Research Challenge

The Research Challenge is designed to support Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH) point-of-care staff who do not have research experience to consider a practice area that might be improved and create a research project to discover how best to improve it.

The Research Challenge will:

• Provide information, mentorship and funding for you
• Help you to learn about research and conduct your own clinical practice project
• Answer a question you have about your clinical practice

Eligibility

Each team must include at least one point-of-care staff member. All team leaders must be 0.5 or greater FTE at VCH for at least one year (full-time or part-time).

Deadlines

Registration/LOI deadline: Monday, November 6, 2023 by 4:00pm (PT)

Register

Application deadline: Monday, February 12, 2024 by 4:00pm (PT)

Submit Application

Forms and Guidelines

• Guidelines
• Application Instructions
• Research Module
• Statement of Support
• Mentorship Plan
• Patient Engagement Module
• Biographical Sketch*
• Additional Resources

For VCH applicants without a University of British Columbia (UBC) appointment**: 

• Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) Grant Cover Sheet

For applicants with a UBC appointment**: 

• UBC Research Project Information Form (RPIF)
• See instructions on how to complete the RPIF here.

*VCHRI is now using a biographical sketch for all internal award funding opportunities. See the instructions on how to complete this section of the application. 

**If you have an appointment at both UBC and VCH, you only need to complete the RPIF, not the VCHRI Grant Cover Sheet.

Funding Partners

VCHRI partners with Richmond Hospital Foundation, VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation, and Transplant Research Foundation of BC.