13 Apr 2022
News and opportunities – 14 April 2022
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Please see below for our News and Opportunities update from 13 April 2022
| NEWS |
| New paper and animation: Co-production in sport and physical activity – what is it and why should we do it?
In this blog, Professor Brett Smith from Durham University’s Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences introduces a new resource than can guide researchers in the planning and delivery of co-produced work within sports and health sciences |
| ARC Director Professor Eileen Kaner joins the new Integrated Care Board (ICB) for the North East and North Cumbria
Professor Eileen Kaner has been appointed as a new non-executive director of the Integrated Care Board (ICB) for the North East and North Cumbria. |
| ICYMI: Pausing to reflect as we reach our mid-funding point
April 2022 marks the halfway point in the five-year funding of NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs). In this open letter, the ARC NENC Directors look back on the progress that has been made over the last two and a half years, despite challenging and unique circumstances. |
| NEW – Public Involvement Planner just launched by Newcastle University and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)
A new PPIE (Patient & Public Involvement and Engagement) Planner tool has been developed by the Faculty of Medical Sciences at Newcastle University, and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). It has been designed to help researchers of any stage to develop plans for patient and public involvement and engagement (PPIE). Researchers complete planning questions based on the research cycle to create a plan for their PPIE. The plan can then support grant applications and act as a guide for researchers. It is open for anyone to use. |
| EVENTS |
| Involving the public in literature reviews and qualitative research
Wednesday 18 May, 3pm – 5pm Hybrid event: Newcastle Helix and Online This workshop will discuss the practicalities of how to involve public advisors in healthcare research, sharing the experience from two research projects. The event will be useful for researchers at any stage and/or members of the public who are interested in public involvement and community engagement in health and social care research. |
| Fuse event – Exploring and understanding access to community mental health and substance use services for people experiencing homelessness
Thursday 9 June, 9.30 am – 11.30 am The Core, Newcastle Helix This event brings together Experts by Experience (people with lived experience of homelessness, mental ill-health, and/or substance use), service providers, and academic colleagues to discuss research findings from a study exploring access to community-based mental health and substance use services for people experiencing homelessness during the COVID-19 pandemic. The event will showcase the co-produced findings from interviews with 26 people experiencing homelessness and 19 people who provide support – and will include an opportunity to see the findings brought to life as colour illustrations. |
| Research methods – advice session
Wednesday 4 May, 1pm – 2pm, then the first Wednesday of every month This event offers an informal forum where ARC members and applied researchers from across the region can come to discuss their research projects and methods. Research Fellows from our Enabling Methodologies theme will be on hand to offer advice and guidance on all aspects of research methods. The Fellows have a wide range of expertise, from qualitative research, statistics, evidence synthesis, data linkage, health economics and mixed-methods research. |
| NIHR ARC Mental Health Implementation Network Launch Event – this is a national event led by ARC South London and open to anyone with an interest in mental health
27 April, 10am – 12.30pm Professor Sir Graham Thornicroft will be chairing this virtual event to introduce the national NIHR ARC Mental Health Implementation Network (MHIN) and its priority project areas. The event is open to all mental health stakeholders, including clinical and non-clinical academics and researchers, Experts by Experience including service users and members of the public, service providers, and representatives from the third sector. If you would like to attend, please register for the event here |
| Book now for the Health Service Research (HSR) UK Conference 2022
5-7 July 2022 |
| Creative methods in research with children and young people – delivered by our Supporting Children and Families theme.
Tuesday 3 May, 4pm This webinar will present an overview of creative and collaborative approaches to communicating and researching with children and young people in projects focused on producing materials for direct use in healthcare, and other projects concerned with exploring their perspectives on different aspects of their lives. |
| Integrating realist and economic evaluation methods to better understand and evaluate complex health and social care interventions – seminar series
Hosted by Northumbria University 27 April, 11 am – 12 pm Northumbria University’s Multidisciplinary Research Theme (MDRT) in Integrated Health and Social Care (IHSC) and Northumbria Realist Research Team Hub (NoRTH) present a seminar series at Northumbria University underpinning the following project: Integrating realist and economic evaluation methods (REEM) to better understand and evaluate the benefits and costs of complex health and social care interventions: why, what, and how? The first seminar takes place on 27 April. |
| Last chance to book: Inequalities and marginalised communities – networking event at Cumbria University
Wednesday 27 April, 12pm – 4pm including lunch A face-to-face networking event hosted by the University of Cumbria at their Carlisle campus. This is a free event with lunch, which will provide the opportunity to explore research from the Inequalities and Marginalised Communities theme. Presentations include introducing the ARC NENC, ARC Inequalities and Marginalised Communities Theme research within North Cumbria and the North East, and discussions on how to take the ARC NENC forward. |
| Academic Health Science Network (AHSN) NENC – Health and Wellbeing Symposium
Wednesday 11 May The Durham Centre Organised by the Growing Occupational Health and Wellbeing North Cumbria and Wellbeing programme, supported by the AHSN NENC This is a North East and North Cumbria-wide event, with a focus on staff health and wellbeing and occupational health. |
| Fuse Research Programme Meeting – Planning for a healthier future: Priorities and Practicalities
Wednesday 18 May, 9.30am to 12.30pm The Stephenson Lecture Theatre, Teesside University
Can we plan for a healthier future by intervening in the built environment?
This half day session will present perspectives on this topic from academics, practitioners and policy makers and will ask attendees to consider how we can effectively use planning to deliver a healthier future, and what the priorities and practicalities should be going forward.
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| The International Clinical Trials Day – Surgical Cancer Trials Event
Friday 20 May, 11 am – 2 pm Hybrid event: Online and at Newcastle University Delivered by the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation Clinical Trials Design Team, NIHR Research Design Service North East and North Cumbria, Newcastle Clinical Trials Unit, and Biostatistics Research Group. The event will consist of presentations, with time for questions, on the following subjects: Things I wish…., lessons from three clinical trials, The Funder Perspective, Innovative Trial Designs in Surgical Trials and The SarcoSIGHT Trial. Includes lunch and refreshments |
| Maternity and Neonatal Safety Improvement Network event
Delivered by the AHSN North East and North Cumbria Thursday 16 June, 9.30 am This event will focus on the work happening in the North East and North Cumbria. All are welcome. |
| TRAINING |
| Visit the Virtual College for training and development opportunities
Earlier this month we launched our new Virtual College Training Hub – which brings together hand-picked training and development opportunities for ARC NENC researchers, members and partners. |
| OTHER OPPORTUNITIES |
| Research Fellow (18 months) – NIHR ARC West Midlands Integrated Care in Youth Mental Health Theme
Based at the University of Warwick |
| Supporting researchers to apply for funding from the NIHR Public Health Research Programme – PHRADA
Public Health Research Applications and Design Advice (PHRADA) s provided by the NIHR RDS across England to support applicants to develop competitive applications to the NIHR Public Health Research (PHR) programme. It is currently supporting applications for the following NIHR PHR commissioned calls: · 21/605 Public health interventions led by or involving the police · 22/21 Interventions to support the health of unpaid carers · 22/22 Interventions to prevent eviction and homelessness · 22/23 Interventions to prevent male violence against women and girls If you are planning to apply for any of the above calls and would like support with your application, please contact PHRADA using this link |
| The Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) Programme is accepting stage one applications
The programme aims to commission high-quality, well-designed research which will be carried out by effective and efficient research teams, providing findings which meet the needs of NHS and Social Care managers and leaders. Follow the links below for more information |