of funding are welcomed and encouraged. Receiving a grant will not prohibit productive bids from applying again in the future.



Applications

(Once completed please email the form back to us via enquiries@thedellafishfoundation.co.uk)

Applications should be made by completing the form below which requires you to submit an outline of the proposal in no more than 500 words (excluding references) and clearly outline:

1. Brief critique of background literature and justified need for the project
2. Description of project including:

3. Costed justification of funding required

If the above criteria are not met, then the submission will be rejected due to the instructions not being adhered to. The Trustee Grants Group may ask for a more detailed proposal from those short-listed. We particularly welcome applicants from diverse and under-represented backgrounds and encourage applicants to ask any more detailed information via the Chair of the Foundation.



We welcome your application. Please look carefully at the criteria provided to be sure your applicant team and application meet the stated criteria. Unfortunately, we cannot comment on whether specific applications or application ideas meet the criteria, since this is a group decision made by a panel of reviewers but do let us know if the criteria are unclear.

The assessors’ decision is final for all awards and no correspondence will be entered into regarding the outcome, other than providing the applicant with the result and the assessors’ feedback.

Hermeneutics in Healthcare: Incorporating Meaning into Healthcare Practice and Education.

Dr Rupal Shah (GP Partner, Bridge Lane Group Practice London; Associate Dean Professional Development Team NHSE-WTE, London) and Dr Bob Clarke (retired GP and medical educator).



Training for dialogue and compassion in a polarised world.

Professor Dina Kiwan, Professor of Comparative Education, College of Education, University of Birmingham; Dr John Launer, Training Programme Director for Educational Innovation, NHS England Workforce, Training and Education Directorate; Honorary Consultant, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust; Honorary Associate Clinical Professor, University College London Medical School; Dr Nadia Dabbagh, Consultant Child Psychiatrist; Chief of Division, Paediatric Mental Health, Dubai Health; Dr Dita Wickins-Drazilova, Associate Professor, University of Birmingham Medical School; EDI Lead on MBchB programme; Dr Rob Senior, Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust; Professor Amanda Howe OBE, Emeritus Professor of Primary Care, University of East Anglia; Past President of World Organisation of Family Doctors(WONCA.)



Getting to the heart of patient stories: developing doctors’ use of narrative inquiry for praxis and phronesis in postgraduate medical education.

Anne Chappell Reader and Head of the Department of Education And Tracey Collett Associate Professor in the Sociology of Health and Illness, Peninsula Medical School.



Masterclass Professor Paul McGee to attend a foundation doctors teaching half day.

Dr Lyndsay Cheater (FPD 3 year tenure), Jan Ellis, Med Ed Manager & Zoe Jones, Foundation Programme Administrator.



Investigating the impact of spiritual education on medical students wellbeing and practice.

Dr Nicola Tuppen Clinical Teaching Fellow Birmingham Medical School.



The Ethics of Money in Medicine.

Professor Gillian Conde, Birmingham Medical School.



Understanding postgraduate educational needs in relation to environmentally sustainable healthcare and the potential for new provision to address these; a qualitative study from Cambridge, England.

Dr Rebecca Davis, Climate Change Medical Education Fellow & GP, Cambridge.



Wise faculty nurturing wise learners; a qualitative exploration of how faculty teach phronesis through simulation based education for healthcare professionals.

Jeremy Reid, Registrar in ENT Surgery, University Hospitals Birmingham, NHS England Simulation and Digital Learning Fellow, MEd student, Healthcare Professional Education, University of Birmingham.



Reflethics.

Paquita de Zulueta Imperial College, London.



Evaluating how teaching final year medical students about personhood influences their own development and aspirations for professional practice.

Ross Bryson, General practioner, Birmingham.

Large Grants Award

These LARGE GRANTS will aim to support longer educational research projects requiring large amounts of money to cover the expenses and costs for example, of creating and setting up an educational programme and its evaluation or the long-term review and evaluation of past teaching programmes and their effect on changing healthcare practice for the betterment of patient care.

All recipients of the Larger Grants Award will be contractually obligated to produce an end-of-project report to TDFF Board of Trustees and to make, via open licence, any teaching/learning resource produced available for open access on TDFF website.

The maximum award per individual or project under the scheme may be up to £100,000 over two years. Receiving a grant will not prohibit productive bids from applying again in the future.

The grants are not intended to supplement the natural support that institutions should give to individuals such as salaries.



Applications

Applications are required in two parts (Once completed please email the form back to us via enquiries@thedellafishfoundation.co.uk)

The First Part

Applications should be made by completing the form below which requires you to submit an outline of the proposal in no more than 500 words (excluding references) and clearly outline:

1. Brief critique of background literature and justified need for the project
2. Description of project including: