Call for research bids

Closing dates for our next rounds of grant applications are:

End June
End December

Topics in which we are currently interested in receiving grant applications are outlined below. More detail regarding our thinking on some of these topics can be obtained in:

Please note that all grant applications must make provision for at least one of the deliverables to be an evidence based tool that employers in both private and public sector can apply directly at work. Please see our page on Applying for a Grant or telephone Brian Kazer at 020 7034 3420 for a preliminary conversation.

Applications should be sent by e-mail (admin@bohrf.org.uk) and also by post (BOHRF, 6 St Andrews Place, Regents Park, London NW1 4LB)

Performance at Work

Causes of short-term sickness absence (1 – 5 days duration)
Interventions to reduce short-term sickness absence (1 – 5 days duration)
Long term absence: effective ways to predict which long term absentees are likely to return to work.
Research questions that relate to the issues in Dame Carol Black’s review “Working for a healthier tomorrow” (available online at www.workingforhealth.gov.uk)
Reducing costs/improving performance (of people and organisations) through investment in health (is health a place worth investing if you want to see increases in performance and profitability in an increasingly competitive environment) e.g. study to improve leadership training and/or work design to improve productivity, reduce absence rates and improve mental health and musculoskeletal disorders.

Management of occupational health risks

Interventions designed to reduce harm to health and wellbeing of people working in health and leisure sectors.
Fitness for work in employees in traditional industries approaching retirement age
Pre-employment health assessments: optimum methods; what works; benefits/value; how is value best demonstrated

Delivery of Occupational Health Provision

Validation of effectiveness of different methods of delivery of occupational health advice for organisations not having resource to employ occupational health advice in-house. (Including how employees can get more useful information from NHS health care staff in the management of staff with health problems)

Last Update: 15-Mar-2010