Research

Each year, the charitable funds raised through Grace Research Fund activites and donations are disbursed to support medical research projects, typically with a neonatal focus, to enhance the wellbeing of babies and their families in the local region.

The Awards Committee consists of noted medical academics, practitioners and Grace volunteers, who come together annually to review funding applications.

The last Committee meeting was in May 2010 and members were thrilled with the number and quality of research funding applications. Members elected to support two exciting research projects with funding of over £40,000 over the next two years and details of these new projects, and past projects, can be seen below.

THANK YOU to all those who have given their time or donations to ensure we can raise the funds necessary to commission this exciting research, which will have a real impact on the lives of premature babies in Coventry and Warwickshire.

Quiet Time

A comparative study to determine nursing staff attitudes towards daily allocation of quiet time before and after implementation

A study was undertaken to establish nursing staff attitudes towards quiet time, both before and after implementation of a daily programme consisting of 2h quiet time a day on the Neonatal Intensive Care...

A Community Intervention to Support Parents with Premature Babies

Having a new baby is an exciting time for a family but when the baby is born early parents may experience intense worry and distress as their baby receives hospital care. This Grace Research Fund study aims to explore how parents are best supported when they make the transition from hospital to caring for their baby at home.  ...

Birth Problems In Obese Pregnant Women

Currently the UK is suffering from an obesity epidemic.  This means that about one in five pregnant women are obese.  Obesity can have serious consequences to the mother and her baby during labour. 

Alleviating Infant Pain

Until the late 1980s, we thought that the babies’ nervous systems to immature for them to feel pain. Since then, research has shown us that this is wrong. We know now that even tiny premature babies can feel pain.