Castang Award
Supporting UK research that includes children with neurodisability and their families
BACD and The Castang Foundation support UK research that includes children with neurodisability and their families, and are working together to invite research applications to improve the evidence around what treatments and interventions are effective, or not effective for children and families.
The aim of the award is to gather pilot and feasibility data that leads to an application for a large definitive National Institute for Health Research, Medical Research Council, Wellcome Trust, or Charity funded study into treatments or interventions for children with any type of neurodisability. A key impact of the research will be that the research had the potential to make a real difference to the lives of children with neurodisability and their families within 3-5 years of the definitive application.
Past award winners are:
Have children identified in school census and children in need administrative data as having learning disabilities/learning difficulties had appropriate paediatric clinical assessments completed and reported across agencies? (2022) Dr Sarah Martin-Denham, Prof Lorna Fraser, Dr Karen Horridge, Jacob Donaghue, Gabriella Walker, Maureen Morris
Researching Allied health In Schools and Education (RAISE) (2018) Dr Jennifer McAnuff, Dr Sarah Crombie, Dr Jenny Gibson, Aimee Grayston, Kulwinder Kaur Bola, Dr Lindsay Pennington, Rob Webster
Promoting social participation to prevent mental health problems in children and young people with neurodisability: an interventions development study (2017) Dr Rob Brooks, Dr Niina Kolehmainen, Dr Lindsay Pennington, and Dr Laura Coulthard
The Identification of young children at the highest Risk for developing Severe Challenging behaviour (i-RiSC): Proof of principle and appraisal of feasibility (2016) Professor Chris Oliver