ESCN 2024 Systematic and Scoping Review Grant

Eligibility

Principal Investigators (PIs)

• PIs must be affiliated with an Alberta-based academic institution.
• The team must be comprised of more than one individual and include a medical librarian.
• The team must be comprised of at least one member with an MD or a PhD in a discipline relevant to emergency medicine (i.e., content knowledge).
• Past experience in conducting research relevant to emergency medicine.
• Past experience in conducting systematic or scoping literature reviews is essential.
• PIs may only hold one Emergency Strategic Clinical Network (ESCN) Systematic or Scoping Review award at a time.

Summary

The purpose of this funding call is to offer timely, relevant and scientifically rigorous evidence to emergency medicine decision-makers and knowledge-users in Alberta. In addition to achieving the goal of Building Research Capacity, this funding opportunity also serves to engage and collaborate with the network of academic researchers established by the Emergency Strategic Clinical Network (ESCN) Scientific Office. Further, this funding call supports the Alberta Health Services (AHS) Strategy for Clinical Health Research Innovation and Analytics which endorses partnerships with academic researchers at Alberta universities.

This competition will encourage the development of implementable and scalable ideas that will improve the quality of emergency medicine care delivery within the Health Quality Council of Alberta’s six domains of quality: appropriateness, accessibility, effectiveness, efficiency, safety, and acceptability. This competition will advance the ESCN Scientific Office’s long-term research goals, which are aligned with the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences’ performance indicators: (1) advancing knowledge; (2) capacity building; (3) informing decision making; (4) health impacts; and (5) broad economic and social impacts. Alignment with ESCN priority areas is also a review criterion. This competition will advance priorities of relevance to the ESCN mandate, particularly those related to the ESCN Transformational Roadmap or emerging from the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition, the degree to which proposed projects promote Equity, Diversity and Inclusion will be considered in evaluation of all research project applications.

Patient and Family Advisors may be included as project team members. Groups which work to assist researchers in engaging Patient and Family Advisors include the Alberta Strategy for Patient Oriented Research SUPPORT Unit (AbSPORU) and University of Calgary Patient and Community Engagement Research (PaCER) program.

Submission Process

This competition will be part of the Research Management System (RMS), and approvals will be obtained electronically. Research Funding Application Approvals (RFAA) forms are not required as approvals are collected electronically in RMS.

Full Proposal

The Full Proposal, plus approval in the Research Management System (RMS) using a Pre-Award/Application record, must be submitted to RSO by January 23, 2024 at 12:00 pm. Please be sure to select 'Submitted for approval' (under Save & Progress) in RMS in good time to allow for approvals from your Department Head and/or ADR prior to the RSO internal deadline. Consult your department and faculty for more information on their approval processes and timelines.

Do not submit to the agency until RSO's approval has been granted in RMS. Once this institutional approval has been obtained, the Principal Investigator will receive an automated message from RMS to their @ucalgary email address. You can then proceed with submitting your application to the ESCN by January 26, 2024. You must submit the application as a single PDF via email to emergency.scn@ahs.ca (CC: patrick.mclane@ahs.ca).

Resources

• ESCN Systematic and Scoping Review Grant Call for Proposals
• Systematic and Scoping Review Proposal Template
• ESCN Program Contact: emergency.scn@ahs.ca

Overhead

N/A

Application deadlines

RSO detailed review deadline

RSO final internal review deadline

Program application deadline

NOTE: Consult your Faculty Associate Dean (Research) (ADR) regarding Faculty-specific deadlines and submission processes.

Principal Investigators: Complete a Research Management System (RMS) record, including a copy of your complete application, and submit this for approvals in RMS.

Postdocs, students, and trainees: For fellowships and externally-sponsored research training awards or opportunities, you must complete the Research Funding Application Approval (RFAA) Trainee PDF form, and submit it, along with a complete copy of the application, to Research Services at rsotrainee@ucalgary.ca. Trainees should not use RMS at this time.

Approvals: The University of Calgary requires that all funding applications be approved prior to submission. Approval requires signatures via either RMS or the RFAA Trainee form, in the following order:

• Principal Investigator
• Department Head
• Faculty ADR/Dean
• Research Services (on behalf of the Vice-President Research)

Read the Meaning of Grant Signatures policy to understand what your approval means. Please see the agency guidelines for details about which signatures are required on your application, as it may differ from internal requirements.

Late submissions: Late submissions will only be accepted in cases of medical or family emergencies, or other exceptional circumstances. If you submit your RMS record to Research Services after the internal deadline has passed, you must secure additional approvals. Please read: Late Applications Process.

Resources

Support for EDI in Research:

RSO can provide resources and support to research teams on the integration of equitable and inclusive practices in research design and research practice. Contact Erin.OToole@ucalgary.ca for more information.

Support for projects involving Indigenous Research:

Support with the development of your grant application is available internally through the Indigenous Research Support Team (IRST). Applicants can reach out by email to IRST at IRST@ucalgary.ca in advance of the RSO internal deadline. For more information about IRST, please visit the IRST webpage.

Support for Knowledge Engagement:

Support for knowledge mobilization/engagement/translation is available internally through the Knowledge Engagement Team. Applicants can reach out by email to the KE team at knowledge.engagement@ucalgary.ca in advance of the RSO internal deadline. For more information, please visit the KE team webpage.

Support for Research Data Management:

For information on research data management plans, processes, or best practices for your research program, please contact research.data@libanswers.ucalgary.com and/or visit https://libguides.ucalgary.ca/researchdatamanagement.

RMS: Creating a Pre-Award Application