Recruitment open for NIHR Academy Associate Dean posts The NIHR Academy is recruiting two Associate Dean posts to support the existing NIHR Academy Dean with the development and delivery of the Infrastructure & Capacity Building Structures and Integrated Pathways programmes of work. Each role will focus on a dedicated programme […]
Public committee member opportunites at the NIHR The NIHR involves patients and members of the public in the work of the advisory committees that prioritise and recommend health and social care research applications for funding. Two of the national coordinating centres, Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) and NIHR Evaluation, Trials and […]
Arts and Humanities Interdisciplinary Seminar 2019: Exploring the Medical Humanities This interdisciplinary seminar series will critically interrogate the recent turn to the body in the humanities, and the orientation towards ‘medical humanities’. It is co-ordinated by Dr Harriet Cooper, who holds a PhD in medical humanities (critical disability studies) and […]
A toolkit for prison-university partnerships The Prisoners’ Education Trust and Prison University Partnerships in Learning (PUPiL) have published a toolkit to support the continued growth and development of partnerships between prisons and universities. It shares examples of successful models – including many that use creative arts – and is designed […]
Call for examples of arts and mental health projects From 2020 onwards, the Baring Foundation will move its arts funding from arts and older people to arts and mental health as a theme, and will publish a scoping study in January to launch this. Central to writing this study will […]
On the 26th February 2019, we celebrated the impact of our applied health and social care research projects and partnerships across the east of England at our CLAHRC EoE Showcase in Peterborough. Chaired by our Director Professor Peter Jones, the event bought together researchers, health and social care professionals, patients and the […]
NIHR Academy competition launches 1. Competition: PCAF: HEE/NIHR Pre-Doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowships Description: The HEE/NIHR ICA Pre-doctoral Clinical Academic Fellowship (PCAF) funds personalised programmes of academic training that will equip awardees with the skills and experience to access doctoral level funding and dedicated time to prepare an application for a competitive, peer-reviewed […]
Dementias 2019 Annual Conference. A blog by Felix Clay I’m now at the end of my six month NIHR CLAHRC EoE funded Academic Apprenticeship. As part of my placement I’ve led a systematic review of the literature on the use of Virtual Reality (VR) technology in the assessment, understanding and treatment […]
Recruiting – Participatory Appraisal project The Eastern Academic Health Science Network is recruiting for a new Patient and Public Voice initiative. This exciting new project will offer free training in participatory appraisal techniques (expenses paid) and reimbursement for individuals to run local participation workshops to help inform and improve health […]