NIHR IAT clinical lectureship logic model

The Clinical Lectureship is a career development award included as part of the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Integrated Academic Training (IAT) Programme . As a career development award, it supports the core workstream ‘Attracting, training and supporting the best researchers... to tackle complex health and social care challenges’ from Best Research for Best Health: The Next Chapter. In turn, this will contribute to the overarching mission of the NIHR which is to improve the health and wealth of the nation.  The NIHR uses logic models to visually represent how a programme or research award is expected to achieve the outcomes, and resultant impact, that are defined during the development process of a programme or research award. A logic model then becomes an important tool in the process of evaluating a programme or award, which in turn guides a learning process of how a programme can be altered to better achieve its aims. The logic model is a linear flow diagram that reads from left to right, and is divided into the following sections: inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes and impact.