VicHealth Impact Research Grants

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Grant Name

Funder

Victorian Health Promotion Foundation (VicHealth)

Government of Victoria

Country or Region

Australia

Research Field

Alcoholism Prevention

Alcoholism Treatment

Alcohol or Alcoholism

Child or Adolescent Mental Health

Exercise

Health Care

Health Care Planning or Policy

Health Promotion

Medical Intervention Methods

Mental Health

Nutrition Education

Nutrition or Dietetics

Physical Fitness

Deadline

February 10, 2022 (Expired)

Grant Size

Upper $200,000AUD VicHealth will provide up to $200,000 over two years for each project. Up to five (5) projects may be funded in this round.

Contact Info

researchgrants@vichealth.vic.gov.au

Eligibility

Applications must be submitted from researchers at an eligible administering institution (research organisation or university). The research must be conducted in Victoria and benefit Victorians. The administering institution may be based interstate. Research Officers, Research Assistants, and current PhD students cannot usually apply as a Chief Investigator for these grants. However, it is entirely acceptable to include provisions for a Research Assistant or PhD student in the proposal.

Description

VicHealth is calling for grant applications for policy and practice impact research. To be considered for funding, research proposals must address one of the research priorities detailed below. Applications that also incorporate a focus on health equity will be viewed favourably.1. Mental Wellbeing
- Develop, trial and validate an evidence informed, co-designed digital approach that builds young people's (aged 12-25 years) face-to-face social connections and enhances their mental wellbeing.
- Undertake a robust independent evaluation of existing program(s) aimed at engaging men and boys in gender equality, particularly focusing on efforts to transform harmful gender stereotypes, masculinities and negative social norms, attitudes and behaviours.
- Investigate or monitor policy change in relation to gender equality, to improve our understanding of the policy and other levers for creating social change towards gender equality or to track and demonstrate the impact of policy and legislation change in Victoria.2. Healthy Eating
- Develop, trial and validate an approach to engage with families to increase vegetable consumption among children aged 3-12 years.
- Develop, trial and validate an approach to build capacity of the community to reduce junk food consumption in a local community.
- Improve the understanding of the digital food environment (e.g. the rise of digital food delivery services, social media, reliance on convenience and fast food options) and how this is impacting dietary behaviours; and develop, trial and validate an approach which leads to healthier food choices in this environment.3. Physical Activity
- Improve the understanding of parental attitudes towards children's physical activity and how this impacts children's physical activity outcomes. With this knowledge, develop, trial and validate an approach to increase children's physical activity outcomes by addressing parental attitudes.
- Improve the understanding of people's patterns of travel throughout the day and attitudes towards regular short active travel trips within a neighbourhood; and develop, trial and validate an approach to increase the number of regular short trips adopted within the neighbourhood.
- Develop, trial and validate a local level approach to shift and change children's leisure time to include more physical activity.4. Alcohol
- Develop, trial and validate an approach to reduce harm in localities and communities with high rates of alcohol-related harm. Applications with an academic and community/local partnership will be viewed favourably.
- Improve the understanding of the demographic factors, normative beliefs and social and cultural markers of those groups who engage in risky drinking; and then test a tailored alcohol culture change intervention to reduce risky drinking.
- Develop, trial and validate an approach to embed existing evidence-based alcohol brief interventions in primary or community care settings (e.g. primary care, community health, allied health), with a focus on the successful factors that contribute to practitioner uptake.5. Tobacco
- Develop, trial and validate an approach to support successful cessation attempts and prevent relapse among those with complex needs in healthcare settings.
- Trial an enhancement to an existing smoking cessation support approach for the purpose of strengthening the effectiveness and/or the sustainability of the approach.
- Develop, trial and validate an approach to prevent uptake and increase smoking cessation among Aboriginal Victorians.6. Health Equity
- Trial a knowledge exchange tool for the purpose of increasing the understanding of the social determinants of health and health equity for practical application in research and policy development.
- Trial an approach that increases public awareness and knowledge of social determinants of health and health equity. Eligibility Applications must be submitted from researchers at an eligible administering institution (research organisation or university). The research must be conducted in Victoria and benefit Victorians. The administering institution may be based interstate. Research Officers, Research Assistants, and current PhD students cannot usually apply as a Chief Investigator for these grants. However, it is entirely acceptable to include provisions for a Research Assistant or PhD student in the proposal.

Website

https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/funding/impact-research-grants

Funding resources
Purdue Grant Writing Lab: Introduction to Grant Writing	Open Link
University of Wisconsin Writing Center: Planning and Writing a Grant Proposal	Open Link