British Society for Research on Ageing

Summary

The NDA Programme has just announced its first Sand-Pit. This is on Nutrition for Older People.

Sand-Pits are a well-tried approach for generating novel research proposals, and they do work. Basically a Sand-Pit is a five day think-tank which generates proposals of which quite a high proportion are then funded (often with agreement to fund being secured at the end of the five days not months later). But to benefit from this process you have to be on the inside track.

That means applying to take part, and getting selected! There is £2m at stake so it's well worth taking an interest.