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Do you have an interest in mental health? If so, we’d like to invite you to join a new Special Interest Group for Mental Health in our region.

The purpose of the group is to join-up researchers with practitioners and public members, to help us share ideas and new developments related to an integrated approach to mental health research and care delivery.

As a member of the group, you’ll play an important part in helping to shape research and care in key areas of mental health concern in our region – including homelessness, suicide prevention, emergency care and mental health in schools.

Find out more and register to join us for the first meeting on 13 June.

It’s Mental Health Awareness Week this week – delivered by the Mental Health Foundation – which offers an opportunity to put mental health into the spotlight.

Our region has the third-highest rate of common mental health problems for adults in the country, and a high incidence of severe mental health conditions. It also has the highest rates of adolescent self-harm and the highest levels of heavy alcohol use and substance-related deaths in the country.

As an Applied Research Collaboration (ARC), we have a strong focus on early intervention to prevent mental health problems, as well as supporting those most in need – who often experience multiple deprivation and marginalisation.

We’re also working to expand mental health research & capacity in our region. This includes supporting mental health practitioners and researchers working in key areas of concern – such as homelessness, suicide prevention, emergency care and mental health in schools.

Read more about our work around mental health – including the mental health projects we’re delivering and supporting.

The Fifth Fuse International Conference on Knowledge Exchange in Public Health is a two-day conference taking place – with a theme of ‘Learning from setbacks and successes’.

The conference aims to create a safe space in which academics, practitioners and policy makers can reflect together on the potential threats to successful knowledge exchange, in order to develop important lessons on how knowledge exchange practices and research can be improved, turning setbacks into successes.

Who should attend?

·       Public health professionals and researchers

·       Academics – PhD students and early career researchers through to senor academics

·       Local practice partners, including regional and national directors of Public Health

·       Public Health organisations

·       International partner organisations

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The Multidisciplinary Research Theme (MDRT) in Integrated Health and Social Care (IHSC) at Northumbria University are hosting a seminar series around the 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?’

Book now for the second and third seminars – details below

Seminar 2: Thursday 19 May, 11 am – 12 pm

Researching community-led initiatives, health and wellbeing – where are we and where are we headed?​ Drawing on the early stages of the Common Health Assets project to draw out challenges, methods and progress.

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Seminar 3: Wednesday 22 June, 11 am – 12 pm

‘What is the point of the context-mechanism-outcome-configuration?’

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 Wednesday 18 May, 1pm – 2pm

 Delivered by ARC South West Peninsula (online)

 Websites that give us the lowdown on a range of interventions to improve child and youth well-being have grown over the last decade or so. Common issues covered are the prevention of crime, bullying, maltreatment, substance misuse and poor mental health, with typical interventions including youth mentoring, group-based parent training, family therapy and school-based life skills lessons. This session reflects on their strengths and limitations.

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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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9 June, 10 am – 4pm

Newcastle University

Health literacy is about people being able to access, understand, and use information about health, yet low health literacy is a common problem in our region. This event is to share thoughts, plans and activities to build health literacy in communities in the North East and Yorkshire areas of England.

Aimed at those from health and social care, voluntary sector, local libraries, universities, school education and community engagement who want to come together to raise awareness, take action and advocate for improving access to information and health literacy across our communities.

This event is supported by the NIHR ARC North East and North Cumbria

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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. Delivered in partnership with the ARC North East and North Cumbria.

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13 June, 11 am – 12.15 pm (online)

NHIP will hosting a free online event on 13 June to celebrate the two-year anniversary of the partnership. At the event NHIP will share ambitions for 2025 and provide progress updates on a number of initiatives, including:

• NHIP academy
• NHIP fellowships
• Patient and citizen engagement

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Friday 17 June, 9 am – 3.30 pm

Newcastle University

This is an event for researchers and all professionals in primary care to share new findings, ideas and networking.

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If you have any questions, please email  [email protected]

Wednesday 15 June, 10 am – 12.30 pm (online)

This event will explore how to reach and engage with diverse older population and those that are seldom heard. It will be delivered by the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration’s Healthy Ageing, Dementia and Frailty National Priority Programme.

The programme’s public involvement team will be sharing approaches and experiences from the Ageing Dementia and Frailty theme and guest speakers will share their innovative approaches and learning from engaging voices from our communities.

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Developing effective connections between research, policy and practice

7, 21 and 28 June – online (free to register and attend)

The aim of this event series is to grow understanding of intermediary organisations and share practical insights from a range of sectors and countries.

The series is aimed at anybody with an interest in intermediary organisations – in the public sector, NGOs, funding bodies, think-tanks, and universities.

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6 July 2022, 1.30pm to 2.45pm (online)

Aimed at   researchers applying for NIHR Fellowship Awards and staff accountable for public involvement.

Discover how to incorporate your public involvement programme successfully into your research, and gain insights from fellow researcher and public involvement representatives that you can apply to your programme of work.

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Last 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.

Take a look and browse the latest courses and resources

Applications are invited for NICE Committee Chairs. A Committee Chair ensures that committees take full account of the evidence in developing recommendations and/or quality statements, and considers the analysis and interpretation of the evidence prepared by the NICE team.

Find out more and apply by 19 May

We’re looking for a talented and ambitious Research Assistant/Research Associate or Senior Research Associate to work within our ARC and across all ARCs to support our national leadership work in Health Inequalities.

The post is based at Newcastle University.

Find out more and apply by 26 May

Applications are invited for a Research Associate or Senior Research Associate to work on a project funded via the North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) and based at Newcastle University.

The role is linked to the ‘Prevention including Behavioural Risk Factors’ Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) Consortium.

The post holder will join the ARC national priority team evaluating the Enhanced Weight Management offer (the BWel project).

Find out more and apply by 20 May

NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR)

Applications are invited for a talented and ambitious Research Associate or Senior Research Associate to work within the NIHR School for Public Health Research as part of the national Health Inequalities programme.

Find out more and apply by 26 May

To support a project exploring Criminal Exploitation and Serious Violence targeted at vulnerable people in Newcastle.  The project is being delivered in partnership with Newcastle City Council and Northumbria Police and with colleagues from other local universities.

Find out more and apply by 30 May

The NIHR School for Public Health Research have now launched their fellowships competition, full details can be found here.

The closing date for applications to both schemes is 12 noon Monday 27th June 2022.