NIHR Webinar
 Date: Thursday 20th April 2023
Time: 13:00-14:00
Location: Online
National policy makers are a crucial audience for health and care researchers yet many researchers don't know how to connect with them.
This webinar from Professor Annette Boaz (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) will explain the important areas to consider when engaging with and sharing research knowledge with policy makers. It will help researchers to understand what they can offer policy makers and what knowledge mobilisation approaches are most useful. It will also discuss potential challenges and practical tips.
This webinar is for anyone in the health and care community wishing to engage with and share research knowledge with policy makers. By attending this webinar you should:
- Understand what researchers can offer policy makers
- Learn about the key areas to consider when engaging with and sharing research knowledge with policy makers
- Recognise the challenges of engaging with policy makers and provide practical tips to help researchers overcome these.
Primary Care Research - CRN New Horizons
A free event for health and care staff across the North East and North Cumbria who are interested in primary care partnerships.
 This event has been organised by the NIHR CRN North East and North Cumbria Primary Care Specialty Group and is an excellent opportunity for researchers to network, explore collaborative research projects, partnerships and share best practice.
Upon arrival there will be option for tea, coffee and breakfast pastries , followed by a series of presentations. There will be a buffet lunch provided once the event concludes at 1pm, as well as a mid-morning tea and coffee break that allows for more networking.
Primary care encompasses GPs, practice nurses, pharmacists and dentists; and in collaboration with researchers, they give patients the opportunity to contribute to research that can help address the problems that can impact the wellbeing of a modern day society. Studies within primary care settings can address: disease diagnosis and prevention, management of long term and chronic conditions and the treatment of common conditions, such as flu or tonsillitis. Primary care research also promotes a healthier lifestyle for patients, in turn, preventing ill-health in the future.
NIHR Funding Call: NIHR RfSC Social Care Competition 7: Now open for applications, Closes 21 June 2023
The Research for Social Care (RfSC) call is inviting research proposals that will generate evidence to improve, expand and strengthen the way social care is delivered for people who draw on social care support and services, carers, and the public.
RfSC research is expected to have a high degree of involvement from relevant users of social care and social care practitioners throughout the research.
RfSC welcomes high-quality proposals from researchers and practitioners that are focused on:
- Social care needs and relevant outcomes related to adult and/or children and young people’s social care (which could be quality of life, improvement of social care and other interrelated factors, as appropriate to the study, population etc.)
- Developing a more robust evidence base for current ways of working
- Developing and evaluating new ways of delivering social care
- Secondary data analysis, record linkage and reviews
- Research methods development
- Care users’ and carers’ circumstances and needs
- Those who deliver social care including unpaid carers and the staff and professionals involved in the delivery of social care e.g. social workers.
Fore more information click here
The submission deadline for applications is 1pm on 21 June 2023.
Nottingham Systematic Review Course
 The 2023 Nottingham Systematic Review Course will run 27-30 June.
The Nottingham Systematic Review Course is aimed at enabling participants to become proficient in developing and undertaking a Cochrane-style systematic review of interventions. As this is an introductory course, no previous knowledge of systematic reviewing is required.
Course venue: Monica Partridge Building, University of Nottingham, University Park Campus, Nottingham, NG7 2RD
Course fee
Full registration fee for the four days £1085.
A number of places will be available to University of Nottingham postgraduate students, staff, and Academic Clinical Fellows at a 20% discount £865.
The course fee includes all learning materials, refreshments and lunch every day.
For more information about the course & how to book click here.
 The First Steps into Research Programme is a great opportunity for someone to enhance the skills, gain the motivation, and develop the knowledge needed to create a pathway to a career in health and social care research. The programme gives its participants an understanding of what research is, and how it can be applied, through observing it in practice. Participants will also develop an understanding of the NIHR and the role it plays in delivering research, as well as expanding their own development to put them in a great position to establish a research-based career in the future.
The aim of this programme is to ignite your passion and interest in research and give you the motivation, skills and knowledge (about research) so that together we can create a pathway to a future career in health and social care research.
There is a cohort running for NHS (non-medics) in September 2023 and for Local authority, Charity Sector and Social care in January 2024, the programme runs for 4 months.
Applications are now open. Applications will close on the 1st of May 2023 and the 1st of October 2023 respectively.
To apply for this opportunity, please complete this application form or for more information please speak to Gail Creswick gail.creswick@nihr.ac.uk or 07789 746415.
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