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The General Paediatric Incubator
Building Research Capacity in Hospital & Community Child Health
The General Paediatric Incubator
The General Paediatric Incubator is one of a series of incubators established by the National Institute of Health and Care Research (NIHR) to build research capacity in priority areas.
It is led by Dr Katrina Cathie and Dr Lee Hudson and aims to address key issues and increase capacity for research in general and community paediatrics.
​This website offers advice and highlights opportunities to aspiring researchers in General Paediatrics.
About the Incubator
The General Paediatric Incubator, led by Dr Katrina Cathie and Dr Lee Hudson, is a NIHR-supported Incubator. We aim to address key issues and increase capacity for research in general and community paediatrics, focussing on health from newborn to late adolescence. We have brought together a range of key stakeholders across multidisciplinary teams (MDT), who share an ambition to improve and increase research in general and community child health. Our stakeholders include Children and Young People (CYP) and parent and carer groups, expertise across the age range, and key networks including General and Adolescent Paediatric Research Collaborative in the United Kingdom and Ireland (GAPRUKI) and British Association for Community Child Health (BACCH). The General Paediatrics Incubator sets a national blueprint for transforming paediatric research. Through collaboration, inclusivity, and structural reform, it aims to embed research into everyday clinical practice—creating a connected, empowered, and equitable community dedicated to improving child health outcomes across the UK. Overall, we aim to increase capacity and delivery of general and community child health research.
​NIHR Incubator Programme
The NIHR Incubators address areas where there is a need to build research capacity on a national level. NIHR provides some funding to enable key stakeholders to identify the barriers that exist and to suggest and implement, where possible, solutions to building research capacity in a sustainable and meaningful way. This initiative aims to encourage early career interest in target disciplines to build identifiable communities through networking and provision of bespoke training and development support. Incubators are virtual, managed across multiple sites and organised by discipline. They provide targeted high level career development support, led by experts in the field and supported by the NIHR. Incubators are bespoke to meet the needs of each area and are developing at different paces.
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This Incubator is supported by the National Institute for Health and Care Research. The views expressed on this website/webpage are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care.
