NIAD study participant talks about her experience Research by members of the Department of Psychiatry (University of Cambridge) investigating the high risk for Alzheimer’s disease among people with Down’s syndrome was reported on the BBC Today programme. Ms Amy Forgacs, one of the participants talked about her commitment to research […]
NIHR Research for Patient Benefit (RfPB)- new Social Care call launched 9th May This initiative seeks to fund high quality research ideas which come from the front line of social care, and to support partnerships between social care researchers and practitioners. This applies across a wide spectrum of topic areas […]
£50 million awarded to the NIHR Research Design Service The Research Design Service East of England (RDS EoE) has been awarded a further five years funding by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR). The NIHR Research Design Service supports researchers to develop and design high quality research proposals for […]
New open-access resources for improvement and implementation King’s Improvement Science (KIS) – a team of specialist improvement scientists at NIHR CLAHRC South London – have developed a new suite of open-access resources designed to help improve health and social care services in a way that is systematic, evidence-informed and sustainable. […]
CLAHRC West job opportunity – Research Associate or Senior Research Associate in Health Services or Applied Health Research CLAHRC West are seeking to appoint a talented researcher with expertise in health services research, applied health research, epidemiology or medical statistics, interested in working on a range of research topics in the NIHR […]
PPI in Research Lead post Applications are invited for a full-time Patient & Public Involvement (PPI) Research Lead in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge, to join a research programme funded by the UK Medical Research Council to develop clinical informatics for mental health research. The University and its […]
Norfolk Mental Health Youth Services – extending provision to 25yrs Background Policy recommendations have often included reforming child and young people’s mental health services (CYP MH) to better reflect the needs of young people (e.g. Department of Health: Future in Mind). Programme of research A series of CLAHRC EoE Fellowship […]
Project title HEaLeD: Hospital Experiences of Adults with Learning Disabilities Type of research Mixed quantitative and qualitative methods Background and scientific rationale The HEALeD study uses mixed quantitative and qualitative methods to characterise the experiences of adults with learning disabilities (LD), their caregivers, and the healthcare workers who look after […]
Kate Granger Awards for Compassionate Care The call has gone out for entries for this year’s Kate Granger Compassionate Care Awards. The award categories are: For an individual working in the NHS or delivering NHS funded services For teams who are part of the NHS or who deliver NHS funded […]
Two PhD studentships jointly funded by CLAHRC North Thames and the School for Public Health Research The National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) North Thames and the NIHR School for Public Health Research (SPHR) based at UCL invite applications for […]